He received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2005, the M.Sc. degree in transportation safety from George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 2002, and B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in civil engineering from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In 2012 2013 he was a Visiting Scholar with University of California, Berkeley and a Visiting Researcher with BMW Group Technology Office USA in Mountain View, CA. His recent research spans topics in automotive control, intelligent transportation systems, and connected vehicle technologies.