Shashi Nambisan

Dissertation: Airline Safety Posture:  A Study of Aircraft Maintenance-Related Indicators

Advisor: Adib Kanafani

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1987

MS Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

BTech Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1984

University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Present 

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Director, Transportation Research Center 

Professor Nambisan is a serial entrepreneur in academia. He has more than 31 years of experience including 23+ years leading the development and growth of research enterprises. As PI or co-PI, he has led efforts on more than 180 projects, grants, and gifts with awards totaling more than $75 million. Of note, he led efforts in 2018 & 2020 to prepare two winning applications ($17.8 M in Alabama & $15 M in Nevada) to USDOT’s ATCMTD program to develop & deploy novel/ innovative technology-based strategies to enhance safety, capacity, & travel time reliability. His efforts have addressed a broad range of transportation / infrastructure topics with safety, data-analytics, and policy support being prevailing themes. These include efforts with public- and private-sector leaders, advocacy groups, other stakeholders, and professional organizations to support decision making that span the transportation system life cycle and across modes.