Dr. Adel W. Sadek

Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, USA

Associate Professor

E-mail: [email protected]

Qualifications

1998 Ph.D., University of Virginia, USA

1995 M.Sc., University of Virginia, USA

1991 B.Sc., University of Alexandria, Egypt

Publications(Selected)

1. Meka, H., Gutha, B., & Korzelius, S., et al. (2026). Driving on: Taking our Autoware AV testbed further. 2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops), 2224–2229.
2. Thomas, O., Gedela, R., & Pirangi, A. H., et al. (2026). Constructing a digital twin of a physical testbed: A practical guide for connected autonomous vehicle simulation. 2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops), 2300–2305.
3. Zhang, W., Sadek, A. W., & Qiao, C. (2026). Quantile-physics hybrid framework for safe-speed recommendation under diverse weather conditions leveraging connected vehicle and road weather information systems data. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05053.
4. Korzelius, S., Vadranapu, D., & Thomas, O., et al. (2025). An old dog with new tricks: Lessons from building an AV testbed with Autoware. 2025 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Mobility, Operations, Services and Logistics, 1–6.
5. Okunieff, P., Abounassif, L., & Serulle, N. U., et al. (2025). System design document (SDD)—Buffalo, NY ITS4US deployment project. Federal Highway Administration.
6. Serulle, N. U., Weibler, D., & Okunieff, P., et al. (2025). Operational readiness plan (ORP)—Buffalo, NY ITS4US deployment project. Federal Highway Administration.
7. Shi, Y., Kavvasoglu, C., & Peker, A. U., et al. (2025). Preparing for the deployment of a self-driving shuttle in Buffalo, NY: Safety management plan and deployment route risk assessment. Transportation Research Record, 2679(11), 350–362.
8. Shi, Y., Zhang, W., & Qiao, C., et al. (2025). Leveraging high-resolution connected vehicle data for incident detection, management, and analysis: An exploratory study. Transportation Research Record, 2679(11), 193–206.
9. Okunieff, P., Serulle, N. U., & Weibler, D., et al. (2024). Comprehensive installation plan (CIP)—Buffalo, NY ITS4US deployment project. Federal Highway Administration.
10. Qiao, C., & Sadek, A. (2024). Towards a national CAV certification center. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25(4), 29–53.
11. Liu, X., Zhao, Y., & Sadek, A., et al. (2023). Autonomous electric vehicles as mobile green energy sources. 2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 1–6.
12. Wang, E., Liu, B., & Lin, S., et al. (2023). Double graph attention actor-critic framework for urban bus-pooling system. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(5), 5313–5325.
13. Memar, F. H., Qiao, C., & Sadek, A. W. (2022). Edge-AI enabled automated flaggers for roadway work zone management. 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 1–6.
14. Wang, E., Memar, F. H., & Korzelius, S., et al. (2022). A reinforcement learning approach to CAV and intersection control for energy efficiency. 2022 Fifth International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD), 9–16.
15. Zhang, Y., Wu, C., & Qiao, C., et al. (2022). A cognitive computational model of driver warning response performance in connected vehicle systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(9), 14790–14805.
16. Sadek, A. W., Qiao, C., & Dmowski, R., et al. (2021). Self-driving electric vehicles for smart and sustainable mobility: Evaluation and feasibility study for educational and medical campuses. Transportation Research Board.
17. Shi, Y. F., Bartlett, A. P., & Dmowski, R., et al. (2021). Preliminary safety evaluation of self-driving, low-speed shuttle. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 147(8), Article 04021036.
18. Bartlett, A. P., Qiao, C., He, Q., et al. (2020). Factors affecting international border crossing delays based upon a rich bluetooth dataset. Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, 2(1), 33–47.
19. Chauhan, R., Shi, Y., & Bartlett, A., et al. (2020). Short-term traffic delay prediction at the Niagara frontier border crossings: Comparing deep learning and statistical modeling approaches. Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, 2(2), 93–114.
20. Gupta, A., Khare, A., & Jin, H., et al. (2020). Estimation of road transverse slope using crowd-sourced data from smartphones. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 453–456.

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WOS ResearcherID: HHB-6434-2022