Monica Menendez

  • Professor NYUAD

  • Global Network Professor NYU

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Monica Menendez

Monica Menendez is, since January 2018, an Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University in Abu Dhabi; and a Global Network Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering in New York University.

Between 2010 and 2017, Monica was the Director of the research group Traffic Engineering at ETH Zurich. Prior to that, she was a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. She joined Bain after receiving a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2006. During her studies there she received, among other awards, an NSF Fellowship and the Gordon F. Newell Award. In total, she is the recipient of more than 20 scholarships and awards from well-known and prestigious organizations, professional societies, and universities. Monica also holds a dual degree in Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering from the University of Miami, from where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2002.

She is an active reviewer for over 20 journals, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Transportation Research Part C and the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, as well as the Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics committee of the Transportation Research Board. Monica is the author of over 40 peer reviewed journal publications and over 100 conference proceedings and reports.

Research Interests
Her research interests include monitoring, modeling, and control of multimodal transportation systems, considering new technologies and data sources.

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May 3, 2021