By PacTrtans
http://depts.washington.edu/pactrans/wsu-graduate-research-assistant-receives-four-awards-in-2019/
Graduate Research Assistant, Rasool Mohebifard, from PacTrans constituent university WSU, has been the recipient of multiple awards granted in 2019 thus far.
So far this year, Mohebifard has been awarded the following:
- Washington State University Outstanding Research Assistant Excellence Award, Washington State University
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Washington State University
- Ph.D. Student Workshop on Transportation and Logistics Challenges and Opportunities travel scholarship, National Science Foundation
- Perteet Engineering Graduate Fellowship in Civil Engineering, Washington State University
Mohebifard has played many roles at WSU, including graduate teaching assistant and graduate instructor. In addition to his current role, he acts as the Budget Committee Chair for the WSU ITE Student Chapter. Prior to joining the WSU staff in 2016, Mohebifard worked in transportation planning at Behin Taradod Kavir.
Mohebifard earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in 2012 before going on to receive his M.S. in Transportation and Highway Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2014. Building on that, he obtained his Ph.D. in Transportation and Highway Engineering from WSU in 2016.
Mohebifard’s research interests include traffic congestion management, smart cities, and network design. He and WSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Ali Hajbabaie, recently had their paper, titled, “Optimal network-level traffic signal control: A benders decomposition-base solution algorithm,” published in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological last winter.
Congratulations to Rasool for all his great achievements!