Husain Aziz
Associate Professor
Contact information
2132 Fiedler Hall
azizhusain@k-state.edu
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Education
- Ph.D., Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Engineering, Purdue University - West Lafayette, 2014
- M.S., Transportation Engineering, The University of Texas Austin, 2009
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2007
Professional experience
Dr. Husain Aziz is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Kansas State University. He leads the Transportation Infrastructure & Systems (TIS) Labs, focusing on the intersection of AI/ML, connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), and modeling large-scale transportation systems. He leads teams that fuse CV2X, weather, infrastructure, and operations data into explainable models and digital twins, leveraging graph learning, mathematical optimization, reinforcement learning, and simulation-based optimization to improve road safety, mobility, and infrastructure resilience. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and Purdue University in 2010 and 2014, respectively, and his B.Sc. degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2007. Before joining K-State Civil Engineering, Dr. Aziz held an R&D scientist position at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy (2014 – 2019). He also served as the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (Taylor & Francis). He is a full member of the ASCE, ITE, and IEEE.
Research
Dr. Aziz has served as PI or co-PI on a portfolio of state and federal awards spanning Kansas DOT (K-TRAN), FMCSA, NSF EPSCoR, DOE/ORNL, and USDOT programs, with cumulative funding in the multi-million-dollar range. His research portfolio is supported by state and federal sponsors and focuses on developing deployable decision-support tools for agencies. Externally funded projects include co-leading the resilient transportation infrastructure theme of the NSF EPSCoR ARISE program; FMCSA's high-priority program, Kansas DOT efforts on dynamic wireless EV charging, connected-vehicle safety applications, and rural crash analysis; and an FHWA pooled-fund project on autonomous maintenance technology deployment (ATMA). Across these awards, his group fuses traffic, weather, and infrastructure data with explainable ML, graph learning, and simulation to improve safety, mobility, and system resilience.
Academic highlights
Husain has co-authored one book chapter, and several peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings papers. He received a Superior Performance Award and Distinguished Contribution Recognition at ORNL. He and his colleagues from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory also received the best poster award at the 2018 ASCE Transportation and Development Institute conference. Aziz serves as a peer-reviewer for several SJR Q1 journals and as a grant proposal reviewer for different funding agencies.