Dr. Wei (David) Fan currently serves as a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). He is the Director of the USDOT University Transportation Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education. Dr. Fan holds a Ph.D. (May 2004) in Civil Engineering – Transportation from the University of Texas at Austin (Hook ’em Horns!). He was a Senior Analytical Optimization Software Developer for the R&D Department at SAS Institute Inc., located in Cary, North Carolina, from June 2004 – August 2006.