He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2002. His research interests are in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, vehicle routing, autonomous vehicles, control of dynamical systems, logistics and optimization. He is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Dr. Jula has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems since 2010. He is currently a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems and the treasurer of the IEEE Susquehanna Section.