于1974年获麻省理工学院（Massachusetts Institute of Technology）学士和硕士学位，于1978年获加州大学伯克利分校（University of California, Berkeley）博士学位。现任马里兰大学土木工程系终身教授，从事包括道路网络、交通管理系统、公共交通系统、货运物流、内陆航道和机场航空等相关问题的研究，取得了巨大的科研成就，是美国土木交通领域的知名学者。曾担任马里兰大学交通运输工程学科负责人达19年之久，主持多项美国自然科学基金项目，目前已公开发表480余篇论文，共指导毕业38名博士生，其中24名博士在多所世界著名大学获得终身教职。他还曾担任《Journal of Advanced Transportation》和《ASCE’s Journal of Transportation Engineering》期刊的编委和副主编。目前是美国土木工程师协会（ASCE）和美国交通运输工程师协会（ITE）的会士（Fellow）。为了表彰他在土木、交通领域所做出的卓越贡献，ASCE授予了他2018年度“詹姆斯?劳里终身成就奖”。

Abstract：Recent computerized methods for automating the location and design of transportation routes, such as highways, railways and urban rail transit systems can greatly reduce the labor required, account for additional factors and provide better solutions than those from experienced human designers. These methods can also benefit from and process massive amounts of data from recent geographic information systems (GIS). Such methods will be presented for evaluating and optimizing the alignments of highways and rail transit systems, including problems related to intersections and interchanges, bridges and tunnels, constrained modifications of existing alignments, stations along rail transit lines and extensions to small network design. The discussion will include possible objectives and constraints, costs and benefits, various other quantifiable impacts, solution methods and possible directions for future research.