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class="fusion-title-heading title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" style="margin:0;font-size:1em;--fontSize:38;line-height:1.16;text-shadow:2px 2px 3px #0f0f0f;">IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award</h1></div><nav class="fusion-breadcrumbs fusion-no-small-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility awb-yoast-breadcrumbs fusion-breadcrumbs-1" style="--awb-alignment:center;--awb-breadcrumb-sep:'/';text-align:center;" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><span><span><a href="https://ieee-itss.org/">Home</a></span> » <span><a href="https://ieee-itss.org/awards/">Awards</a></span> » <span class="breadcrumb_last" aria-current="page">IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award</span></span></nav></div></div></div></div> </section> <main id="main" class="clearfix "> <div class="fusion-row" style=""> <section id="content" style="float: right;"> <div id="post-142" class="post-142 page type-page status-publish hentry"> <span class="entry-title rich-snippet-hidden">IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award</span><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ieee-itss.org/author/tduhamel/" title="Posts by Tom Duhamel" rel="author">Tom Duhamel</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-08-08T17:44:28-04:00</span> <div class="post-content"> <p>The <b>ITS Institutional Lead Award</b> is given to those who have made significant and outstanding contributions to the research and applications of ITS-related technologies. This award was established to recognize, promote, stimulate, and publicize major contributions to institutional ITS leadership.</p> <h2>Description</h2> <p>For those who have made significant and outstanding contributions to the research and applications of ITS related technologies. This award is established to recognize, promote, stimulate and publicize major research contributions and outstanding achievement in ITS related fields. (Established in 2010)</p> <h2>Prize</h2> <p>$1,000 and certificate of award.</p> <h2>Eligibility</h2> <p>For group nominations, the lead member of the group should be an active member of IEEE as well as IEEE ITSS Society.</p> <h2>Basis for Judging</h2> <p>Significance, impact, innovation, and quality of ITS applications in practical systems. Each factor will be ranked on a scoring scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the best and 10 being the worst. The scores from each selection committee member are collected and the candidate receiving the lowest average score is the winner.</p> <h2>Presentation</h2> <p>ITSS annual ITS conference.</p> <h2>Past Awardees</h2> <table id="tablepress-4" class="tablepress tablepress-id-4"> <thead> <tr class="row-1"> <th class="column-1">Year<br /> </th><th class="column-2">Awardee</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="row-striping row-hover"> <tr class="row-2"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2023</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>Long Chen and his team: Yunfeng Ai, Bin Tian, Jian Wang, Lingxi Li</strong> Waytous Inc., China<br /> For leading the development of autonomous driving technology and its applications in unmanned mining.</td> </tr> <tr class="row-3"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2022</strong></td><td class="column-2">No award given</td> </tr> <tr class="row-4"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2021</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C²M²) - Clemson University</strong><br /> Director: Mashrur “Ronnie” Chowdhury<br /> Citation: Contributions to cyber-physical transportation systems by addressing sensing, communication and computing aspects of computerized mobility</td> </tr> <tr class="row-5"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2020</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>The Bourns College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research & Technology (CE-CERT) - University of California, Riverside</strong><br /> Director: Matthew Barth<br /> Citation: Contributions to Environmental Technologies to Improve Transportation, Air Quality, and Energy Efficiency</td> </tr> <tr class="row-6"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2019</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong><strong>Robesafe Lab, University of Alcalá<br /> </strong></strong>Director: Luis Miguel Bergasa</td> </tr> <tr class="row-7"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2018</strong></td><td class="column-2">N/A</td> </tr> <tr class="row-8"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2017</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>TU Delft Automated Research Program</strong><br /> Director: Bart van Arem<br /> Citation: For leading the development of connected and autonomous vehicles</td> </tr> <tr class="row-9"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2016</strong></td><td class="column-2">N/A</td> </tr> <tr class="row-10"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2015</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>LISA: Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles</strong><br /> Director: Professor Mohan M. Trivedi</td> </tr> <tr class="row-11"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2014</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics</strong><br /> Xi’an Jiaotong University</td> </tr> <tr class="row-12"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2013</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>Chris Urmson</strong><br /> Google Self-Driving Car Team, Google, USA</td> </tr> <tr class="row-13"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2012</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>Institute of Automotive Engineering, TU Darmstadt</strong><br /> Citation: For Institutional Leadership in Research and System Engineering for Advanced Driver Assistance and Safety.</td> </tr> <tr class="row-14"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2011</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory (DSSL)</strong><br /> The Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece</td> </tr> <tr class="row-15"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2010</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>CAST (Complex Adaptive Systems for Transportation) Lab</strong><br /> Chinese Academy of Sciences</td> </tr> <tr class="row-16"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2009</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>NavLab, Carnegie Mellon University</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="row-17"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2008</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>VisLab, Parma University, Italy</strong></td> </tr> <tr class="row-18"> <td class="column-1"><strong>2007</strong></td><td class="column-2"><strong>PATH, University of California, Berkeley</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>  </div> </div> </section> <aside id="sidebar" class="sidebar fusion-widget-area fusion-content-widget-area fusion-sidebar-left fusion-awards fusion-sticky-sidebar" style="float: left;" data=""> <div class="fusion-sidebar-inner-content"> <div id="text-5" class="widget widget_text" style="border-style: solid;border-color:transparent;border-width:0px;"><div class="heading"><h4 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