Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, where he is Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center, and Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has over 35 years of professional, academic and research experience in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, multimodal systems modeling and optimization, pedestrian and crowd dynamics, traffic science, and real-time operation of transportation and distribution systems. He is past editor-in-chief of Transportation Science, senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, founding associate editor of Transportation Research C, and associate editor of Transportation Research Record. He is a past president of INFORMS Transportation Science Section, and a past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the American University of Beirut in 2006, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award of IEEE in 2010, the Transportation Research Board’s Thomas Deen Distinguished Lectureship in 2016, and the inaugural Martin Beckmann Transformative Research in Network Modeling in 2019. He was elected Emeritus member of the Transportation Research Board committees on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior, Transportation Network Modeling and Traveler Behavior and Values.