Daniel Work

Daniel Work is an assistant professor and Excellence Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree (2006) from the Ohio State University, and a Master of Science (2007) and Ph.D. (2010) from the University of California, Berkeley, each in civil engineering.  Work was a guest researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond in 2010 and a visiting researcher at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto from 2008-2010 prior to joining the faculty at Illinois.  His research interests are control, estimation, and optimization of transportation systems, mobile sensing, and inverse modeling & data assimilation. Prof. Work’s honors and awards include the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2014) The Faculty Fellow Award from the National Center for Super Computing Applications (2014), and the IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award (2011).