William Barbour

William Barbour

Senior Research Scientist

Vanderbilt University · Institute for Software Integrated Systems

Dr. William Barbour is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. He applies advanced computational techniques, including big data analytics, machine learning, optimization, and artificial intelligence, to transportation systems engineering.

Dr. William Barbour is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. His research applies novel and advanced computational techniques to transportation systems engineering, including big data analytics, machine learning, optimization, and artificial intelligence.

His interests span freight rail operations, pedestrian accessibility, public transit, and transportation policy. Prior to Vanderbilt he worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and CSX Transportation. He also teaches gifted high school students through Vanderbilt Programs for Talented Youth on topics including sensor technology and data analysis.

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Education

    Publications & Pages

    Design, Preparation, and Execution of the 100-AV Field Test for the CIRCLES Consortium: Methodology and Implementation of the Largest Mobile Traffic Control Experiment to Date

    Mostafa Ameli, Sean McQuade, Jonathan W. Lee, Matt Bunting, Matthew Nice, Han Wang, William Barbour, Ryan J. Weightman, Chris Denaro, Ryan Delorenzo, Sharon Hornstein, Jon F. Davis, Dan Timsit, Riley Wagner, Ruotong Xu, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Benjamin Seibold, Dan Work, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre M. Bayen

    IEEE Control Systems

    Jan 2025

    Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs

    Jonathan W. Lee, Han Wang, Kathy Jang, Nathan Lichtlé, Amaury Hayat, Matt Bunting, Arwa Alanqary, William Barbour, Zhe Fu, Xiaoqian Gong, George Gunter, Sharon Hornstein, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Mat-Thew W. Nice, William A. Richardson, Adit Shah, Eugene Vinitsky, Fangyu Wu, Shengquan Xiang, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Fahd Althukair, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Raphael Chekroun, Eric Cheng, Maria Teresa Chiri, Fang-Chieh Chou, Ryan Delorenzo, Marsalis Gibson, Derek Gloudemans, Anish Gollakota, Junyi Ji, Alexander Keimer, Nour Khoudari, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Hossein Nick Zinat Matin, Sean McQuade, Rabie Ramadan, Daniel Urieli, Xia Wang, Yanbing Wang, Rita Xu, Mengsha Yao, Yiling You, Gergely Zachár, Yibo Zhao, Mostafa Ameli, Mirza Najamuddin Baig, Sarah Bhaskaran, Kenneth Butts, Manasi Gowda, Caroline Janssen, John Lee, Liam Pedersen, Riley Wagner, Zimo Zhang, Chang Zhou, Dan Work, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre M. Bayen

    IEEE Control Systems

    Jan 2025

    A Middle Way to Traffic Enlightenment

    Matthew Nice, George Gunter, Junyi Ji, Yuhang Zhang, Matt Bunting, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Dan Work

    2024 ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)

    Jan 2024

    So you think you can track?

    Derek Gloudemans, Gergely Zachár, Yanbing Wang, Junyi Ji, Matthew Nice, Matt Bunting, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre M. Bayen, Benjamin Seibold, Dan Work

    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

    Jan 2024

    Integrated Framework of Vehicle Dynamics, Instabilities, Energy Models, and Sparse Flow Smoothing Controllers

    Jonathan W. Lee, George Gunter, Rabie Ramadan, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Paige Arnold, John Aquino, William Barbour, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Fang-Chieh Chou, Marsalis Gibson, Xiaoqian Gong, Amaury Hayat, Nour Khoudari, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Maya Kumar, Nathan Lichtle, Sean McQuade, Brian Nguyen, Megan Ross, Sydney Truong, Eugene Vinitsky, Yibo Zhao, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre M. Bayen, Dan Work, Benjamin Seibold

    Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems

    Jan 2021