Ben Coifman
Associate Professor
Campus Address:
205 Dreese Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
phone: (614) 292-4282
fax: (614) 292-7596
email: Coifman@ece.osu.edu
Recent Courses
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Eng., 1998
- M.Eng.., University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, 1998
- M.S. University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Eng., 1995
- B.S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Electrical Engineering, 1992
Research Interests
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Traffic Surveillance
- Traffic Control
- Traffic Flow Theory
- Driver Dynamics
- Application of advanced technologies to transportation problems
Honors and Awards
- ITS America - Award for The Best ITS Research in 2000.
- NSF CAREER award, "Traffic congestion on freeways: using probe
vehicle data to understand bottlenecks and mitigate the resulting
problems", October 2002.
- OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award (Individual), 2004
- OSU Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award with M. McCord, R. Mishalani, and P. Goel for Remote Sensing and Traffic Monitoring Applications in Transportation Systems, 2004.
Links
My Civil
Engineering page
Shock wave animations
www.RailFonts.com
email: Coifman@ece.osu.edu