PTV Young Talent: A key segment in our Academic Community
PTV Young Talents is a community platform for young professionals!
Here you can get to know those young professionals and students who learned and used our software solutions in their academic projects. They also participated in conferences where PTV Group is present and attended our wide range of PTV Academic Community activities & events. Thus, they are all licensed on our PTV software tools!
Are you a professional in the mobility field looking for new talents? Then, you are in the right section of the PTV Academic Community! Here we have some of the promising leaders in the discipline, who graduated from PTV, and are experts in simulation.
Get to know them and discover their specializations beyond PTV products.
"I believe myself a PTV Ambassador who had the support from PTV Group to find my career path while I was a student. Now, as the Product Manager for Academia and Research, I want to devote this position to promoting and creating a sense of belonging to a Community for all and each of our Young Talents around the globe.
This section within the PTV Academic Community is reserved for you, students and young professionals, to improve your opportunities to find your next professional step in the ladder of mobility and transportation, to become leaders in your field of expertise."
Kamar Amine
Graduate Research Assistant @ Lehman Center for Transportation Research (LCTR)
Ph.D. Candidate @ Florida International University
PTV Vissim, Simulation modeling, calibration, traffic operations, traffic mobility, data analytics, clustering analysis
Peter Yu
Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Mississippi
Engineering Peer Educator @ University of Washington College of Engineering
PTV Vissim, PTV Visum, PTV Vistro, Traffic operations and simulation, highway design, 3D modeling
Matteo Saracco
Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
PTV Vissim, transportation planning, sustainability, multimodal network modeling, GIS data analysis
Christina Quaassdorff
Researcher for the European Marie Curie project IRTEMS @ European Commission
Postdoctoral Researcher @ Technical University of Madrid
PTV Vissim, traffic simulation, environmental engineering, air quality, emission estimation
Hüseyin Ayan & Kuldeep Kavta
Ph.D. Candidate @ Newcastle University & Postdoc Researcher @ TU Delft
Hüseyin: Public Transportation, metro, light rail transit, choice modeling, travel behavior
Kuldeep: Travel behavior modeling, sustainable transportation, transport policy
Scott Young & Winnie Zhuang
Master's students @ University of California, Berkeley
Scott: intelligent transportation systems, PTV Vissim, traffic impact analysis
Winnie: airports, parking, toll booths, complete streets, pedestrians
Renan Favero
Research Assistant @ University of Florida
Traffic Operations, Microsimulation, Autonomous Vehicles, Car-following Models
Hossein Tavana
Graduated from Ulster University in Fire Safety Engineering
Crowd Dynamics, Pedestrian Simulation, Evacuation Modelling, Fire Safety Engineering, Transportation Modelling
Antonio Pascale
Ph.D. Student @ Universidade de Aveiro
Road Traffic Noise Models; Noise Emission Models; Vehicle Nose-Specific Power
Wattana Laosinwattana & Nattakarn Surangsrirout
Ph.D. Students & Research Assistants @ Florida International University
Data Analysis, Traffic Engineering
Dong Nian
Ph.D. Student @ University of Cincinnati
Traffic Safety, Traffic Control, Data Analysis, Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
James Umphress
Master’s student @ Oregon State University
Transportation Engineering, Roadway Design, Materials Engineering, Concrete Design
Karl Hofer
Project Assistant @ Technische Universitat Graz
Helen Thomas
Student @ Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Gopi Nair Suresh Kumar
@ Georgia Institute of Technology
Slavica Gavric
Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Pittsburgh
Machine Learning, Adaptive Traffic Control, Traffic Signals, Urban Air Mobility
Xuehao (Jason) Zhai
Ph.D. Candidate @ Imperial College of London
Explainable AI, Traffic Anomaly Detection, Traffic Signal Simulation, GIS
Zheng Xu
Ph.D. Candidate @ Monash University
CAVs, AVs-behavioral analysis, Human-in-the-Loop, Traffic Micsorimulation, VR, Safety
MohamadReza Haghani
Ph.D. Candidate @ University of Louisville
Traffic Simulation, Driving Simulator, Machine Learning, Road Safety
Lewen Wang
Ph.D. Candidate @ Beijing Jiaotong University
Passenger Travel Patterns, Demand-Responsive Transit, Route Optimization, Air Quality
Yuxin Wang
Ph.D. Candidate @ Beijing Jiaotong University
Air quality Evaluation, Transportation Environment Health Impact, Route Optimization, Active Sustainable Modes
Pelumi Abiodun
Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant @ Morgan State University
Traffic Scheduling, Resilience, Dynamic Signalization, Pedestrain Safety, Ai/ML modelling
Vijayalakshmi K Kumarasamy & Sima Ashayer
Ph.D. Candidate @ University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Both: AI, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Data Analysis
Mostafa Soltaninejad
Ph.D. Candidate @ Florida International University
Road Safety, Traffic Engineering, Simulation, Operations
Yasmine Al Moghrabi
Ph.D. Candidate @ Florida International University
Simulation Modeling, ITS, Road Safety, Active modes, Transportation Data Analytics
Euntak Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher @ Université Gustave Eiffel
CAVs, Traffic Flow Theory, Road Safety, Microsimulation, Travel Behaviors, Deep Learning, Machine Learning
Afrida Raida
Ph.D. Candidate @ University of Virginia
Pedestrian Safety, Public Transportation, Sustainable Transportation, Micromobility
Adebayo Olude
Ph.D. Candidate @ Morgan State University
Sustainability, Microsimulation Modeling, Data Analytics, ArcGIS Pro, Resilience
Leqi Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate @ Beijing Jiaotong University
CAVs, Energy Consumption Modeling, Emissions Analysis, Eco-Driving Behavior, EVs
Attilio Reginato
Research Assistant @ Florida Atlantic University
Freight, Signal Phasing and Timing, Public Transportation, Rural Mobility
Mahgam Tabatabaei
Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Kansas
Traffic Engineering, Traffic Flow Modeling, Driver Behavior, Traffic Safety
Cornelius Darko
Ph.D. Candidate @ Morgan State University
AVs-Safety, Resilience, Pedestrian Safety, Traffic Modeling, Road Design
Soheila Saeidi
Ph.D. Candidate @ Florida Atlantic University
Freight Mobility, Safety, Driver Behavior, Integrated Mobility
Stephen Osafo-Gyamfi
Ph.D. Candidate @ University of Mississippi
Alternative Intersections & Roundabouts, Pedestrian Safety, Construction Management & Administration, Signal Optimization
Become a PTV Young Talent
As a student or young professional, there are several ways to become a PTV Young Talent member:
- Find the suitable PTV Software solution for your academic project diploma and reference it
- Visit us at our booth at any of the several conferences and fairs we are present at
- Attend any of our PTV Academic Events
- Join and interact at any of our LinkedIn groups