Kaan Ozbay earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in civil engineering at Virginia Tech University. Dr. Ozbay is an assistant professor at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the Eno Fellowship Award, the author of 25 research proposals, and the principal and co-principal investigator, and project manager of more than 10 ITS projects including the "Wide Area Incident Management " project sponsored by FHWA, and VDOT.