Previously he was an Assistant Professor and the Blitman Endowed Chair Professor at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Ukkusuri leads the transportation network mobility research group at Purdue that focuses on interdisciplinary work in real-time traffic networks and telematics, freight transportation and logistics, disaster management and stochastic traffic network optimization and simulation. Dr. Ukkusuri is the Area Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, Overview Paper Editor of Transportation Research Part-C and the Chair of the ITS SIG at INFORMS. He has received numerous awards in transportation, most recently, the Council of University Transportation Centers New Faculty Award for outstanding research and leadership. His research has been funded in the last few years by five NSF awards and New York, New Jersey, New York City, Indiana and U.S. departments of transportation.