RESEARCH INTERESTS: Emergency transportation operations, Hurricane resilience, Network modeling, Transportation accessibility and safety, Connected vehicles, Intelligent transportation systems, Smart cities, and Urban mobility.

Eren Erman Ozguven, Associate Professor & Director - Eren Ozguven is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Director of the RIDER Center. Dr. Ozguven is focused on investigating the relationships among different infrastructure networks in Florida, utilizing his academic research in transportation engineering, and background in industrial engineering and optimization. His work examines the simultaneous and interdependent movements of populations—including the aging and other vulnerable groups, and the commodities and services that meet their needs. During this process, he has established long-lasting multi-disciplinary collaborations with researchers from psychology, sociology, public policy, communications, urban planning, geography, civil, electrical and industrial engineering. The research program he created draws from various engineering and science methods including optimization, statistical analysis, human factors, machine learning, traffic and transportation engineering and geography.