The Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility would like to invite you to attend our Distinguished Speaker Series to see Dr. Ardalan Vahidi speak on Coordinating Connected Cars and Signals in Smart Cites. Dr. Vahidi will be speaking on Thursday, March 28th, at 2:00pm in the Watt Family Innovation Center, room 218. For those unable to attend in person Dr. Vahidi’s talk will be available via webinar through Adobe Connect at https://connect.clemson.edu/c2m2/.
Ardalan Vahidi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2005, M.Sc. in transportation safety from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 2002, and B.S. and M.Sc. from Sharif University, Tehran in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 2012–2013 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also held scientific visiting positions at BMW Technology Office in California, and at IFP Energies Nouvelles, in France. His research is at the intersection of energy, vehicular systems, and automatic control. His recent publications span topics in alternative vehicle powertrains, intelligent transportation systems, and connected and autonomous vehicle technologies.