Dr. Frank Southworth

Biography

Frank Southworth joined Georgia Tech faculty in February 2012. Before joining Tech, Southworth spent 28 years as an employee of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee, leaving ORNL as a Distinguished R&D Staff member in December 2011. Prior to joining ORNL in 1984, he was a faculty member in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a research officer at the Institute of Transport Studies at the University of Leeds in England. Southworth has published extensively on transportation planning topics and has been involved in the management of a number of large transportation data modeling projects, producing widely used datasets and software tools. ORNL received multiple awards for his research contributions, and he has conducted research for federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency for International Development, as well as branches of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, and Transportation. His research has also been conducted for the National Science Foundation, the Transportation Research Board, Brookings Institution, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, among others. He regularly serves on regional and national review panels addressing data, statistical, and mathematical modeling issues in freight and passenger transportation.

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