Service
Editorial Boards
Associate Editor, Harvard Data Science Review (2019-Current).
Member, Editorial Board, Data Science for Transportation (2018-Current).
Member, Editorial Board, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. September 2016-Current.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Transportation and Statistics, 2003-2006 and 2011-2015.
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA Journal), 2011-2014.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA Journal), 2007-2010.
Guest Editor, Journal of Transportation and Statistics. Special Issue on Measurement of Accessibility. Vol.4, Nos. 2/3, Sept.-December.
Other service
UN Habitat. National-level roundtable on Integrating Quality of Life into Official Statistics. Remote panel member, Bilbao, Spain, June 8-9, 2024.
Moderator, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics and Board of Mathematical Sciences. Workshop on Digital Twins for Social and Behavioral Systems. May 30, 2024.
Moderator, National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Digital Twins for the Electricity System: A symposium. July 26, 2023.
Member, National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, 2023-2026.
User Advocate, Technology sprint on public transportation and climate change. Organized by US Census Bureau’s Open Innovation Labs and US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration, 2022-2023.
Chair, International Expert Committee for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (Smart Mobility), October 2022, Toronto, Canada.
Member, Committee of the Academy, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2021-2023, current term 2023-2025.
Speaker and planning support, Newark Airport City project, 2021.
Chair, International Expert Committee for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (Smart Cities), March 2020, Toronto, Canada (virtual meeting).
Member, Advisory Group, UK Office of National Statistics Data Science Campus, April 2018-Current.
Member, PASCAL International Observatory Board of Directors, 2018-2022.
Member, European Commission/Eurostat’s 2019 New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) Scientific Committee.
Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd International Conference “Smart Data, Smart Cities”, Delft , The Netherlands, October 4-5, 2018.
Member of steering committee, NSF CMMI Data Infrastructure Workshop, Arlington, VA, Feb 6-7, 2017.
Member of program committee, Big Data and Transport workshop held in IIT-Chennai funded by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Chennai, India, Dec 5-6, 2016.
Member, University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy Affiliate Expert Network, 2016-2018.
Member, International Advisory Committee, First International Workshop on Big Data Smart Transportation Analytics in Shanghai, China, jointly organized by Purdue University and Tongji University, Shanghai, China, July 16-17, 2016.
Chair, Workshop on Innovative Multi-modal Data on Urban Living. Sponsored by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Glasgow, UK, Feb 3-4, 2016.
Program Committee Member, Workshop on Technological and Social Limits to Future Cities. Sponsored by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Glasgow, UK, April 18, 2016.
Program Committee Member and Institutional Sponsor, 4th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2015 Workshop on Understanding the City with Urban Informatics. Melbourne, Australia, Oct 23, 2015.
Program Committee Member, International Conference on Location-Based Social Media
Data, Athens, Georgia, March 13-14, 2015.
Program Committee Member, AAAI-15 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Transportation, Austin, Texas, Jan 25-26, 2015.
General Chair, Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics. Sponsored by US National Science Foundation, Chicago, IL, August 11 and 12, 2014.
Co-Chair (with Massimo Craglia, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy, and Chris Pettit, University of New South Wales, Australia), Urban Data Interest Group, Research Data Alliance (RDA), a joint effort of the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Government’s Department of Innovation to build social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data, 2013-Current.
Member, Evaluation Strategy Board, Glasgow Future City Demonstrator Project funded by UK Technology Strategy Board, 2013-2014.
Affiliate Member, Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning of PASCAL International Observatory, 2013-Current.
Member, Expert Panel, Government of India on Sustainable Urban Transport Project’ launched by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India with the help of Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNDP and the World Bank, 2012-2013.
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo Program Committee, Beijing, China, Co-sponsored by Transportation Research Board, IEEE, IFAC and ACM, Dec 12-16, 2012.
Founding Co-Chair (with Harvey Miller, Ohio State University, USA), Joint Subcommittee on Computational Transportation and Society, Transportation Research Board, 2012-2015. (Lead sponsoring committee: ABJ30: Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems; partner sponsoring committees: ABJ60: Geographic Information Science and Applications and ABJ95: Visualization in Transportation).
Member, Sustainable Glasgow team, 2012-2013.
General Chair, 4th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science in the ACM SIGSPATIAL 19th International Conference on Advances in GIS, 2011.
Member, Program Committee, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) – GIScience for Changing Human Environment, 2011.
Treasurer, Faculty Women’s Interest Group, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2010-2013.
Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science. Held in conjunction with Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2-5, 2010.
Associate Member, MODAP (Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy) funded by European Commission FET OPEN Office of Emerging Technologies, 2009-2012.
Member, Marsha Ritzdorf Awards Selection Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2010.
Representative, Association of Collegiate School of Planning (ACSP) Faculty Women Interest Group, Midwest Region, 2008-2010.
Member, USAID and Higher Education for Development Review Panel, 2008.
Member, Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS 08, July 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Chair, Program Committee, Institute of Transportation Engineers 2008 Midwest Annual Conference.
Member, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) Transportation Committee, 2006-2010.
Member, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress Program Committee, 2005-2008.
Member, Federal Transit Administration and U.S. Department of Labor Joblinks Job Access and Reverse Commute Advisory Committee, 2006-2008.
Member, Committee on Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 2007-2017.
Representative, Public Transportation/Multi-Modal Technical Advisory Group, Illinois Center for Transportation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2009.
Member, Committee on Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer Software, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 2004-2008.
Member, Committee on National Transportation Data Needs and Requirements, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1999-2002.
Member, U.S. Bureau of Census design of the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey questionnaire development review team of the Economic Census. 2000.
Member, U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Workshop on development of methodology for performance measurement of the transportation system. Summer 2000.
Member, Freeway and Multi-lane Highway Subcommittee of the Highway Capacity Committee of the Transportation Research Board. 1995-1998.
Member, Panel on Weaving Area Capacity and Level of Service on Freeways, Arterials, and Collector-Distributor Roads, National Cooperative Highway Research Panel, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1995-1999.
Member, Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment Committee, Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) Priority Intelligent Transportation Systems Corridor. 1998-2005.
Member, Advanced Technology Task Force, Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS). As a member of this Task Force, I reviewed the development of the Strategic Early Deployment Plan for Intelligent Transportation Systems in Northeastern Illinois a sub-part of which was ultimately included in the region’s 20-year plan titled Destination 2020. 1998-2005.
Coordinator, Transportation Planning sessions of the INFORMS [organized by the Operations Research Society of America/Institute of Management Sciences (ORSA/TIMS)] bi-annual and later, annual, meetings. 1994-1997.