Kyle Bathgate

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Kyle Bathgate portrait Curriculum Vitae

Education and Licensure

Background

I am from Carbondale, a town in southern Illinois. I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for my undergraduate studies in civil engineering, with a primary focus in transportation and a secondary focus in hydrology. At UIUC, I participated in undergraduate research in the lab of Dr. Jeffery Roesler, where I assisted with concrete pavement testing and analysis. I also gained valuable design and construction inspection experience for roadway reconstruction and water, sanitary, and storm sewer projects as an intern for an engineering consultant in Champaign, Illinois. I further gained professional experience as an intern for a pavement management consultant, where I performed pavement inspections.

For my graduate studies, I attended the University of Texas at Austin, first working under the supervision of the late Dr. Zhanmin Zhang in the Resilient Infrastructure and Smart Cities (RISC) Lab while completing my Master's degree. For my doctoral studies, I worked with Dr. Stephen Boyles in the Simulation, Parking, Autonomous vehicles, Routing, & Traffic Assignment (SPARTA) lab. My dissertation focused on methods to assess the resilience of maritime freight transportation systems. I used vessel tracking data to observe the anchorage queue response to hurricane and fog disruptions at the Port of Houston, and developed metrics to quantify various aspects of the responses along the dimensions of resilience. Using discrete-event simulation to model multimodal port operations in conjunction with the anchorage queue metrics, I demonstrated how the metrics may be used to aid with port planning.

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Science at Duquesne University. I conduct research on transportation and infrastructure system resilience and teach fundamental civil engineering courses such as statistics and transportation engineering.

When I am not working on campus, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I love being outdoors, and I enjoy running, biking, swimming, and kayaking. I also play guitar, and I am an avid player and listener of classic country and bluegrass music.