2026-09-21
Keynote Speaker｜Professor Mohamed Abdel-Aty
University of Central Florida, USA
Professor Mohamed Abdel-Aty is a Trustee Endowed Chair and Pegasus Distinguished Professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He served as Chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering from 2013 to 2023 and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering research in real-time crash risk prediction, proactive traffic management, and connected vehicles. His work integrates artificial intelligence, computer vision, and digital twins to improve transportation safety.
Professor Abdel-Aty has published approximately 1000 papers, including more than 530 journal articles, and his work has received over 45,000 citations on Google Scholar. He has managed more than 100 research projects with total funding of approximately US$35 million.
He is the founder and director of UCF's Smart and Safe Transportation Lab. Under his leadership, the team won the U.S. Department of Transportation's Solving for Safety Visualization Challenge in 2019. He also founded UCF's Future City initiative and helped establish its master's degree program in Smart Cities Engineering.
His numerous honors include the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2019, the Transportation Research Board's Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award in 2020, and the American Road & Transportation Builders Association's S.S. Steinberg Award in 2022. He was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher each year from 2021 to 2026. He received the UCF Medal of Societal Impact in 2025.
Professor Abdel-Aty is Editor Emeritus of Accident Analysis & Prevention and a Fellow of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. His research connects scientific advances with practical solutions for crash prevention and safer and smarter transportation systems.
