Anastasios Kouvelas is the Director of the research group Traffic Engineering and Control at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT), Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich (since August 2018). He has received the Diploma, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Production and Management Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2004, 2006, and 2011, respectively, specializing in modeling, control, and optimization of large-scale transport systems. Prior to joining IVT, he was a Research Scientist at Urban Transport Systems Laboratory (LUTS), EPFL (2014-2018), and a Postdoctoral Fellow with Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at University of California, Berkeley (2012-2014). Before this, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at Technical University of Crete (2011). Dr. Kouvelas has been awarded with the 2012 Best IEEE ITS PhD Dissertation Award from IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. He has been a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee (AHB15) on Intelligent Transportation Systems since 2019. Dr. Kouvelas has served as Associate Editor in the IET Intelligent Transport Systems journal since 2017 and has guest-edited several special issues in transportation journals.