Leadership
Austin Valentine Angulo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Enviornmental Engineering
Austin V. Angulo joined the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo in 2022. His research focuses on pedestrian and bicyclist safety, roadway design, virtual reality simulation, connected and autonomous vehicles, human factors, and sustainable transportation. Angulo was a Dwight David Eisenhower Fellow at the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center where he worked on connected vehicle applications for pedestrian safety and helped found the Omni-Reality and Cognition Lab at the University of Virginia where he completed his PhD.
Angulo is involved in the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation & Development Institute (ASCE TD&I), Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), and Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
Kevin Hulme, CMSP, PhD
TRAVL Support Staff
Kevin F. Hulme, CMSP, PhD is a senior staff associate with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and serves as the program manager for the Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics. His current interest areas include applied modeling and simulation (M&S), transportation engineering, vehicle modeling, simulation science, game-based approaches in engineering education, human factors, and advanced air mobility.
Hulme is a Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional (CMSP), a high professional distinction endorsed by the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA).
Ye Wang
PhD Student
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Ye Wang joined the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo in summer 2023 as PhD Student under the supervision of assistant professor Austin V. Angulo. Ye Wang obtained his Master of Engineering degrees from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research topics include transportation planning, transportation safety analysis, mixed reality and 3D modeling, machine learning algorithms on sensor data, and computer vision applications.
Wang also has professional experience as a transportation engineer, data analyst, and front-end developer within university medical research labs and is a certified EIT in Virginia.
