Funding provided through a cooperative agreement with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
If you would like more information, email Brenda Lantz at brenda.lantz@ndsu.edu.
Speaker Bio
Juan Medina
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah
Dr. Medina has over fifteen years of experience in transportation engineering research gained through his doctoral studies and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, as well as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Utah since 2015. His research has a strong data-driven component and is focused on traffic safety and traffic control systems. Dr. Medina is the Principal Investigator for the Crash Data Initiative (UTAPS-CDI), a long-term effort to develop back-end, middleware, and web front tools aimed at unifying, hosting, and integrating crash-related data and analytics in the state of Utah. He has been involved either as a principal investigator or a key researcher on over 30 externally sponsored projects. Dr. Medina is also a certified professional in the administration of Microsoft SQL databases, and he is active in the transportation community, mostly through TRB committees and as a handling editor for the TRR journal.