Ram Pendyala is a Professor in and the Director of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University where he teaches courses and conducts research in transportation systems engineering and mobility analytics. He was previously the Frederick R Dickerson Chair and Professor of Transportation Systems in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology for a period of two years between 2014 and 2016. He is an expert in the analysis of transportation systems and focuses on understanding and modeling traveler behavior and values under a wide variety of geographic, spatio-temporal, and policy scenarios. He has pioneered the development of new activity-based travel demand model systems, including the application of such models to forecast the impact of emerging and disruptive transportation technologies.