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Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Austin Valentine Angulo, PhD
204 D Ketter Hall
Buffalo NY, 14260
Phone: (716) 645-2783
I am an Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering and Founder of the Transportation Research and Visualization Laboratory in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo.
I utilize virtual reality simulation to develop and evaluate the impacts of alternative roadway safety designs and cyber-physical systems on human behavior and safety for drivers and vulnerable road users (VRUs, i.e., pedestrians, bicyclists, micromobility users). Development and deployment of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) prove extremely promising for handling transportation demand issues. However, CAVs also expose VRUs to new safety risks. My research aims to design and test Intelligent Transportation Systems applications and operations that are inclusive of all users on the roadway, while remaining directly applicable to real-world decision-making processes. Primarily, I take a human factors approach towards understanding the implications of new designs and technologies and approach human subject testing from multiple angles to assure not only the safety of subjects, but to push the boundaries of human behavior research.
I am a former Dwight David Eisenhower Fellow at the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center where I worked on connected vehicle applications for pedestrian safety and helped found the Omni-Reality and Cognition Lab at the University of Virginia where I completed my PhD.
I am involved in the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation & Development Institute (ASCE TD&I), Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), and Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
Kevin F. Hulme, CMSP, PhD
Kevin F. Hulme, CMSP, PhD
TRAVL Support Staff
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
204 C Ketter Hall
Buffalo NY, 14260
Phone: (716) 645-5573
Kevin F. Hulme, CMSP, PhD is a senior staff associate with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and serves as the program manager for the Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics. His current interest areas include applied modeling and simulation (M&S), transportation engineering, vehicle modeling, simulation science, game-based approaches in engineering education, human factors, and advanced air mobility.
Hulme is a Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional (CMSP), a high professional distinction endorsed by the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA).
Irina Benedyk, PhD
Irina Benedyk, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
204 E Ketter Hall
Buffalo NY, 14260
Phone: (716) 645-4346
Irina Benedyk, is an Assistant Professor at Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo. She holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics and Management with concentration in Maritime Transportation from the Novorossiysk State Maritime Academy, and in Civil Engineering from the Purdue University. In addition, Irina has about 10 years of experience in the marine intermodal logistics and freight transportation sectors. She worked for the one of the largest maritime container carrier CMA CGM S.A. and for forwarding company at various positions starting from import/export specialist to head of consulting department servicing hundreds of clients all over the world.
Dr.Benedyk conducts research in areas of traveler behavior, human factors, travel information, and connected and automated vehicles, with the goal of improving performance, safety, instruction, transportation equity, and driving education. She utilizes a range of complementary experimental techniques, such as immersive driving simulations, instrumented vehicles, psychophysical and physiological measures, surveys, and phycological metrics, and current research topics include examining how sever driving anxiety impacts driving performance of young driver, driving behavior and decision making in snowy driving conditions, traveling difficulties of individuals with high functioning autistic spectrum disorder.
Ye Wang
Ye Wang
PhD Student
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
204 B Ketter Hall
Buffalo NY, 14260
Ye Wang joined the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo in summer 2023 as PhD Student under the supervision of assistant professor Austin V. Angulo. Ye Wang obtained his Master of Engineering degrees from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research topics include transportation planning, transportation safety analysis, mixed reality and 3D modeling, machine learning algorithms on sensor data, and computer vision applications.
Wang also has professional experience as a transportation engineer, data analyst, and front-end developer within university medical research labs and is a certified EIT in Virginia.
Gongda Yu
Gongda Yu
PhD Student
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
204 B Ketter Hall
Buffalo NY, 14260
Gongda Yu is a Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo. Under the guidance of Dr. Irina Benedyk, Gongda's doctoral research focuses on understanding the causes, perceptions, and impacts of driving anxiety on young drivers' skills and behaviors. He holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he explored traffic flow characteristics and network traffic instability in automated driving environments.
His research interests span road weather and winter maintenance, traffic safety, travel behavior, traffic flow theory, travel demand forecasting modeling, and transportation systems.
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