Austin Angulo
PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Topics
Vulnerable road user safety; use of virtual reality to study human interactions with CV/AV technology and alternative roadway designs; development of CV/AV applications; and transportation equity and sustainability
Dr. Austin V. Angulo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University at Buffalo (UB). His research interests include CAV technologies, non-motorized user safety, micromobility modelling, human factors in transportation, virtual reality simulation and transportation planning and sustainability.
Dr. Angulo is the founder and Director of the Transportation Research and Visualization Laboratory (TRAVL), a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the research, training, and education of human interaction with transportation infrastructure using naturalistic and immersive virtual simulation methodologies.
Dr. Angulo received his PhD (’21), MS (’18), and BS (’15) from the University of Virginia where he founded the Omni-Reality and Cognition Laboratory and was a Dwight David Eisenhower Fellow at the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center.
Education
- PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Virginia, 2021
- MS, Civil Engineering, University of Virginia, 2018
- BS, Civil Engineering, University of Virginia, 2015