Faculty DirectoryVasilis Volakakis
Assistant Professor of Instruction in the McCormick Office of Undergraduate Engineering
Contact
2133 Sheridan RoadFord 2.205
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
Email Vasilis Volakakis
Departments
Affiliations
Education
PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
MS, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
MS, Production Engineering & Management (Industrial Engineering), Technical University of Crete
BS, Production Engineering & Management (Industrial Engineering), Technical University of Crete
Research Interests
Vasilis is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and McCormick first-year Academic Adviser. He also serves as a Design Thinking and Communication instructor. His research areas of interest are focused on transportation engineering, specifically in multimodal freight transportation, optimization and operations research, aviation, traffic flow theory, and traffic control.
Selected Publications
Volakakis, V., & Mahmassani, H. S. (2024). Vertiport infrastructure location optimization for equitable access to urban air mobility. Infrastructures, 9(12), 239.