Dr. Kun Xie receives IEEE ITSC Best Dissertation Award
C2SMART researcher Dr. Kun Xie recently received the IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award for his PhD dissertation titled “New Opportunities in Urban Safety Analytics Using Advanced Quantitative Methods and Big Data”. He was invited to attend the award ceremony in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (http://www.itsc2017.org/) in Yokohama, Japan in October 2017, where he presented his dissertation.
The IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in any intelligent transportation system (ITS) area that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award is established to encourage doctoral research that combines theory and practice, makes in-depth technical contributions, or is interdisciplinary in nature, having the potential to contribute to the ITS society and broaden the ITS topic areas from either the methodological or application perspectives.
Congratulations to Dr. Xie!