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Soyoung Ahn, PhD

Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madision, Wisconsin, United States

Soyoung Ahn is a Professor and an Associate Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. She was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University from 2006 to 2013. She is an expert in analysis and modeling of human-driven and connected automated vehicle flow, and traffic control using emerging technologies. Her research involves 1) understanding the fundamental characteristics of various traffic flow phenomena through observation and modeling, 2) linking those traffic phenomena to individual driver/vehicle characteristics, and 3) applying this knowledge to develop vehicle and traffic control strategies using emerging technologies such as the connected autonomous vehicle technology.

Ahn is an Executive Director for Mid-America Freight Coalition, a regional organization involving 10 Midwestern states that cooperates in the planning, operation, preservation, and improvement of transportation infrastructure. She is also an Associate Director for the Center for Transportation, Equity, Decisions and Dollars (CTEDD), a USDOT Tier-1 University Transportation Center. She is a former chair of Transportation Research Board (TRB)’s Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics Committee (formerly AHB45 and now ACP50). She is an elected member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Traffic and Transportation Theory (ISTTT), a premier gathering for the world’s transportation and traffic theorists. She serves on several editorial roles: an Associate Editor for Transportation Research Part C, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Transportation Research Record; and an Editorial Board Editor for Transportation Research Part B. She has received several prestigious awards, including NSF CAREER, Best Paper in Traffic Flow Theory (given by TRB AHB45), and Cunard Award (a best paper with young first author given by TRB’s Operations Section).

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