Dr. David Lovell is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and he holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research. He is also the Director of the Gemstone Honors Program within the Honors College. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program. He was a Keystone Professor in the A. James Clark School of Engineering for 10 years, and he was faculty advisor for the Engineers Without Borders – UMCP and Maryland Sustainability Engineers student chapters for 8 years. He has led numerous educational and engineering trips with students to countries in Asia, South America, and Africa. He is currently the faculty adviser to the Society of American Military Engineers student post.
Dr. Lovell has been with the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1997. He has also held visiting faculty appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. He is currently Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, and U.S. Program Chair of the International Conference on Research in Air Transportation. His research interests are in surface and air transportation, focusing on problems of facility design, resource allocation, data analytics, and operations research. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics from Portland State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lovell was also a Combat Engineer in the United States Marine Corps.