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Alexandre Bayen is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds positions in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He served as the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley from 2014 to 2021 and has been a faculty member since 2005. Bayen has a distinguished academic background, earning his Ph.D. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and a degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in France. He has contributed significantly to the field with over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has received several prestigious awards, including the Ballhaus Award from Stanford, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and recognition as one of NASA’s Top 10 Innovators in Water Sustainability. His research interests are multidisciplinary, focusing on transportation systems, including dynamic routing, traffic modeling, and the socio-economic impacts of autonomous transport technologies. Bayen's projects have garnered international media attention and he has received accolades for innovative practices in transportation.
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