Technical Program

Dave Schlesinger
ASME Chair
Parsons Corporation

Milad Hosseinipour
ASME Assistant Chair
Amtrak

David Thurston
IEEE Cochair
Canadian Pacific

Hai Huang
ASCE Cochair
Penn State Altoona

CO-CHAIR: Chris Barkan
NURail Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Conrad Ruppert
NURail Assistant Chair
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Narayana Sundaram
APTS Cochair
American Public Transportation Association
nsundaram@apta.com

Conrad Ruppert, Jr.
AREMA Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Xuesong Zhou
INFORMS-RAS Cochair
Arizona State University

Dave Schlesinger
TRB Cochair
Parsons Corporation

Scott Babcock
TRB Cochair
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Co-Chairs

Deb Mishra
ASCE Chair
Boise State University

Bryan Schlake
ASME Cochair
Penn State Altoona

Scholarships

Jeff Gordon (ASME)
Federal Railroad Administration
Asst.: Martin Ehrenzeller (ASME)
Standard Steel

Sam Williams
Manager of Divisional Affairs

Dave Thurston
IEEE Cochair
Canadian Pacific Railway

Chris Barkan
NURail Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Conrad Ruppert, Jr.
AREMA Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Tyler Dick
INFORMS RAS Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Dave Schlesinger
TRB Cochair
Parsons Corporation

Publicity

Mehdi Ahmadian
ASME Chair
Virginia Tech

ASSISTANT: OPEN (ASME)

Committee:
Bob Irving
Matt Dick
Nick Darien
Steve Dedmon

Dimitris Rizos
ASCE Cochair
University of South Carolina

John Hofbauer
IEEE Cochair
Parsons Corporation

Greg Placencia
TRB Cochair
Cal Poly Pomona

Lindsay McNicholas
AREMA Cochair

Tyler Dick
INFORMS RAS Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chris Barkan
NURail Cochair
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign