Daniel Work

  • CIRCLES 100-car test project

    AI-powered cruise control system may pave the way to fuel efficiency and traffic relief

    Vanderbilt University was part of a consortium of academic researchers, working with leading automakers, that recently concluded a five-day test on a stretch of I-24 near downtown Nashville—the largest study of its kind in the world. The researchers tested an AI-powered cruise control system designed to increase fuel savings and ease traffic. Read More

    Nov 23, 2022

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read More

    May 12, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read More

    May 12, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read More

    May 12, 2021

  • Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    Nine faculty named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    Nine outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2021 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. Read More

    May 12, 2021

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    What’s On My Mind: Keeping Vanderbilt moving

    In this week's column, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos discusses MoveVU, the university's mobility strategy, and explores a critical question for Vanderbilt: How do we move our people? Read More

    Nov 14, 2018

  • Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt)

    Expert: Autonomous vehicles could help traffic, but not anytime soon

    Engineer Dan Work says his promising research shows adding autonomous vehicles to roadways could end the stop-and-go traffic that drives commuters insane. Read More

    Apr 30, 2018

  • Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt)

    New faculty: Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering

    Daniel Work can’t think of a better place to research traffic issues than Nashville. He’s bringing his expertise on applying cyber-physical systems—the combination of physical systems with technological advances—to transportation to a city that adds roughly 85 new residents per day. Read More

    Oct 26, 2017