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Leila Hajibabai<\/strong> earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 2014 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also received an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering. She previously earned an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 2006 from Tehran University and a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 2004 from K.N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n

Before joining NC State, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, following her tenure as a faculty member at Washington State University.<\/p>\n

Hajibabai is an active member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and has made significant contributions to the professional activities of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. She is involved with the Transportation Network Modeling Standing Committee, the Emerging Technologies in Network Modeling Subcommittee, and the Standing Committee on Maintenance Equipment. She also serves as a co-chair of the Operations and Preservation Group within the TRB Young Members Council and actively participates in the Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS. 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