Hi and welcome to my web page! I am Matthew G. Karlaftis, Ph.D. and I am an assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. I earned my BSCE and MSCE degrees from the University of Miami and my Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Purdue University, all in the areas of transportation engineering. I have conducted research in a variety of areas, but my focus has been on public transportation operations and infrastructure management. I have an affinity for statistics and optimization, so most of my work has been quantitatively driven. I have published some papers (that you can find elsewhere in this site) and 1 book in Transportation Econometrics and Statistics (with Simon Washington and Fred Mannering). On my spare, academic at least, time I am an Editor in ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering and a member of the Editorial Board for ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Transportation Research part C, IET Intelligent Transport Systems Journal , and Transportation Quarterly. I have also been involved with a variety of research projects, I review papers for a number of Journals and I love teaching (at NTUA I teach transportation planning, public transportation operations and operations research). I am a member of a variety of professional organizations, a member of professional honor societies (TBP, XE, SX and ODK). Én 2005 I was awarded ASCE\'s \'Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize\' and in 2006 the Fulbright Research Grant Award. | 
