Graduate Student
Purdue University
Lafayette, IN, United States
Ricardo is a Ph.D. student studying transportation engineering originally from Lebanon. He completed his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in May 2019, fully funded by the University Scholarship Program. As an undergraduate student, he pursued research focusing on traffic safety and human factors, and was responsible for designing a simulator environment to assess the influence of cellphone use on driver performance. In 2020, he obtained his master's in civil engineering from LAU with the thesis "Analysis of the Lebanese Driver's Behavior at the Onset of Yellow Lights." He was an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter at LAU. He joined the Sustainable Transportation Systems Research Group in August 2020. He has worked since on research focusing on shared mobility operations and perceptions in Chicago, Indianapolis, Mineapolis, and New York City. In 2021-2022, he served as the president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Purdue chapter and eventually won the ITE International Best Student Chapter Award.
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