Recent PhD graduate Sikai Chen has been selected to receive the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Milton Pikarsky Award, a national level prize.

This prestigious award recognizes one outstanding PhD dissertation in transportation science and technology. Sikai's dissertation is titled, "Safety Implications of Roadway Design and Management: New Evidence and Insights in The Traditional and Emerging (Autonomous Vehicle) Operating Environments."

He has been invited to attend the CUTC Awards Banquet on Saturday, January 11, 2020, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., where he will receive his award.

Sikai Chen is a recently graduated PhD who worked with Professor Samuel Labi in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at CCAT and Visiting Research Fellow at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University.