Location
UMTRI
2901 Baxter Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone
(734) 615-6975
Primary Website
Name of lab or center, linked to website
Additional Appointments
Chief Science Officer, U.S. Department of Transportation
Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation
Associate professor, U-M Ford School
Affiliated faculty member, U-M IOE
Education
PhD. Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Research Interests/Expertise
In 2021, Robert C. Hampshire was appointed as the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as the Chief Science Officer for the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is on leave from his positions at UM that include associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, research associate professor in both the U-M Transportation Research Institute’s (UMTRI) Human Factors group and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE). He develops and applies operations research, data science, and systems approaches to public and private service industries. His research focuses on the management and policy analysis of emerging networked industries and innovative mobility services such as smart parking, connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing, bike sharing, and car sharing. He has worked extensively with both public and private sector partners worldwide. He is a queueing theorist that uses statistics, stochastic modeling, simulation and dynamic optimization.
Service
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) – Minority Issues Forum, Program Chair 2009-2012.
– Applied Probability Society
– Public Sector Applications, Program Chair, 2013.
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
– Member of AP020: Emerging and Innovation Transportation committee
Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS)
-Organizer of the 23rd Annual Meeting, June 21-25, 2017.
Awards
2019 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper – Innovative Applications of OR
2017 – National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) Blackwell Lecture
2012 – National Science Foundation, CAREER Award
Key Projects
- National Science Foundation RAPID: Improving Transportation Equity to Enhance Food Security for Families Vulnerable to COVID-19 (6/1/20-12/31/20), Principal Investigator.
- Public Interest Technology: Career paths and constraints face by persons of color, New Venture Fund, 10/1/19-12/31/2020, Principal Investigator
- Parking Cruising Analysis Methodology, Federal Highways Administration, 10/1/19-12/31/2021, Principal Investigator
- National Science Foundation RAISE: C-Accel Pilot – Track A1 (Open Knowledge Network): Network for Equity in the Era of Driverless Vehicles, National Science Foundation, 9/1/19 – 5/31/20, Principal Investigator
- Framework for Integrative Data Equity Systems (FIDAS), National Science Foundation, 9/1/19 – 6/31/20, Co-Investigator
Student Engagement
Member – James Fishelson –Urban Planning, University of Michigan, successful defense date Jan 15, 2018.
- Accepted position at Ford Motor Company.
Chair – Tayo Fabusuyi, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, successfully defended November 2016.
- Accepted research fellow position at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Co-Chair – Luo Qi –Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, defended.
- Accepted postdoc at Cornell University
- Accepted faculty position at Clemson University
Chair – Katsunobu Sasanuma –Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, successful defense date July 31, 2015.
- Accepted faculty position at SUNY Buffalo School of Business
Member – Shannon Harris , Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, successful defense, July 2016.
Member – Jean Kang-Ching, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, successfully defended, 6/16.
- Accepted research fellow position at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Member – Stephen Zoef – member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, successfully defended May 2015.
- Accepted position at DOT Volpe
Changmi Jung, member, Carnegie Mellon University, Public Policy and Management, defense date July 31, 2013
Sam Garman, chair, Carnegie Mellon University, Public Policy and Management, proposal date July 31, 2010.
Hometown
Lima, Ohio
Personal Interests/Hobbies
I love, love, love basketball. At all levels and places.