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Thank you Juanwu LU for the well organized and thorough presentation today about Neural Variational Agents: Towards Learning Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Traffic Simulator. Key notes from LU's presentation: - Goal based motion forecasting uses a two stage decision processes based off of a destination and determining a path to said destinations. Their results using Goal-Based Neural Variation Agent (GNeVA) included models that maintain performance when applied to unseen scenarios and are able to preform with varying datasets. - Sequential motion forecasting investigates distribution of trajectory. So, instead of destination, can we predict uncertainty at each of the future steps? Their tests using Sequential Neural Variational Agents (SeNeVA) included the following key components: track encoders, map encoders, global encoders, mixture models, and assignment networks. - For their closed loop simulations, they used a Neural interactive agents (NICA) framework. The core architecture of NICA is adaptive-norm transformer which allows the model to produce interactions consistent with desired high level behaviors while respecting map and traffic constraints. By sampling different styles and intentions, NICA generated diverse and plausible futures from the same history. Thank you for the great questions and contributions to this week's seminar. We look forward to seeing you all next week for another transportation engineering graduate presentation. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Thank you Satish Ukkusuri for the detailed presentation about Leveraging AI for Transit Planning: From Data Scarcity to Actionable Insights. Traditional transit planning methods (household surveys, manual counts, and ridership records) are increasingly insufficient for understanding complex mobility patterns, particularly in data-scarce environments. This presentation demonstrates how artificial intelligence and passive big data sources can transform transit planning practice, offering unprecedented insights into travel behavior, system performance, and resilience. Drawing from applied work across cities from four continents, including Indianapolis, Delhi, Chennai, Mexico City, and West African capitals, we present a comprehensive AI analytics toolkit using mobile phone location data. The methodology enables extraction of multimodal origin-destination matrices, transit stop utilization patterns, and route-level demand forecasting at granular spatial and temporal scales. We conclude by examining implementation challenges: algorithmic interpretability, data bias mitigation, and the critical gap between analytical capability and policy integration. As agencies confront demands for greater sustainability, these AI-driven tools offer transformative potential when thoughtfully deployed. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Are you interested in attending the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington DC this year? TRB is one of the largest transportation conferences in the world with thousands of transportation professionals from around the world. This year TRB will be January 11-15, 2026. In order to apply for an all expenses covered scholarship as an undergraduate civil engineering student please click here: https://lnkd.in/gAn_8yFN For more information about TRB, please refer to our website!  https://lnkd.in/g-vAT4G4

Thank you Maureen Huffer Landis and the Purdue University Center for Career Opportunities for an insightful presentation on growing and improving networking skills! Key takeaways: - Treat people like mentors. Think, “How can I learn more from you?” - S. T. A. R. method for interviews - Where can I network?  - Career fairs - Conferences - Community/social gatherings - Everywhere! Additional resources: - Visit: cco.purdue.edu - WiseDoc - Big Interview Thank you everyone for attending. We hope this week's seminar helps with Civil Engineering Student Advisory Council (CESAC) - Purdue University's career fair next week, Thursday, October 9th. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Join us tomorrow for Purdue ITE's Weekly Seminar, Tuesday, September 30th @ 3:30 PM, HAMP 1144. This week the Purdue University Center for Career Opportunities (CCO) will be discussing how to "Ace that Interview" in preparation for the Civil Engineering Student Advisory Council (CESAC) - Purdue University Career Fair next week. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Thank you Shiveswarran Ratneswaran for the detailed presentation about Knowledge Graph Embedding for Spatio-Temporal Representation Learning of Urban Mobility Networks. Key notes from Ratneswaran's presentation: - Efficient spatial-temporal representations for Urban Mobility do the following: - Forecast of short term/long term demand - Future ride share matching/repositioning - Ride sharing recommendations/willingness (behavior modeling) - Assist with urban city planning and development Thank you for the great participation and contribution to this week's seminar. Looking forward to seeing all of you next week for another transportation engineering graduate presentation. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Thank you Can Cui for the elaborate presentation about ViLaD: A Large Vision Language Diffusion Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving. Key notes from Cui's presentation: - ViLaD represents a paradigm shift by adapting Vision Language Models to overcome Autoregressive model approaches. - ViLaD provides diffusion based generation model which differs from traditional left to right generation models. - Diffusion based generation models allow for the reconstruction of data from noise via parallel generation, bidirectional reasoning, and easy to hard refinement. Thank you for the excellent participation and contribution to this week's seminar. We look forward to seeing you all next week for another transportation engineering graduate presentation. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Thank you Dr. Cesar Queiroz for a wonderful interactive session last Thursday. Dr. Cesar Queiroz, Consultant to The World Bank, shared his insights regarding “Life and Lessons from the World Bank" highlighting logistics of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and career paths within The World Bank. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue CEGSAC - Civil Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Council

Great attendance at Purdue ITE’s fall 2025 callout!! ✈️🚗🚲🚄 Thanks everyone for a fun couple of rounds of traffic bowl, we hope you learned a thing or two! 🚦🚧 Keep your eyes peeled for our next meeting and please feel free to stop by next weeks seminar on Tuesday, September 16th in HAMP 1144 @ 3:30 pm. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue

Today we had the pleasure of hearing from PhD candidate Deepak Benny about the Fundamentals of Project Finance for Transportation Infrastructure. Benny's research focuses on infrastructure financing strategies, including optimizing federal grant matching, designing equitable EV taxation, and advancing alternative funding mechanisms such as PPPs. He holds a master's degree in Sustainable Engineering and an MBA with a concentration in infrastructure finance. Deepak is a Fellow of the International Road Federation (Class of 2025), Young Professionals in Infrastructure (2024), and the Eno Leadership Development Conference (2025). He actively contributes to the field as a member of the ASCE Committee on Economics and Finance, the ASCE Committee on Infrastructure Systems, and the TRB Standing Committee on Economics, Finance, and Investment Strategy (AQB16). At Purdue, he serves as Vice President of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute Student Chapter. Thank you all who participated and contributed to this weeks seminar. We are eager to see how you all will continue your careers in advancing research in transportation engineering. ITE—A Community of Transportation Professionals ITE Great Lakes District Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue