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Laura Muñoz
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Visiting Instructor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Address: 102 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

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(607) 254-7402
LM288@cornell.edu

My interests include applied control theory, transportation engineering, and biological systems control. My primary research area is the mathematical modeling and estimation of freeway traffic flows.



Selected Publications

L. Muñoz, X. Sun, R. Horowitz, and L. Alvarez.
"Picewise-Linearized Cell Transmission Model and Parameter Calibration Methodology," Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 1965, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 183-191.

R. Horowitz, L. Muñoz, and X. Sun.
"Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic," Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems: In Honor of Pravin Varaiya, E.H. Abed (Ed.), Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications Series, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005.

L. Muñoz, X. Sun, R. Horowitz, and L. Alvarez.
"Traffic Density Estimation with the Cell Transmission Model," Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 3750–3755, Denver, Colorado, June 2003.

L. Muñoz, G. Gomes, J. Yi, C. Toy, R. Horowitz, and L. Alvarez,
"Integrated Meso-Microscale Traffic Simulation of Hierarchical AHS Control Architectures," 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 82–7, Oakland, California, August 2001.



Education
Ph.D. 2004 - University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering
B.S. 1997 - California Institute of Technology, Engineering and Applied Science