He is also the associate chairman of the Civil Engineering Department and the Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellow in Engineering. He has expertise in transportation-system analysis and travel-demand modeling. Dr. Bhat has done work for a number of metropolitan planning organizations on improvements in their travel-modeling procedures, including Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston, and Seattle. He is chair of the National Research Council Committee on Passenger Travel Demand Forecasting and is a member of the National Research Council Committee for Review of Travel Demand Modeling by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.