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Cynthia Chen is an internationally renowned scholar in transportation science and directs the THINK (Transportation-Human Interaction Network Knowledge) lab at the University of Washington. Her work at the THINK lab focuses on the intersection of human behavior and the systems within which individuals and businesses operate. Specifically, her research investigates the complexities found at the urban system scale, examining micro-level individual behaviors, meso-scale interactions derived from these behaviors, and macro-scale system behaviors that propagate across one or multiple networks. Cynthia has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Transportation Research Part A-F Omega and interdisciplinary publications like PNAS. Her research is supported by federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. She also served a two-year assignment as Program Director for Civil Infrastructure Systems in the National Science Foundation's Civil, Mechanical, Manufacturing Innovation division, and was the associate director of TOMNET, a USDOT-funded University Transportation Center. In addition, Cynthia serves as an associate editor for prominent journals such as Transportation Science and Service Science, and is on the editorial board for Sustainability Analytics Modeling.
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