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New Cluster Hires
Transportation is a cornerstone of modern civilization, from global travel for international business meetings to local travel for essential needs like food or medical care. The University of Tennessee, with its esteemed faculty, is at the forefront of improving mobility through research and innovation. Our affiliated faculty, working in collaboration with the Center for Transportation Research (CTR), a Tickle College of Engineering division, bring their expertise to bear on these crucial issues.
The Institute for Future Mobility (FMI) has hired researchers to fill four of six cluster positions. The four researchers will form a collaborative community cluster led by Professor Kevin Heaslip, the Center for Transportation Research Director. Professor Heaslip: “These new hires will complement the faculty who are already part of the University of Tennessee Knoxville research staff and the FMI cluster community.”
Brad Day, Associate Vice Chancellor Research & Innovation Initiatives Research Integrity & Assurance, sees this cluster hire initiative as “raising the bar to move the future mobility gateway to reach innovation levels through this cross-disciplinary research approach at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.”
More about the new hires:
Andrew Balthrop
Department of Supply Chain Management / Baker School of Public Policy & Public Affairs Research area: electric vehicle connectivity, automation, and policy. Dr. Balthrop has worked in the trucking industry and continues researching ways to create zero carbon emission multimode transportation options through innovation and policy.
Hongyu Zheng
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering research area: electrification, autonomous, and shared transportation. Dr. Zheng approaches this research area from a system analysis perspective, examining how innovations in future mobility will affect people’s daily lives.
JiangBiao He
Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
Research area: vehicle electrification and electric motors. Dr. He’s research has focused on advanced power electronic converters and motor-drive systems, targeting zero-emission transportation electrifications and e-mobility, renewable energies, microgrids, and other cutting-edge electric power applications.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research area: multimodal freight transportation with a focus on sustainable development systems. Dr. Calderon Quevedo’s research focuses on the demand side of supply chain transportation, studying the consumer buying trends as these relate to the impact of future mobility technologies.
More information about the University of Tennessee cluster hires initiatives can be found here. The additional two cluster hire positions will be posted through the Future Mobility Institute website.
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