Center for Environmental Research & Technology

Dr. Steven Shladover is a Research Engineer and Project Manager with the California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at UC Berkeley, which he helped establish in the mid-1980s as the first U.S. research program in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). With three degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and five decades of experience applying information technology to surface transportation, Dr. Shladover has led groundbreaking work in vehicle automation and cooperative systems. His efforts include the nation’s first research on cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) and truck and bus platooning. He has managed numerous state and national research projects, chaired committees for TRB, ITS America, and ASME, and served on editorial boards of leading ITS journals. His contributions have been recognized with major research honors, including the ASME DSCD Charles Stark Draper Award and the American Automatic Control Council’s Control Engineering Practice Award. Since 1993, Dr. Shladover has represented the U.S. in ISO TC204 Working Group 14 and has been active in developing ITS standards for SAE.

Matthew Barth is the Esther & Daniel Hays Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education at the Bourns College of Engineering, University of California-Riverside. He is part of the intelligent systems faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering and conducts his research at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), UCR’s largest multi-disciplinary research center. Dr. Barth’s research focuses on Intelligent Transportation Systems, with the goal of improving environmental sustainability. His current research interests and teaching portfolio includes sustainable transportation, connected and automated vehicles, cooperative perception systems, advanced navigation, shared mobility, and vehicle electrification.

Professor Barth received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is active with the U.S. Transportation Research Board serving in a variety of roles in several committees. He has also served on a number of National Research Council (NRC) Committees. Dr. Barth is also an IEEE Fellow and has been active in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society for many years, participating in a variety of roles, including Society President from 2014-2015. He has received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding Research Award in 2017 and the IEEE ITS Institution Lead Award in 2020.

Kanok Boriboonsomsin is a Full Research Engineer at UC Riverside’s CE-CERT and a Full Adjunct Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering, where he leads a research program on sustainable and intelligent transportation systems with a focus on freight. He has served as CE-CERT’s Associate Director of Finance & Administration since 2021 and as Associate Editor for IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. Dr. Boriboonsomsin is a member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, ITE, TRB, and SAE International. He is a co-recipient of SAE International’s Arch T. Colwell Merit Award (2021) and Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award (2019).

Mike Brown is an Institute Engineer for Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, TX. He has been a leader in the development and deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems for twenty-eight years.

Mike is an active member of the standards community including IEEE, SAE, and ISO, where he currently serves as the Convenor for the Communications Working Group for ISO TC204 – Intelligent Transportation Systems.

He leads several programs for SwRI in Intelligent Transportation Systems & Connected and Automated Vehicles. Mike is currently leading the ITS Applied Analytics program area at SwRI, which includes the development and deployment of ITS data exchange platforms and V2X deployment support.
 

Amit Roy-Chowdhury leads the Vision and Learning Group at UC Riverside, where his research focuses on the foundational principles of computer vision, image processing, and statistical learning, with applications in cyber-physical, autonomous, and intelligent systems. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a cooperating appointment in Computer Science and Engineering. He also serves as Co-Director of the UCR Institute of AI Research and Education (RAISE@UCR) and Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Center of Excellence in Networked Configurable Command, Control, and Communications for Rapid Situational Awareness (NC4).

Prof. Roy-Chowdhury’s research has been supported by various U.S. government agencies and private industries. His group has published more than 250 papers in prestigious conferences and journals. His monograph, Person Re-identification with Limited Supervision, provides an overview of multi-camera tracking. His work on face recognition in art has been widely featured in the media, including a PBS/National Geographic documentary and The Economist.

He has served on the editorial boards of major journals and as Area Chair or Senior Area Chair of leading conferences in his field. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IAPR. Prof. Roy-Chowdhury received the UCR Doctoral Dissertation Advising/Mentoring Award in 2019 and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland, College Park.

András Csepinszky is founder and CEO of MoTeRe Mobility Technology Research Nonprofit Kft, which is based in Keszthely, Hungary. and a senior expert in intelligent transport systems (ITS), connected and automated mobility (CCAM), and digital mapping technologies. With 20 years of experience in R&D&I, EU framework projects, and international standardisation, he has played leading roles in EU co-funded projects such as Hi-Drive, ESERCOM-D, NextETruck, ESRIUM, EuroFOT, and CityMobil2, and has leading role at stakeholder platforms including SENSORIS, TISA, and the Open AutoDrive Forum. He represents Hungary in ISO/TC 204, CEN/TC 278, ISO/TC 22, and ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 42, contributing to the development of global standards for ITS, road vehicles, and AI. Previously, he served as Director of Advanced Automotive Technology at NNG Llc., and as PMO lead building the company’s global Project Management Office. He is also an invited lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, a frequent speaker at international congresses, and recipient of the Pollák-Virág Award (2022), TISA Achievement Award (2018), and Simonyi Award (2015).

Rafael Guzman serves as the Assistant City Manager and the City of Riverside’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. Over his ten-year tenure with the city, Rafael has overseen several departments, including Riverside Public Utilities, Public Works, Community & Economic Development, Marketing and Communications, and the Office of Sustainability.

In his role as Chief Sustainability Officer, Rafael has led numerous transformative initiatives aimed at fostering environmental stewardship and climate resilience. His leadership has been instrumental in launching the City’s second Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, advancing the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Transition Plan, breaking ground on the first solar greenhouse and agrivoltaics project in the US, and deploying all-electric, autonomous shuttles. During Rafael’s tenure, the city secured 125 megawatts of wind energy, bringing the electric portfolio to 69% renewable, non-GHG-sourced energy. Additionally, the city completed the Seven Oaks Dam Water Recharge Project, which captures 24 billion gallons of water annually. Other notable accomplishments under his guidance include securing a $1 million grant for the Citywide Tree Inventory, advancing the Blue Zones Certification Initiative, and hosting the region’s first Extreme Heat Summit. Rafael played a pivotal role in Riverside’s successful bid to host the California Air Resources Board's Southern California Headquarters, the world’s largest net-zero LEED Platinum building, now home to 400 employees who set vehicle emissions and air quality standards.

Rafael holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Irvine, a Master of Environmental Science from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry and is a graduate of the Harvard University-Bloomberg City Leadership program.

Dr. Peng Hao is an Associate Researcher at CE-CERT and Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from Tsinghua University in 2008, and Ph.D. degree in transportation engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2013. Following graduation, he served as a postdoctoral scholar and then research faculty at CE-CERT. Dr. Hao's research interests include connected and automated vehicles, eco-driving, traffic modeling and simulation, signal control and traffic operations. His current research focuses on developing eco-driving strategies at signalized intersections based on vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, estimating the performance of urban traffic systems using mobile sensing data, and evaluating the environmental impact of traffic congestion using sparse data.

Eunjeong Hyeon is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research aims to advance transportation systems, enhancing safety, sustainability, and efficiency. Before joining UCR, she worked at Argonne National Laboratory as a principal research engineer, developing energy-efficient cooperative driving automation control and communication systems, digital twin models for hardware-in-the-loop testing, and on-road testing. Her research interests mainly focus on the perception, planning, and control of connected automated vehicles. 

Dr. Aravind Kailas is the Advanced Technology Policy Director at Volvo Group, where he leads public affairs for automation, connectivity, and electromobility in North America. His research-informed policy work spans the development of regulatory and deployment frameworks for autonomous and AI-enabled commercial vehicles. At Volvo, he led a $10 million program to test connected and automated trucks in operational environments, including an AI-based adaptive signal pilot aimed at optimizing freight flows and reducing emissions. He also initiated early truck platooning pilots, contributing to foundational safety standards and AV policy research. Dr. Kailas has authored over 100 publications recognized by IEEE, SAE, and TRB, and holds degrees in engineering and mathematics from Georgia Tech and the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Jiachen Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a cooperating faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, Riverside. He leads the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Laboratory (TASL) and is affiliated with the Riverside Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (RAISE) and the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS). Before joining UCR, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Li was recognized as an RSS Robotics Pioneer in 2022 and named an ASME Rising Star in 2023. He serves as an Associate Editor or Area Chair for over ten leading journals/conferences (e.g., T-RO, RA-L, CVPR, ICLR, ICRA) and has organized multiple workshops on robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent transportation systems at top international conferences. His research interests span robotics, trustworthy AI & ML, foundation models, reinforcement learning, control, optimization, and computer vision, with applications to intelligent autonomous systems (e.g., mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, manipulators, drones, and cyber-physical systems), particularly in human-robot interaction and multi-agent systems. More details about his research can be found at https://jiachenli94.github.io/.

Jim Misener is Senior Director, Product Management and the Global V2X Ecosystem Lead for Qualcomm. He develops and executes C-V2X deployment strategy across all global regions, working with automotive, road owner-operator, and telecommunications partners to accomplish broad C-V2X deployment. Jim also develops IoT solutions for transportation markets. Previously at Qualcomm, Jim led the automotive standards team.

Jim was a pioneer in vehicle-highway automation and vehicle safety communication at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley. He has served as the PATH Executive Director, Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and as an independent consultant. In these roles, Jim has a reputation for delivering dozens of technology projects with large-scale safety impact.

In addition to his roles at Qualcomm, Jim serves as a 5GAA Board member, ITS America Board member, ITS California senior advisor, and is on the IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors. Jim is also an Advisory Council member for Mobility 21-Traffic 21 led by Carnegie Mellon University and is on the Technical Advisory Board to the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation at the University of Michigan. Jim holds BS and MS degrees from UCLA and USC. Jim is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Young-Jun MOON is an invited Professor at the Global Commercialization Center (GCC) in the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), having retired in 2022 from the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) where he was the chief director of the R&D department for transport technology. He earned his doctoral degree in Transportation Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1998. Dr. Moon started his career in 1987 as a research engineer at the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), where he focused on developing the Korean Surface to Air Missile (KSAM). From 1999 onward, he led ITS R&D in Korea, participating in the ITS World Congress and International Standard Organizations in the ITS area. He has been involved in ISO/TC 204 as an expert in WG 14 (vehicle/roadway warning and control systems) since 1999 and served as the Convenor of WG 17 (nomadic & portable devices) since 2008. Dr. Moon has been a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) of the ITS World Congress since 2005, serving as the IPC chair for the 17th Congress in Busan in 2010. His domestic service includes membership in the National Science & Technology Council (NSTC) from 2010 to 2013 and chairing the Civil, Public, Air & Space R&D Committee under the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PACST) since 2019. Additionally, he acted as a consulting director of the transportation division for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Organizing Committee since 2010, and served as an Advisory Director to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MoLIT) from 2016 to 2017. He was recently elected as a board member for the 2023–2025 & 2026-2028 terms in the ISO Technical Management Board (TMB), representing the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), and has been appointed as the Chair of ISO/TC 241, Road traffic safety management systems.

Mr. Mustafa is a motivated Civil & Traffic Engineer and Certified Planner with over a decade of experience; Nathan is currently the Deputy Public Works Director/ City Engineer at the City of Riverside.

Mr. Mustafa began his career in the private sector but soon moved to the city and has advanced through the Traffic Engineering Division to the Public Works Department's Administrative Leadership Team. Nathan oversaw the modernization of the City’s Traffic Management Center and has collaborated with the University of California Riverside’s CE-CERT team in launching the City’s Innovation Corridor on University Avenue.

As a Deputy Director & City Engineer, Mr. Mustafa currently oversees a team of over 60 employees and has worked diligently to advocate for funding and to improve recruitment and retention for his teams. Nathan manages the budgetary process for funds under his care and recently advanced the successful adoption of both a new Parking rates and hours schedule and Solid Waste Service rates schedule through a difficult public engagement process. Nathan has played a primary role in securing over $100M in grant funding for the City during his career and has personally administered millions of dollars in grant and capital funds. Nathan oversees the deployment of Autonomous vehicles & advanced traffic signal control technology in the City. Nathan is currently working to support growth in the City’s Northside surrounding the proposed Riverside Adventure Center, Riverside Sports Complex and other exciting developments. Mr. Mustafa works to ensure that Riverside is a city attractive to new investment and growth for years to come, so that its residents can enjoy economic growth and a heightened quality of life.

Dr. Rosibel Ochoa is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Technology Partnerships at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), a position she has held since June 2016. As Associate Vice Chancellor, she oversees the management of the university's intellectual property portfolio, entrepreneurial programs, corporate research, and economic development, which includes accelerating the translation of university discoveries through partnerships with the private sector and the Inland Empire Community. Dr. Ochoa leads a team of 22 professional staff and 13 entrepreneurs in residence who mentor technology entrepreneurs. Her team negotiates over 300 agreements with industry per year, manages a portfolio of over 500 patents, and supports more than 100 technology startups annually. She has secured $33 million in federal, private, and state investments to support entrepreneurs in the region and has led initiatives that have supported over 600 entrepreneurial teams, which have raised over $110 million in venture investments and government grants. In her role, she has also spearheaded regional economic development initiatives, such as leading the design and construction of the $70 million OASIS Innovation Park. Additionally, she launched two specialized certificate programs through UC Riverside Extension and is the Principal Investigator of the Build Two Scale OASIS Accelerator Program, a $4 million program focused on creating a network of testbeds to accelerate clean tech startups.

Prior to her role at UCR, Dr. Ochoa held several positions at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from 2009 to June 2016. At UCSD, she served as the Senior Executive Director for Entrepreneurism and Leadership Programs at the Jacobs School of Engineering from June 2014 to May 2016. She also held the role of Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement from 2009 to June 2016. During her tenure at the von Liebig Center, 78 startup companies were created, which employed more than 460 people and raised $220 million. She also co-founded My Startup XX in 2011, a program for female students pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities that received two national awards from the Small Business Administration.

Dr. Ochoa holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville. She has been awarded the Female Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year by the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities in June 2023 and the Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Americas Award by the Organization of American States in December 2024. She is the inventor of two issued patents and has more than 18 scientific publications.
 

Mr. Ortiz is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal at ADVANTEC Consulting Engineers. He has over 30 years of experience in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), smart mobility, connected and automated vehicles (CAV), smart cities, systems engineering, broadband communications, and traffic engineering. He has led ITS projects for numerous agencies across the western United States. He is currently guiding clients in understanding the evolving Smart Cities and CAV landscape to support informed decisions on current and future ITS deployments.

Mr. Ortiz served on the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) International Board of Directors as Western District International Director and is currently a member of the ITE Transportation Consultants Council.

Mr. Ortiz also serves on the ITS California Board of Directors, the ITS California Partnership Committee, the Southern Section, the Annual Conference Committee, and the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Civil Engineering Department, Industry Advisory Council.

Mr. Ortiz graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He holds a Civil Engineering license in the states of California and Arizona. He is also registered as a Traffic Engineer in the State of California and is certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE).

Hang Qiu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, Riverside. His work explores how collaborative intelligence can advance modern autonomous systems by bridging robot, edge/cloud, and human intelligence. Through this interdisciplinary approach, he investigates challenges at the intersection of machine learning systems, robotics, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, and networking.

Before joining UC Riverside, Qiu worked as a software engineer at Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car spin-off, and as a postdoctoral scholar in the Platform Lab at Stanford University. He has also contributed to Microsoft Research and IBM Research, and collaborated with General Motors for over five years. He earned his Ph.D. from the Networked Systems Lab at the University of Southern California and his bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

He is a recipient of the MLSys Outstanding Paper Award, ACM Mobisys Best Paper Runner-up Award, and COMAP ICM Outstanding Winner Award.

Peter is part of international standardization, having actively contributed to technical committees within ETSI, ISO, and CEN for more than 30 years. His prolific contributions include serving as the rapporteur for over 100 ETSI technical specifications and leading the development of dozens of ISO documents from conception to publication. He currently convenes ISO TC204 SWG17.2, which is focused on developing standards for energy-based green ITS services for smart city mobility.

In addition, he serves as Manager for Interoperability and Standardization with ERTICO - ITS Europe since 2014. In this role, he leverages results from numerous EU-funded projects to inform and advance the working groups of key ISO and
ETSI committees.

Mr. Schmitting holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern).

• ISO TC204 develops international standards for Intelligent Transport Systems. Its Working Group 17 (WG17) focuses on nomadic and mobile devices for ITS, with its subgroup, SWG17.2, dedicated to "Green ITS" standards. This group, known informally as the "Save-the-Planet Group," creates standards for energy-efficient mobility services in smart cities.
• ERTICO – ITS Europe is a Brussels based cross-sector partnership of companies, organizations and public authorities with the objective of developing and deploying new ways to advance the digitalization of transport towards a more intelligent, safe and resilient future in Europe and beyond.
   

Robert leads the Luxembourg office for Ohmio Automotion, which is the European branch of the Australasian company. In this role, he is responsible for setting up the business in Europe and advancing local R&D competence for the further development of the Ohmio LIFT Autonomous Shuttle vehicle.

He is a senior ITS professional with broad experience and a more than 35-year track record in managing and selling complex business and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) services and solutions. With his sound background in the creation, growth, and financial management of an ITS business, he has provided consultancy, M&A, integration, and supply services to the corporate ITS market. He has also contributed to standardization for many years as a Convenor, Head of Delegation, and Expert within ISO TC204 and CEN TC 278.

In Europe, he is well known as a member of several associations and advisory boards, including the Board of Directors of the ITS World Congresses. Robert holds a master’s degree (Dipl.-Inform.) in Computer Science. Robert was awarded the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award in Atlanta in 2025.

Rodolfo H. Torres is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside. He provides a broad vision and executive leadership for campus-wide research initiatives and is responsible for inspiring and managing a diverse portfolio of research and creative activity, as well as economic development activities in coordination with the region, state, and other external partners. Torres’ research interests are in the field of harmonic analyses, which involves finding patterns in complicated sets of data and has applications in both theoretical mathematical concepts as well as signals and images analysis with application in other disciplines.

Dr. Mitch Tseng is a well-known veteran in the international standards community for wireless communications. He had been leading the development of various telecommunication standards in TIA, ETSI SCP, and 3GPP.  His main contribution to the evolution of wireless communications is to help end the separation of 3G wireless technologies and reunite the industry in 4G with his efforts on “CDMA-LTE Interworking” in 3GPP in 2009.  In addition to the work on wireless standards, Mitch has been an avid contributor and leader in Industrial IoT (IIoT) for organizations, such as oneM2M and Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He is now serving as a Vice Chair of the Market & Applications WG in the Next G Alliance (nextgalliance.org) to help the wireless industry migrate towards 6G. He is also active in 5G-ACIA (5g-acia.org) and ISO TC204 (Intelligent Transportation System). After serving Nortel Networks and Nokia for fifteen years, Mitch started his consulting business in 2010.  Guided under the principle of “Maximizing the value of Information by Serving the right information to the right person at the right time!”, Tseng InfoServ, LLC, has been providing consulting services to Huawei Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, and ITRI.  He is also an expert in the US delegation to ISO TC204, focusing on Connecting Vehicles (CVs).  Currently, he is devoted to driving the development of 6G systems through Applications and Services for Verticals with an aim to build a seamless and effortless transition into 6G Day-1. Dr. Tseng received his BSEE degree from Tatung Institute of Technology and both MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).  His latest passion is on applying AI tools to provide ubiquitous connectivity through AI-RAN so as to provide an immersive communication environment to establish seamless Cyber-Physical linkage and provide users with a marvelous personal user experience.

Dr. Guoyuan Wu received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2010, while he had also been employed as a graduate student researcher at the California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH). After the graduation, he was appointed as the Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Research Faculty and Associate Research Faculty in the Transportation Systems Research (TSR) group at the Bourns College of Engineering—Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), UC Riverside, in 2010, 2012 and 2018, respectively. Since July 2022, Dr. Wu has been working as a Full Research Faculty. In addition, he has been holding an Adjunct Professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Riverside since 2017.

Dr. Wu has been conducting research on development and evaluation of sustainable and intelligent transportation systems (SITS), optimization and control of transportation systems (from powertrain, vehicle dynamics, inter-vehicle cooperation, to traffic flows), traffic flow modeling and simulation, and vehicle emissions and powertrain modeling. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications (including book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports) and 3 patents. Furthermore, Dr. Wu serves as an Associate Editor of three prestigious journals, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Open Journal – Intelligent Transportation Systems, and SAE Journal – Connected and Automated Vehicles. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of National Academy of Investors. He is also a member of Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA). Dr. Wu is the recipient of 2020 Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, 2021 Arch T. Colwell Merit Award, 2017 - 2020 IEEE ITS Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, and Gold Award in the CVPR 2025 TUMTraf V2X Grand Challenge.

 Dean Zabrieszach is the Chief Executive of Ohmio and its parent company - HMI Technologies, which is dedicated to the provision of world-leading intelligent transport systems to a range of clients, including transport agencies, governments, and commercial entities. Prior to becoming CEO for HMI Technologies globally, Dean led HMI Technologies in Australia from 2015 through to 2017, successfully establishing HMI Technologies as a challenger, securing major projects for the company, and expanding operations to open offices in three states.

Dean has a strong reputation in the industry in Australia and also globally. In November 2017, Dean became President of ITS Australia after several years as Vice President and Project Director for the highly successful 2016 ITS World Congress in Melbourne. He is a member of the ITS Asia Pacific Board of Directors and World Congress International Program Committee.

Dean's career has seen him hold several senior roles at VicRoads, the Victorian State Government’s Road Authority, including Manager Intelligent Transport Systems, Director Road User Services, and Director Road Operations. Dean holds a BE (Civil) from the University of Melbourne.