Speakers

Dr. Saied Taheri is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, known as Virginia Tech (VT). He has been the founding director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Tire Research (CenTiRe) since 2012. He has 35 years of academic and industrial experience in automotive engineering (tire and vehicle dynamic modeling and design), dynamics and control, intelligent systems, and data analytics with applications in intelligent tires and vehicles, vehicle dynamics and control, and automotive and transportation safety. Prior to joining VT in 2007, he was a senior engineer at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and an adjunct professor at the University of Akron (1998-2007) and earlier worked at Ford Scientific Research Labs and TRW Automotive, and as an assistant professor at Tehran Polytechnic Institute. He has directed 10 post-docs/visiting scholars, 28 doctoral dissertations and 65 master theses (includes Tehran Polytechnic). His sponsored research has reached $21M. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University in 1984, 1986, and 1990, respectively.