Dr. Michael Mollenhauer is the Director of the Division of Technology Implementation at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute where he has led transportation safety and technology development research programs for over 16 years. He leads a team of researchers and engineers that help customers conduct early-stage deployment and evaluation of connected and automated vehicle systems. More recently, his team has been awarded $10M to implement smart cities technologies in Falls Church, Virginia. Mike's team is also leading VTTI's efforts to develop and demonstrate smart work zone technologies including a work zone design software tool, smart vests, smart helmets, camera-based work zone intrusion detection, and an automated truck mounted attenuator vehicle.

Amy is an "outside-the-box” thinker, who has spent her career facilitating the use of technologies to improve transportation systems. Amy grew up in Taiwan and came to the US for her master's degree from the University of Maryland. She was schooled for multimodal mobility as a consultant in Taiwan and then a planner at Arlington County, Virginia, although her research focus at UMD and FHWA Turner Fairbank in the early 1990's was highway operations. Since joining VDOT, she has held several positions and involved nearly every aspect of ITS projects in Northern Virginia (NoVA) for more than 2 decades and supported many CAV pilot projects in NoVA. Currently, Amy is a Program Manager at VDOT's Office of Strategic Innovations (OSI) and manages the Regional Multi-Modal Mobility Program (RM3P). She strives to turn RM3P vision into reality.

Paul Szatkowski, P.E., is an Assistant Division Administrator for the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Traffic Operations Division. He leads the Operations Delivery area which is responsible for advancing many Operations programs and projects originating from the Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund, Interstate Operations and Enhancement Program, Parking Management Programs, etc. The unit strives to advance the program with project management support, fiscal planning, evaluations, and streamlining delivery activities. Paul has been worked in the Traffic Operations program for 14 years. He has previously worked in the VDOT's transportation security program and special facility maintenance program. Paul holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech.