EDUCATION Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz B.Sc. Civil Engineering (GPA 15.08/20) RESEARCH INTERESTS

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1 , PhD, EIT Postdoctoral Research/Teaching Associate, Border Intermodal Gateway (BIG) Transportation Lab Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems (CTIS) (A member of National and Regional University Transportation Center) 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, Tel: +1 (915) Website: LinkedIn: EDUCATION Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering (GPA 4.00/4.00) Dissertation: A Lane Changing Decision Model based on Fuzzy Inference System Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Cheu K. N. Toosi University of Technology Tehran M.Sc. Civil Engineering (Road & Transportation Engineering) (GPA 17.39/20) Thesis: Allocating of Public Parking in Urban Networks using Fuzzy and ArcGIS Advisor: Dr. Mansour Hadji Hosseinlou Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz B.Sc. Civil Engineering (GPA 15.08/20) RESEARCH INTERESTS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Smart Cities Autonomous Driving ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Integrated Corridor Management Freight Transportation Urban and Rural Transportation Planning Facility Locations Economics in Transportation Management Transportation and Air Quality Optimization Methods for Transportation Problems 2017-Now Development of a Metric to Evaluate the Impacts of Transportation Environment on Community Health Develop a metric which can be served as a decision support tool for engineers, planners, public health officers and other decision makers to evaluate the health status of a community. Funded by USDOT ($7M) Supervisor: USDOT Identify Project Criteria for ITS Deployment in Work Zone Designing of preliminary guidelines to be used for the assessment of work zone projects in order to deploy ITS technologies Supervisor: TXDOT Smart Cities Identification of Research Needs for Smart Classroom Buildings, Smart Bridges and Smart Bus Systems Funded by National University Transportation Center

2 Integrated Corridor Management Describe Traffic Elements, Travel Characteristics and Operational Conditions Funded by USDOT Supervisor: Texas A&M Transportation Institute Traffic Counts in El Paso Funded by Quantum Engineering Consultant Inc A Lane Changing Decision Model based on Fuzzy Inference System Funded by Warehouse Location and Freight Attraction in the Greater El Paso Region Funded by National University Transportation Center and MPO Allocating of Public Parking in Urban Networks using Fuzzy Logic and ArcGIS Funded by Tehran Municipality K. N. Toosi University of Technology Tehran Supervisor: Dr. Mansour Hadji Hosseinlou ACADEMIC and TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 2017 Now Postdoctoral Research/Teaching Associate Border Intermodal Gateway (BIG) Transportation Lab Graduate Research Assistant Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems Graduate Teaching Assistant Graduate Research Assistant Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant K. N. Toosi University of Technology Tehran Graduate Teaching Assistant Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz WORK EXPERIENCE 2017-Now Civil Engineer-Transportation & Environment Funded by USDOT ($7M) Develop a metric which can be served as a decision support tool for engineers, planners, public health officers and other decision makers to evaluate the health status of a community Transportation Engineer AIA Engineers, Ltd. San Antonio, Texas, USA. Designer of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)

3 Civil Engineer-Transportation Designing of preliminary guidelines to be used for the assessment of work zone projects in order to deploy ITS technologies Civil Engineer-Transportation Designer of GIS maps & ICM reports of Traffic Elements, Travel Characteristics and Operational Conditions Civil Engineer-Traffic Funded by Quantum Engineering Consultant Inc. in Texas Counting vehicles to design roads of a land development project Civil Engineer-Transportation Funded by National University Transportation Center Analyze current and future warehouse and distribution center locations along the El Paso-Juarez border region Transportation Project Engineer Rah Ahan Rah Co. Tehran, Iran. Designer of Road Pavement, Transportation and Expert of Traffic Studies Supervisor Engineer Rahdar Sanaat Co. Tehran, Iran Supervisor engineer of infrastructures including street, highway, grading and drainage HONOR SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP & AWARDS 2017 Recognized as 2017 Outstanding Student in University of Texas at El Paso 2017 Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Certificate 2016 President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) UTEP Student Chapter 2016 TRB Travel Grants, University of Texas at El Paso, Graduate School 2016 TRB Travel Grants, University of Texas at El Paso, College of Engineering 2015 Cotton Memorial Graduate Fellowship, University of Texas at El Paso, Graduate School 2014 Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) 2013 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) PUBLICATIONS Journal Papers Balal, E., Cheu, R. L. (2017). Modeling Lane Changing Decisions: Comparative Evaluation of Fuzzy Inference System, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Feed-Forward Neural Network in the Modeling of Lane Changing Decisions, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Balal, E., Valdez, G., Miramontes, J., Mercado, M. & Cheu, R. L. (2017). Urban Transportation Network Resilience: Comparative Evaluation of Measures, submitted to Journal of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. Gold, L., Balal, E., Horak, T. & Cheu, R. L. (2017). Health Screening of International Air Travelers during a Pandemic, submitted to Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. Osiris, J., Balal, E. & Hernandez, S. (2017). Modeling Route Choice Criteria from Home to Major Streets: A Discrete Choice Approach, submitted to International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology. Wang, H., Cheu, R. L. & Balal, E. (2016). Operations of electric taxis to serve advance reservations by trip chaining: Sensitivity analysis on network size, customer demand and number of charging stations International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 5(2), Balal, E., Cheu, R. L. & Sarkodie-Gyan, T. (2016). A binary decision model for discretionary lane changing move based on fuzzy inference system, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 67, Balal, E., Cheu, R. L., Gyan-Sarkodie, T. & Miramontes, J. (2014). Analysis of Discretionary Lane Changing Parameters on Freeways, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 3(3),

