UB Transportation Innovation and Impact Day

An accomplished higher education leader and innovator and an exemplary scholar and teacher, A. Scott Weber, PhD, was named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs in January 2020. As the university’s second ranking officer, he is responsible for overseeing all academic and academic support programs.  

A highly respected professor and senior leader at UB, Dr. Weber has spent more than 40 years enabling faculty to deliver impactful research and education and providing UB students with the academic programs, support and resources they need to thrive at the university and beyond.

Previously, Dr. Weber served as the senior vice provost for academic affairs where he provided leadership for undergraduate and graduate education, academic support services, transformative extracurricular programs and centralized enrollment services.  He led efforts to ensure that students have a transformative educational experience with opportunities to engage in truly distinctive research, creative and public service activities that are hallmarks of a top-tier university education.  Dr. Weber was also instrumental in the creation of the UB Curriculum and the university’s nationally recognized Finish in 4 program.

A professor and former chair of the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Dr. Weber’s research focuses on biodegradation of chemicals in water and soil and the reclamation of environmentally impacted sites known as brownfields.

A member of the UB faculty since 1983, Dr. Weber twice was named professor of the year by the UB student chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He received a BS and an MS from Virginia Tech and earned a PhD in civil engineering from the University of California-Davis.

Kemper E. Lewis, PhD, MBA, and dean of UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is a global leader in engineering design, system optimization and advanced manufacturing. Prior to being named dean, Lewis served as chair of UB's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he was also the Moog Professor of Innovation.

Lewis is also the director of UB’s Community of Excellence in Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART), an initiative that harnesses the strengths of faculty across the university to develop advanced manufacturing and design processes including autonomy, intelligence and materials technologies.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and has served on the National Academies Panel on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the United States in Mechanical Engineering. He has published over 200 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings and has been principal or co-principal investigator on grants totaling more than $33 million.

Active in the profession, Lewis chaired ASME’s Mechanical Engineering Department Head Executive Committee. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his teaching and research excellence from several professional societies, including ASME, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Lewis joined UB in 1996. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering and a BA in mathematics from Duke University, his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from UB.

Stephen E. Still is a professor of practice with UB’s Institute of Sustainable Transportation and Logistics, jointly sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Management. He teaches courses in applied transportation planning and technology, and serves as a student advisor.

He was the founder and managing director of Seabury Airline Planning Group, LLC, as well as Diio, LLC. These firms concentrated on consulting and IT for the aviation industry. He has over 30 years experience in consulting and management of transportation systems. Steve was director of corporate planning with US Airways, Inc. responsible for development of strategic initiatives for routes, fleets and alliances. Prior to US Airways, Steve was manager of domestic planning at United Airlines, Inc. where he was responsible for developing United’s long-range network and fleet plans.

He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University with a specialty in transportation systems and economics. He earned a BS in engineering from UB, magna cum laude, with a concentration in transportation planning. He has also completed courses in advanced demand modeling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Austin V. Angulo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University at Buffalo. His research interests include CAV technologies, non-motorized user safety, micromobility modelling, human factors in transportation, virtual reality simulation and transportation planning and sustainability.

Angulo is the founder and Director of the Transportation Research and Visualization Laboratory (TRAVL), a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the research, training, and education of human interaction with transportation infrastructure using naturalistic and immersive virtual simulation methodologies.

Angulo received his PhD (’21), MS (’18), and BS (’15) from the University of Virginia where he founded the Omni-Reality and Cognition Laboratory and was a Dwight David Eisenhower Fellow at the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center.

Kevin F. Hulme, CMSP, received his PhD from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University at Buffalo, specializing in the multidisciplinary analysis and optimization of complex systems. For the past decade,  Hulme has served as the technical lead of the Motion Simulation Laboratory at UB, where he and his team focus on the custom development of ground vehicle simulations for diverse applications in: modeling and simulation (M&S), standardization of simulators in teen driver safety, fidelity requirements in simulation system specification, multi-participant driving simulation, application of simulators in transportation safety, evaluation of next-generation vehicle technologies (e.g., urban-air mobility, Flying Cars), game-based learning and gamification in simulation-based training, and the multi-measure assessment of cognitive distractions on driver performance. Hulme is a Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional (CMSP) (#0553), a high distinction in the M&S field.

Adel Sadek is an expert on traffic and intelligent transportation systems.

Sadek’s research focuses on using big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and modeling to study traffic. The goal of this work is to improve traffic flow, save time and fuel, reduce pollution, understand crash risk and increase safety.

Over many years, Sadek’s research has ranged from studying delays at border crossings to building a computer model to help transportation planners better manage roadways during inclement weather, such as snowstorms. His interests also include forecasting travel demand.

Projects in Sadek’s lab have investigated the performance and efficiency of conventional, autonomous and electric vehicles.

Sadek was the founding director of the Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics at UB.

Ziqi Song is an expert in transportation network modeling; transportation electrification; intelligent transportation systems; and traffic operations. He is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, and director of the Sustainable Urban Mobility and Intelligent Transportation (SUMIT) laboratory.