Sreevarshini Karthikeyan has been awarded the inaugural ITS-NY Future Leadership Scholarship for the 2024-2025 academic year and is currently a senior at The Cooper Union, where she is pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering. She has internship experience in structural engineering and is currently researching how traffic and precipitation data can be used to evaluate the structural state of roadway infrastructure. She recently presented her work at the Naval Academy’s Science and Engineering Conference and plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering. Outside of academics, she has been singing classical Indian music for over a decade and enjoys gardening and cooking.

Gongda Yu has been awarded the inaugural ITS-NY Dotty Drinkwater Scholarship for the 2024-2025 academic year and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on understanding the causes, perceptions, and impacts of driving anxiety on young drivers’ skills and behaviors, as well as investigating how advanced warning messages from autonomous vehicles influence the behavior and perceptions of road users within virtual reality. Gongda holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he studied traffic flow characteristics and network traffic instability in automated driving environments.

His research interests also include road weather and winter maintenance using ITS information, traffic safety, travel behavior, travel demand forecasting, and transportation systems.

Congratulations to ITS-NY Board Member Camille Kamga on his recent promotion to Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York!

Congratulations to C2SMARTER student researcher Haggai Davis III. who has been selected as the recipient of this year’s ITE MET Section Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Award! Haggai is a 3rd year Ph.D. Candidate at NYU.

This award will be presented to Haggai at the next ITE MET Section Meeting on April 17th at Princeton University.

Dr. Arthur O’Connor, ITS-NY Immediate Past President, received the following 2023 FHWA award:

Leadership in Operations Award-Field Office

The FHWA Discipline Awards acknowledge and recognize individuals who do an outstanding job leading, supporting, and advancing their disciplines.

Congratulations Art!