Alex Bayen is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and in Electrical Engineering and computer design. He has been the director of the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) since July 2014. Professor Bayen has authored two books and over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is the recipient of the Ballhaus Award from Stanford University, 2004, of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, 2009 and he is one of the NASA Top 10 Innovators on Water Sustainability, 2010. His projects Mobile Century and Mobile Millennium received the 2008 Best of ITS Award for ‘best innovative practice’, at the ITS World Congress and a TRANNY Award from the California Transportation Foundation, 2009. Mobile Millennium has been featured more than 200 times in the media, including TV channels and radio stations (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNET, NPR, KGO, the BBC), and in the popular press (Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times). Bayen is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award from the White House, 2010. He is also the recipient of the Okawa Research Grant Award, the Ruberti Prize from the IEEE, and the Huber Prize from the ASCE.
Alexandre Bayen holds an engineering degree in applied mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, France, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. He was a visiting researcher at NASA Ames Research Center from 2000 to 2003, and in 2004 was the Research Director of the Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aerodynamiques, (Ministere de la Defense, Vernon, France), where he holds the rank of Major.
