Mass Transit recently named Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Graduate Research Assistant Ahmadreza Mahmoudzadeh to the 40 Under 40 list for 2020. Mahmoudzadeh began working in TTI’s Transit Mobility Program in fall 2018 and is a Ph.D. candidate in Texas A&M University’s Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He recently graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M’s William Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Within the Transit Mobility program, he applies modeling techniques and machine learning tools using different programming languages to improve public transit by increasing safety awareness and evaluating processes.
Mahmoudzadeh says, “I most enjoy having the freedom to try out different ways of approaching a question. My group at TTI supports and encourages my independence and creativity, and I appreciate that.”
The story was originally published by Mass Transit, Aug. 18, 2020.