Moshe Ben-Akiva is the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab, and Principal Investigator at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
He holds a PhD degree in Transportation Systems from MIT and was awarded honorary degrees from the University of the Aegean. His awards include the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science from the Institute for Operations Research and the
Ben-Akiva has co-authored three books, including the textbook Discrete Choice Analysis, published by MIT Press, and nearly 400 papers in refereed journals or refereed conferences. He has worked as a consultant in industries such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, financial services and marketing for a number of private and public organizations, including Hague Consulting Group, RAND Europe, and Cambridge Systematics. He was recently a member of the Future Interstate Highway System Committee of the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine.