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Srinivas Peeta is the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair and Professor, with a joint appointment in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in August of 2018, he spent 24 years at Purdue University, where he held the position of the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor in Civil Engineering. At Purdue, he also served as the Director of the NEXTRANS Center, which functioned as the USDOT’s Region 5 Regional University Transportation Center (UTC) from 2007 to 2018. Additionally, he served as the Associate Director of the USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, the USDOT Region 5 UTC (2016-2022) led by the University of Michigan.

Dr. Peeta's educational background includes earning his B. Tech., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and The University of Texas at Austin, respectively. During his career, he held various leadership roles, including Chair of the Transportation Network Modeling Committee (ADB30) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies from 2007 to 2013, and he was a member of the Travel Analysis Methods Section. He also served as a board member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Transportation Systems and chaired the TRB sub-committee on Route Choice and Spatio-Temporal Behavior from 2002 to 2008.

Dr. Peeta is actively involved in various research areas spanning multiple disciplines. His research interests encompass topics such as modeling and analysis of large-scale transportation systems, addressing interdependencies among infrastructure systems, the role of information in transportation systems, modeling human behavior and learning associated with drivers and travelers, integrated supply-demand-performance models for strategic planning and real-time operations, understanding linkages between transportation, energy, and the environment, modeling policy options impacting transportation system evolution, and applying systems and system-of-systems perspectives to address complex adaptive systems, including connected and automated transportation. His research utilizes control theory, operations research techniques, and advanced computational methods to study large-scale transportation networks. Notably, his work in dynamic traffic assignment played a pivotal role in the U.S. Department of Transportation's development of a deployable architecture for real-time route guidance in transportation systems equipped with advanced information dissemination technologies. Additionally, his research contributed to holistic disaster response strategies by examining interdependencies among critical infrastructure systems from a network perspective. Dr. Peeta's research has received substantial funding, exceeding $48 million from various sources, including the USDOT, NSF, FHWA, Indiana DOT, US DOE, NASA, US Department of Education, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, and Indo-US Science & Technology Forum. Moreover, he supervised five dissertations that received best dissertation awards from organizations such as the Council of University Transportation Centers and the International Association for Travel Behavior Research.

Srinivas' significant contributions extended to the development of the DYNASMART series (DYNASMART-P and DYNASMART-X) software for the Federal Highway Administration, providing advanced tools for transportation network planning and real-time traffic operations and control. He is a prolific author, with over 345 technical publications, including more than 280 in peer-reviewed journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has delivered over 480 talks and lectures in numerous countries, including more than 120 invited keynote, plenary, and seminar series talks. Dr. Peeta held editorial positions on several prestigious journals, including Transportation Research Part B, Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal, Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Frontiers in Built Environment: Transportation and Transit Systems, and Transportation in Developing Economies. He served as the Area Editor for Transportation Dynamics for the journal Networks and Spatial Economics and was on the Advisory Board for the Korean Society of Civil Engineering's Journal of Civil Engineering. Throughout his career, Dr. Peeta garnered numerous accolades and awards, such as the INFORMS Transportation Science Best Dissertation Award (1994), NSF CAREER Award (1997), Wansik Excellence in Research Award (2004), Exceptional Paper Award from TRB's Traffic Signal Systems Committee (2007), Purdue's Seed for Success Award (2007-2013), ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize (2009), AATT Best Paper Award (2009), and the UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award, Australia (2010), among others.

In his role as Director of the NEXTRANS Center from 2006 to 2018, Dr. Peeta spearheaded various initiatives related to research, education, and outreach. These initiatives included overseeing the Center's research selection process, establishing research and education collaborations with numerous US and international universities, and launching programs like undergraduate student internships, high school student competitions, K-12 outreach, and internship opportunities for underrepresented student groups. He also organized events like the NEXTRANS Seminar Series, collaborated with public and private sector entities through joint meetings, and chaired the 2009 US-Canada Border Conference, among other achievements.