The ITS Outstanding Research Award is given to those who have made significant and outstanding contributions to research in ITS-related fields. This award was established to recognize, promote, stimulate and publicize major research contributions and outstanding achievements in ITS-related fields.
Description
For those who have made significant and outstanding contributions to research in ITS related fields. This award is established to recognize, promote, stimulate and publicize major research contributions and outstanding achievement in ITS related fields. (Established in 2010)
Prize
$1,000 and certificate of award.
Eligibility
Candidates should be active members of IEEE as well as IEEE ITSS Society. For group nominations, the lead member of the group should be an active member of IEEE as well as IEEE ITSS Society.
Basis for Judging
Significance, impact, innovation, and quality of research work. Each factor will be ranked on a scoring scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the best and 10 being the worst. The scores from each selection committee member are collected and the candidate receiving the lowest average score is the winner.
Presentation
ITSS annual ITS conference.
Past Awardees
| Year | Awardee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Yisheng Lv Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences For contributions to large-scale transportation system modeling, prediction, and control. |
| 2022 | Miguel Ángel Sotelo University of Alcalá For contributions in the field of Autonomous Driving and Road Users’ Behavior Prediction |
| 2021 | Hesham A. Rakha Virginia Tech Contributions to large-scale transportation system optimization, modeling and assessment |
| 2020 | Kazuya Takeda Nagoya University Contributions to Data‐centric Driving Behavior Modeling |
| 2019 | Dariu Gavrila TU Delft |
| 2018 | N/A |
| 2017 | Azim Eskandarian Virginia Tech Contributions in Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Machines |
| 2016 | Matthew Barth University of California, Riverside Contributions to Environmentally-Focused Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| 2015 | Ümit Özgüner The Ohio State University |
| 2014 | Nathan Gartner University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| 2013 | Mohan Trivedi University of California at San Diego, USA |
| 2012 | Petros Ioannou University of Southern California Citation: For Research Contributions in Advanced Vehicle Control Systems and Integration with traffic |
| 2011 | Fei-Yue Wang CAST (Complex Adaptive Systems for Transportation) Lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| 2010 | Sesbastian Thrun Computer Science Department, Stanford University |
| 2009 | Pravin Varaiya |
| 2008 | Chelsea (Chip) C. White III |
| 2007 | Markos Papageorgiou |
| 2006 | Robert Fenton |
