
Prof. R. Jayakrishnan has been in the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Irvine since 1991, after receiving his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in a variety of topics such as Traffic Flow Theory and Simulation, Transportation Systems Analysis, Network Modelling, Decision Theory, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Public Transit Design. He has been a member of several professional committees, has served in the editorial committees of journals such as the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering and Transportation Research Part-C, and has served in several professional committees and academic panels of the Federal Highway Administration, National Science Foundation, and the Transportation Research Board. A paper co-authored by him received the prestigious Pyke Johnson Award for the best paper in planning at the 2009 TRB meeting. 22 PhD students have graduated under his advice, with half of them in faculty positions in USA, S. Korea and around the world. He has over 120 refereed publications to his credit. He has been a visiting professor at institutions such as the Ajou University in South Korea and the Amrita University in India.