Majbah Uddin
R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Dr. Majbah Uddin is an R&D staff member in the Transportation Analytics and Decision Sciences group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He specializes in freight and passenger transportation research and leads multidisciplinary teams in multiyear research projects. As PI or co-PI, he has led research projects sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department of Transportation (DOT), the New York State Department of Transportation, and ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development.
Dr. Uddin’s areas of expertise include AI and machine learning for transportation operations, transportation system resilience to extreme weather and supply chain disruption, freight flow modeling and national freight data, optimization under uncertainty, and travel behavior analysis. His current work applies this expertise to truck size and weight research and to multi-agent AI systems for resilient and energy-efficient regional transportation operations. He also serves as the ORNL lead for the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF), the national freight flow dataset used by federal and state DOTs, national laboratories, and industry.
To date, Dr. Uddin has authored or co-authored more than 90 publications, including 26 journal articles (17 first-authored), 7 conference papers, 2 book chapters, and more than 60 technical reports. He has also developed national datasets, decision-support tools, and registered software. His honors include an invitation to the National Academy of Engineering German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, the Most Cited Article Award from the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, the Best Paper Award from Safety, and the University of South Carolina (USC) Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Award.
Dr. Uddin serves as a Handling Editor for Transportation Research Record and a Review Editor for Frontiers in Future Transportation, and he is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Freight Rail Transportation and Supply Chain Reliability. He has reviewed more than 200 papers for over 20 journals and conferences, including Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part D, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accident Analysis & Prevention, and Scientific Reports. He is also an IEEE Senior Member and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Dr. Uddin received his PhD and MS degrees in civil engineering and his master’s degree in applied statistics from USC, and his BS degree in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.