Alexandre Bayen honored with three IEEE awards

EECS Professor Alex Bayen will receive multiple IEEE awards for his work in transportation this year.

Following the MegaVandertest large-scale mixed-autonomy traffic experiment conducted by the CIRCLES consortium in 2022 under the leadership of Alex Bayen, the project has been honored with the 2024 IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS). Alex will receive this award at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) conference in Edmonton, Canada, later this Fall. This research, originally known as FLOW, has strong ties to UC Berkeley, specifically within the Berkeley Deep Drive program, BAIR, and the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS).

At the same conference, Alex will also be presented with the 2024 IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award. He will be recognized “for his work on mobile traffic sensing through smartphones and traffic control through vehicle automation.”

Additionally, later this month, Alex will be awarded the IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award at the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024 in Newcastle, UK. This award “recognizes outstanding collaborative scientific interactions between industry and/or research laboratories and academic communities that transition basic controls and system theory to practical systems for the benefit of society at large.”

Alex Bayen is the Associate Provost for Moffett Field Program Development at UC Berkeley, and the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering.