Achievement

James Biagioni completed a highly successful year as a PhD student and IGERT fellow doing transportation science research. He successfully completed his preliminary examination, a milestone in the progress of all Computer Science Phd candidates, in Feb, 2012. James' work on the Easy Track app, which is available for free to users of iPhones, resulted in a best presentation award at ACM SenSys 2011 held in Seattle. His poster, entitled "Easy Tracker: Automatic Transit Tracking, Mapping and Arrival Time Prediction Using Smartphones", won second place at the UIC Student Research Forum presentations. In addition, James was nominated for and won the highly prestigious Dean's Scholar Award for research. This award will provide funding for James in the 2012-2013 academic year.