Alexandre Alahi is an associate professor at EPFL leading the Visual Intelligence for Transportation laboratory (VITA). Before joining EPFL in 2017, he was a Post-doc and Research Scientist at Stanford University. His research lies at the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics applied to transportation & mobility. He works on the theoretical challenges and practical applications of socially-aware Artificial Intelligence, i.e., systems equipped with perception and social intelligence. His research enables systems to detect, track, and predict human motion dynamics at all scales. In 2022&2023, Alexandre was recognized as the top 100 Most Influential Scholar in Computer Vision over the past 10 years. 

Dr. Yafeng Yin is Donald Cleveland Collegiate Professor of Engineering and Donald Malloure Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He works on transportation systems analysis and modeling, and has published over 150 refereed papers in leading academic journals. He currently serves as Area Editor of Transportation Science and Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological and was the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies between 2014 and 2020. Dr. Yin has received recognition from different institutions, including the Stella Dafermos Best Paper Award, Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award, and Kikuchi-Karlaftis Best Paper Award from Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Yin received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2002, his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996 and 1994 respectively. 

Cathy Wu is an Associate Professor at MIT in LIDS, CEE, and IDSS. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and B.S. and M.Eng. from MIT, all in EECS, and completed a Postdoc at Microsoft Research. Her research aims to leverage machine learning to solve hard optimization problems for next-generation mobility systems. She is broadly interested in leveraging modern computing and AI to advance decision making. Cathy has received a number of awards, including the NSF CAREER, PhD dissertation awards, and publications with distinction. She serves on the Board of Governors for the IEEE ITSS and is an Area Chair for ICML and NeurIPS. She is also helping spearhead efforts towards reproducible research in transportation.

Dr. Chandra R. Bhat is the Joe J. King Endowed Chair Professor in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and the Director of the US DOT National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD). He has been a pioneer in the formulation and use of statistical and econometric methods to analyze human choice behavior for transportation and urban policy design. Dr. Bhat currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research – Part B, and is the current President of the Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Ludovic Leclercq is a Research Director (eq. Full Professor) at Université Gustave Eiffel (France). He is also a Full Professor (part-time) at TU Delft (Netherlands), holding a chair in Transportation Systems Modelling in the Era of New Mobility. His research interests correspond to multiscale and multimodal dynamic traffic modeling and the related environmental externalities. Smart cities, mobility as a service, sustainable and reliable transportation systems are some of the applications his researches are targeting. He is the current chair (2021-2024) of the committee "Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics" ACP50 of the TRB. He is also a member of the international advisory committee of ISTTT. He has co-authored 114 publications in top peer-reviewed journals, has supervised 15 PhD and is currently supervising 7 PhD students. In 2015, he was awarded for 5 years an ERC consolidator grant in Social Science and Humanities. In 2020, he was awarded the ‘Grand Prix de l’Université de Lyon’, a career award for my achievement in the Transportation field.

Elisabetta Cherchi is Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi and Global Network Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice and past Associate Editor of Transportation. She is the Chair of the Steering Committee of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), as well as past Secretary and Treasurer of the IATBR. Her research interest is in modelling transport consumers' behaviour and decision process especially for sustainable transport modes and transport innovations. Her research spans from data collection (including the use of immersive virtual reality environments), demand modelling, with particular reference to discrete choice analysis, demand forecasting, user benefit evaluation., and behavioural background of how individuals take decision.

Markos Papageorgiou was a (tenured) Professor of Automation at Technical University of Munich (1988-1994). Since 1994 he has been Professor (since 2021 Professor Emeritus) at the Technical University of Crete. Since 2021 he has an appointment at Ningbo University. He was Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Rome La Sapienza and Tsinghua University. His research interests include automatic control and optimisation theory and applications to traffic and transportation systems, water systems and further areas. He is Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IFAC. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research – Part C (2005-2012). He received several awards, including the 2020 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award, and two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants.