Dr. David Lovell is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research. He is Director of the Gemstone Honors program. He is an affiliate professor with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program, and the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security. Dr. Lovell was faculty advisor for the Engineers Without Borders student chapter. He received the EWB-USA Peter J. Bosscher Faculty Adviser Award and the Poole & Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award, and was inducted into the ODK Leadership Fraternity.
Dr. Lovell has been with Maryland since 1997. He also held visiting faculty appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai’i. He is on the Program Committee of the merged International Conference on Research in Air Transportation and Air Traffic Management Seminar. He studies surface and air transportation, particularly facility design, resource allocation, data analytics, and operations research. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics from Portland State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lovell was a Combat Engineer in the United States Marine Corps.
Geometric methods of transportation facility design; sensors in civil engineering applications; vehicle technology; traffic engineering, operations and control; air traffic management; data compression
