Ryan Avery

Ryan Avery is an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a senior transportation engineer at the firm WSP |Parsons Brinckerhoff. He worked on the Sound Transit 2 program and the Alaskan Way Viaduct project, and he has international experience with the Dubai Integrated Rail Transit Master Plan. Avery has also done work for the Centre for Traffic Research at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Washington.

Education

University of Washington Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Field Of StudyCivil Engineering Dates attended or expected graduation 2005 – 2008

Activities and Societies: Swedish Club, Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers On scholarship/exchange to KTH in Sweden from 2005-2007. Dissertation topic on classifying road vehicles using uncalibrated surveillance video cameras.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology Field Of StudyCivil Engineering Dates attended or expected graduation 2005 – 2007

On exchange performing research at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm, Sweden. I worked with Ingmar Andréasson on a project to build a web-based driving simulator to study driver behavior in response to traffic information.

University of Washington Degree NameMaster's Degree Field Of StudyCivil Engineering Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2005

Activities and Societies: Swedish Club, Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers Masters focused on transportation engineering. My masters thesis was the development of a region-growing method for estimating speed and classifying vehicles using single-loop inductive detectors on Washington State highways.

Colorado State University Degree NameBachelor's Degree Field Of StudyCivil Engineering Grade3.98/4.0 Magna Cum Laude Dates attended or expected graduation 1998 – 2002

Activities and Societies: Triangle Fraternity, President's Leadership Program, Tau Beta Pi, Golden Key, marching band President's Leadership Program, Triangle Fraternity, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Golden Key, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Marching Band