Sen, Ashish

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Dr. Ashish Sen is married to Dr. Colleen Taylor Sen. They live at 2557 W. Farwell Avenue.

Bio Info

President, Indo American Democratic Organization (IADO), January 2013 – Present (1 year 6 months)

Member, Chicago Transit Board, 2012 – Present (2 years) Greater Chicago Area President of Board

South-East Asia Center, March 2007 – Present (7 years 4 months)

Professor Emeritus UIC, August 1999 – Present (14 years 11 months)

Owner, TransInfo 2004 – March 2012 (8 years)

Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, US Dept. of Transportation, November 1998 – November 2002 (4 years 1 month) Washington, DC

Director, BTS, US Department of Transportation, 1998 – 2002 (4 years)

Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1998 – 2002 (4 years)

Director, Urban Transportation Center at UIC, 1995 – 1998 (3 years)

Director, University of Illinois Chicago - Urban Transportation Center, 1995 – 1998 (3 years)

Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1978 – 1998 (20 years)

Dr. Ashish Sen, working with the encouragement of Milton Pikarsky, the chairman of Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) wrote the proposal to establish the The Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Director of Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation

Director of the Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago

Professor of Urban Planning, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Board Member, IADO, Indo American Democratic Organization

Board Member, Chicago Transit Authority

Board Member, Chicago Board of Education

Member, Chicago Board of Education

Board Member, Indian Cultural Arts Organization

Board Member, The CTA

Board Member, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago

Education:

B.S. mathematics, Calcutta University

PhD statistics, University of Toronto

President Clinton Names Ashish Sen to Serve as Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at the Department of Transportation

For Immediate Release Tuesday, September 29, 1998

The President today announced his intent to nominate Dr. Ashish Sen to serve as Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at the Department of Transportation.

Dr. Ashish Sen, of Chicago, Illinois, has served as Director of the Statistics and Evaluation Laboratory at the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago since 1996 and in 1997 he was also named the Director of the Urban Transportation Center. From 1978 until the present he has been a Professor of Urban Planning and since 1995 he has also served as a Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1969 to 1978, he served in various capacities within the College of Urban Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle including Associate Professor, Acting Dean, and Director of the School of Urban Sciences. He has authored numerous articles and co-authored two books relating to statistics and transportation.

Dr. Sen received his school certificate from St. Xavier's College in Calcutta, India, his B.Sc. in Mathematics with honors from Calcutta University, his M.A. in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Toronto.

The Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at the U.S. Department of Transportation is responsible for directing data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation monitoring resources. Specific duties include publishing a comprehensive set of transportation statistics to provide timely summaries as well as working in cooperation with modal administrators and State and Federal officials to establish and implement long-term programs for the collection of transportation data relating to the performance of the national transportation system. The Director also issues guidelines for the collection of information by the Department of Transportation to ensure its reliability and accuracy and coordinates the data collection within the various participating Federal departments and agencies.

Photos

RPWRHS photo S013-0440 shows the home of Ashish and Colleen Taylor Sen at 2557 W. Farwell Avenue taken in 1988.

RPWRHS photo S013-0655 shows the bungalow owned by Ashish and Colleen Taylor Sen at 2557 W. Farwell Avenue in June 1984.

RPWRHS photo S013-0719 shows the bungalow owned by Ashish and Colleen Taylor Sen at 2557 W. Farwell Avenue in June 1984.