Dr. Deogratias Eustace, chair and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Dayton. He holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Kansas State University and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. Before his employment at the University of Dayton, he held positions at URS Corporation and Kansas State University. ​​​​​ ​He is the director of the Transportation Research Group and Transportation Lab, which focuses on traffic control and analysis, system planning, model development and testing, intelligent transportation system evaluation, highway safety assessment, and crash data analysis. He is also a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a reviewer of the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, etc.