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November 14, 2001
Capital Hilton
The Japan International Transport Institute under the
Auspices of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
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Japan International Tranport Institute
SARAH AYERS
1819 L STREET, N.W. SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
PHONE:+1- 202-833-9763
FAX: +1-202-833-9769
jiti@japantransport.com
www.japantransport.com
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Activities of our institute are made possible through the generous assistance of the Nippon Foundation. |
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Chelsea C. White III, Ph.D.
Professor
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
Chelsea C. White received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974 in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering. He is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UM. While at the UM, he has served as Chair of IOE, the College's Senior Associate Dean, the founding CoE Co-Director of what is now the Tauber Manufacturing Institute, and most recently as Interim Chair of IOE. He currently serves as Director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Research Center and Co-Director of the University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program (UMTIP), a program jointly sponsored by CoE and the School of Business. He will become a member of the Georgia Institute of Technology faculty in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, starting 1 January 2002, where he will hold the GFB International Chair of Transportation and Logistics.
He is the founding and current Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS. He has served as the ITS Series book editor for Artech House Publishing Company.
His former involvement within the IEEE includes serving as President of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society from 1992 through 1993. He is a recipient of a 1993 Outstanding Contribution Award and the Norbert Wiener Award in 1999, both from the IEEE SMC Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. The Norbert Wiener Award is the SMC’s highest award recognizing lifetime contributions in research. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a former member of the Executive Board of CIEADH (Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads), and the founding chair of the IEEE TAB Committee on ITS.
He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the ITS World Congress, past President and member of the ITS Michigan Board of Directors, a member of the Board of Directors of ITS America, a member of the Advisory Board of Kinetic Computer Corporation, Billerica, MA, and a member of the Advisory Board of CenterComm Corporation, San Diego, CA.
His recent activities include presentations at the Council on Competitiveness and the Brookings Institution, both of which were concerned with the impact of information technology on international freight distribution, and participation in a joint NSF/USDOT workshop to help develop a 10-year strategic plan for transportation R&D.
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