José Holguín-Veras, Ph.D. joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in July 2002. His research focuses on freight transportation modeling, transportation economics, intermodal transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), transportation planning, and information technology.
Dr. Holguín-Veras' past academic positions include Adjunct Professor of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Invited Lecturer of a number of Latin-American universities, Invited Professor at The California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and a faculty member at the City College of New York (1997-2002) where he was an Assistant Professor (1997-2001) and Associate Professor (2002). He has also been an invited panelist and guest speaker for several national and international transportation related forums.
His professional experience includes demand modeling and economic analyses of land use-transportation projects, economic analyses of more than three hundred transportation projects, ranging from rural roads to intermodal transportation projects, in a number of different countries, in more than 25 major transportation projects. He has served as a consultant for several international companies and financial institutions, including: The World Bank, The United Nations, The Inter-American Development Bank, Frederick Harris Inc., and Louis Berger.
Dr. Holguín-Veras received his B.S. in Civil Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1981. He received his M.Sc. from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1984; and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996.