T-ITS Editorial Board Member

Zaher (Zak) M. Kassas is the TRC Endowed Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is the director of the Autonomous Systems Perception, Intelligence, and Navigation (ASPIN) Laboratory. He is also director of the U.S. Department of Transportation Center: CARMEN (Center for Automated Vehicle Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation), focusing on navigation resiliency and security of highly automated transportation systems. He authored more than 180 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 11 magazine articles, and 3 invited book chapters. His awards include the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) YIP award, IEEE Walter Fried Award, IEEE Harry Rowe Mimno Award, Institute of Navigation (ION) Samuel Burka Award, ION Col. Thomas Thurlow Award, and 30+ best paper/presentation awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ION, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.

1. Navigation and localization systems 2. Sensor fusion 3. Communications and signal processing 4. Autonomy