Shashi Nambisan is currently a professor at the

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. He has held various positions previously such as the director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education at

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, United States, where he was also a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering and director of the Las Vegas Transportation Research Center at the

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where he worked for 18 years. He worked on traffic safety and made contributions to road safety in

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. His services were recognized by the

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, who proclaimed January 31, 2007, as Professor Shashi Nambisan Day. He was awarded the Harry Reid Silver State Research award in 2005.UNLV Howard Hughes College of Engineering - Right Now News from the Engineering College
Nambisan graduated from the

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, in Madras (now

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), India, with a B.Tech. degree in

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in 1984. He got his Masters from

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. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the

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. His areas of research interests are Transportation Safety and Risk Analysis, Development of Decision Support Tools, Transportation Planning and Infrastructure Management and Air Transportation.

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