Biography

Ghazan Khan is an expert in the field of Transportation Safety and has over 20 years of research, academic, and practical experience working in the broader field of Transportation Engineering.  He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at California State University Sacramento.  His teaching and research activities encompass a multitude of areas related to Traffic Operations and Safety, Transportation Database and Asset Management, and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Statistics in Transportation Engineering.  Dr. Khan joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Sacramento State in 2013.

Prior to joining Sacramento State, Dr. Khan worked for nine years as an Assistant Researcher, Research Associate, and Research Assistant at the Traffic Operations and Safety (TOPS) Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, leading and working on various national and state sponsored research projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Wisconsin (WisDOT) and Minnesota (MnDOT) Departments of Transportation.

Dr. Khan is the recipient of various national and institutional awards including the 2019 Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award from the California State University System, 2022 Theodore D. Judah Transportation Engineer Award from the ASCE NorCal Section, and the 2017 Jonathan Burdette Brown Education Award from the ASCE Sacramento Section.

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