Kumares C. Sinha is Edgar B. & Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He was a Visiting Professor of Civil and Environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a Lockheed Martin Guest Professor of Engineering at University of Central Florida and as an Eminent Scholar in Residence at Texas A&M University. He has been active in teaching, research and practice in transportation systems planning and engineering for over five decades. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Sinha received his bachelor’s degree from Jadavpur University in India in 1961, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Connecticut in 1966 and 1968, respectively.^[3] He was a faculty member at Marquette University for six years before joining the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue in 1974. Sinha served as Head of the Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Area in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue from 1981 to 2001 and Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program of Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation from 1995 to 2010. He was a visiting professor of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India. He has been an Honorary or a Guest Professor at five universities in China.