Sherif Ishak received the Ph.D. degree. He is a Professor and the Department Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering, Old Dominion University. Prior to joining ODU, he was a Professor of civil engineering with Louisiana State University (LSU), and a Professor and the Department Chair of The University of Alabama, Huntsville. He has over 25 years of experience in the field of transportation engineering with emphasis on intelligent transportation systems, traffic operation and control, traffic flow modeling and simulation, traffic safety, human factors and driving behavior, artificial intelligence and advanced computing applications in transportation, and the new emerging area of connected and automated vehicles. Since 2015, he has been serving as the Chair of the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (ABJ70), which promotes and advances interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the fields of transportation engineering and computer science and information technology. He is also a member of the five-year National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) panel for maintaining and executing a research agenda for connected and automated vehicles (CAV) roadmap. He was the Civil Engineering Program Director of the master’s degree students at LSU and the Associate Dean of Academic Programs and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Engineering Science Program. His extensive service record includes serving on the Faculty Senate, the Discover Advisory Board for the master’s degree research, the Communication Across the Curriculum Advisory Council, the College Academic Matters Committee, the College Policy Committee, and other university, college, and departmental committees. He is also an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering.