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Emmanouil Manos Barmpounakis

Il - He/him

manos.barmpounakis@epfl.ch

Nationality: Greek

EPFL ENAC IIC LUTS
GC C2 390 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

  • Traffic Monitoring
  • Traffic Operations
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Data Science

Current work

pNEUMA: On the New Era of Urban traffic Models with massive empirical data from Aerial footage

pNEUMA intends to revolutionize how emerging technologies reshape our understanding of traffic congestion mechanisms, by putting the emphasis on urban networks with disturbances generated by interactions among different types of vehicles. The project targets to better explain the mechanism of congestion formation and propagation in congested multimodal urban environments through massive data from aerial footage and fundamental research prospective.
I am a Lecturer and Senior Scientist at the Urban Transport Systems Laboratory (LUTS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). I obtained a PhD in Transportation Engineering (2017) and a Diploma in Civil Engineering (2012) from the National Technical University of Athens.

My research interests lie at the intersection of urban mobility, traffic operations, data science, AI, and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). I develop data-driven methodologies to better understand, monitor, and optimize transportation systems, with a focus on sustainable, efficient, and resilient cities.

My work combines scientific research with real-world deployment through collaborations with public authorities, industry partners, and international projects.

Education

Ph.D.

| Traffic Operations

2013 – 2017 National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Directed by Dr. Ioannis Golias, Professor and Rector of NTUA, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA

Integrated Master

| Civil & Transportation Engineering

2006 – 2012 National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Directed by Diploma Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Eleni Vlahogianni, Assistant Professor

Awards

2020 Greenshields Prize

From ACP50 Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics. Named in honor of Dr. Bruce D. Greenshields, a pioneer in Traffic Flow Theory.

2020

Selected publications

On the new era of urban traffic monitoring with massive drone data: The pNEUMA large-scale field experiment

E. Barmpounakis and N. Geroliminis
Published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies in

Lane Detection and lane-changing identification with high-resolution data from a swarm of drones (2020 Greenshields Prize)

E. Barmpounakis, G.M. Sauvin and N. Geroliminis
Published in Transportation Research Record in

Unmanned Aerial Aircraft Systems for transportation engineering: Current practice and future challenges

E. Barmpounakis, E. Vlahogianni and J. Golias
Published in International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology in