{"601807":{"#nid":"601807","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Coogan Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESam Coogan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled \u0026ldquo;Correct-By-Design Control of Traffic Flow Networks.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds a joint appointment in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He joined Georgia Tech in August 2017 after serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday\u0026#39;s cities accommodate more people than ever before, leading to transportation networks that operate at or near capacity. In addition, the next generation of transportation systems will include connected vehicles, connected infrastructure, and increased automation, and these advances must coexist with legacy technology into the foreseeable future. Accommodating these rapidly developing advancements requires smarter and more efficient use of existing infrastructure with guarantees of performance, safety, and interoperability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of Coogan\u0026rsquo;s project is to develop fundamental theory and domain-driven techniques for controlling traffic flow in large-scale transportation networks. Recent advances in inexpensive sensors, wireless technology, and the Internet of Things (IoT) enable real-time connectivity of vehicles and infrastructure that offers abundant data and unprecedented opportunities for efficient and optimized transportation systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe main technical goal of the project is to develop techniques and algorithms that are correct-by-design, ensuring that these transportation systems satisfy required operating specifications. In pursuit of this goal, the project will first develop models of traffic flow from rich data streams and then will leverage these models to enable scalable control approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, this project will integrate a forward-looking education plan that will introduce a\u0026nbsp;Control Grand Challenge design competition in the\u0026nbsp;introductory course in control theory for undergraduates.\u0026nbsp;For this competition, students will design a controller for an autonomous, scale-model car and then compete with their design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Sam Coogan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled \u0026ldquo;Correct-By-Design Control of Traffic Flow Networks.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor\u00a0Sam Coogan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled \u201cCorrect-By-Design Control of Traffic Flow Networks.\u201d"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-02-02 21:17:07","changed_gmt":"2018-02-02 21:17:07","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594985":{"id":"594985","type":"image","title":"Sam Coogan","body":null,"created":"1503597637","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 18:00:37","changed":"1503597637","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 18:00:37","alt":"photograph of Sam Coogan","file":{"fid":"226753","name":"Sam Coogan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":159508,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sam%20Coogan.jpg?itok=XDN5YKvj"}}},"media_ids":["594985"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/samuel-coogan","title":"Sam Coogan"},{"url":"http:\/\/coogan.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Research and Education website for Sam Coogan"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov","title":"National Science Foundation "}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171007","name":"Sam Coogan"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"97281","name":"autonomous vehicles"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"7842","name":"NSF CAREER Award"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"167864","name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"id":"109081","name":"transportation systems"},{"id":"87371","name":"CONNECTED vehicles"},{"id":"172","name":"infrastructure"},{"id":"176997","name":"large-scale transportation networks"},{"id":"176998","name":"traffic flow models"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}