4 Hosseinlou, M. H., Balal, E., Massahi, A. & Ghiasi, I. (2012). Developing optimal zones for urban parking spaces by Arc GIS and AHP, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 5(11), Hosseinlou, M., Balal. E. (2011). The Study of the Effects of Street Parking on the Flow of Urban Networks Traffic Using Aimsun Software, Journal of Traffic Management Studies, 6, Conference Papers Gold, L., Balal, E., Horak, T. & Cheu, R. L. (2018). Screening of Infectious Disease among International Travelers at Airports, Proceedings of 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Vechione, M., Balal, E. & Cheu, R. L. (2018). Comparisons of Mandatory and Discretionary Lane Changing Behavior on Freeways, Proceedings of 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Balal, E., Valdez, G., Miramontes, J., Mercado, M., & Cheu, R. L. (2017). Urban Transportation Network Resilience: Comparative Evaluation of Measures, Proceedings of 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Balal. E., Cheu. R. L. (2017). Comparative Evaluation of Fuzzy Inference System, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Feed-Forward Neural Network in the Modeling of Lane Changing Decisions, Proceedings of 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Balal. E., Cheu. R. L. & Gyan-Sarkodie.T. (2016). A Lane Changing Decision Model based on Fuzzy Inference System, Proceedings of 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Balal. E., Hosseinlou. M. (2010). Checking the Effects of Street Parking on the Flow of Urban Networks Traffic Using Aimsun software, Proceedings of 10th International Conference of Traffic and Transportation Engineering of Tehran, Iran, Frequent Reviewer of the Following Journal(s) and Conferences International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (IJTST) Sensors Journal Transportation research Board (TRB) Research Reports and proposals El Paso I-10 Integrated Corridor Management, Technical Memorandum Task 6 and 7, March Involved in writing a full proposal about Smart City and Transportation, Involved in writing a full proposal about Transportation, Environment, and Community Health, Involved in writing a full proposal about Connected Vehicle Safety in Rural Areas, Research Challenges toward the Implementation of Smart Cities in the United States, December Warehouse Location and Freight Attraction in the Greater El Paso Region, December RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION (In Progress) Eduardo Torres, M.S.C.E. student. Graduated August Jessica Miramontes, M.S.C.E. student. Graduated August Mariana Mercado, B.S.C.E. student. Graduated May Eri Ramirez, B.S.C.E. student. Graduated May 2017.

5 ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENTS Designed a 14 stories steel building in details (B.S. Thesis) Designed a highway in details (B.S. Project) Designed a 11 stories concrete building in details (B.S. Thesis) Optimum location of urban parking using ArcGIS and traffic analyzing of urban networks (M.S. Thesis) Designed a highway includes none equivalent level crossway (Directional, Ramp and Tunnel) Did a research on different types of parking Translated Chapter 5, 6, 7- Yang H. Hung; Pavement Analysis and Design; Second Edition Evaluated the construction cost of a building Supervised a construction project by MS Project Software Conducted a survey for fuzzy logic research Simulated urban networks of district 1 of Tehran in AIMSUN & VISSIM Presented two papers in Research Expo in 2014 and 2015 Presented a paper in 2016 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Presented two papers in 2017 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Friend of TRB Committee ABJ70 AI & Advanced Computing Techniques Friend of TRB Committee AHB45 Traffic Flow Theory Member of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) SKILLS Teaching Engineering Economy, Mechanics of Materials, Highway Geometric Design, Transportation Engineering, Urban Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering, Infrastructural Engineering, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Engineering, Highway Engineering, Fuzzy Logic. Computer General & Programming: Statistical: Engineering: MS Office & MATLAB Minitab, SPSS, MS Excel Auto CAD, Autodesk Land, ArcGIS, MS Project, AIMSUN, DynusT, VISSIM & MICROSTATION MISCELLANEOUS 2015 UTEP Project Move (community service to the El Paso area) 2014 UTEP Project Move (community service to the El Paso area) 2013 Soccer Champion, UTEP Recreational Sports Department Intermural 2009 Soccer Champion, K. N. Toosi University of Technology 2007 Soccer Champion, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz REFRENCES 1- Dr. Kelvin Cheu, Professor - Civil Engineering rcheu@utep.edu (915) Dr. Soheil Nazarian, Professor - Civil Engineering nazarian@utep.edu (915) Dr. Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, Associate Professor - Electrical & Computer Engineer tsarkodi@utep.edu (915) Dr. Carlos Ferregut, Professor Civil Engineering ferregut@utep.edu (915) Dr. Reza Salehi Ashtiani, Assitant Professor Civil Engineering reza@utep.edu (915)