Dr. Ruimin Ke embarked on his journey at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an Assistant Professor in August 2023. He was a faculty member at the University of Texas at El Paso from 2021 to 2023. Dr. Ke possesses profound expertise in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), with a specialization in developing machine learning algorithms and edge/cloud/quantum computing systems tailored for ITS applications. Dr. Ke's academic background includes a Ph.D. and M.S. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Washington, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a B.E. in Automation from Tsinghua University. His scholarly contributions to the field comprise over seventy peer-reviewed papers, a published book, and a few patents. He has led research projects funded by NSF, IBM, USDOT, TRB, NVIDIA, among others. Dr. Ke is a BOD member of the Chinese Overseas Transportation Association, and on the editorial board of four journals: Nature-Scientific Reports, Transportation Research Record, Data Science for Transportation, and Journal of Air Transport Management. He received multiple academic awards in recognition of his research and teaching, such as the CUTC New Faculty Award, TRB Best Paper Award, IEEE DTPI Outstanding Paper Award, ASCE ExCEEd Fellowship, and COTA Best Dissertation Award. He was the chair of the TRB Edge Computing Subcommittee and now a member of the TRB standing committee on Computational Methods and Analytics (AED12). He is also a member of the ASCE T&DI Infrastructure Systems Committee and Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Committee.