Katy Salamati

Global Principal Industry Consultant – IoT

SAS

Dr. Katy Salamati is the global head of IoT Solutions for Transportation and Infrastructure at SAS. Katy has over 15 years of experience improving infrastructure and transportation safety and mobility through applying innovative IoT, AI and advanced analytics, working with all modes of transportation from surface to air, rail, maritime and recently space.  Katy leads the application of IoT and AI streaming analytics in transportation industry for SAS’s IoT division and has worked with both public and private sector infrastructure, transportation and supply chain agencies. Katy has a PhD in Civil Transportation engineering and an MBA in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship from North Carolina State University. She also has a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from University of Southern California. 

Previous to joining SAS, Katy worked as a program manager for Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) at North Carolina State University, where she worked on grants from USDOT, NSF and NCHRP projects. Katy has co-authored two NCHRP reports and has several best paper awards with TRB and many publications in TRR. 

Katy is also adjunct faculty of Civil Engineering at NCSU.

Katy Salamati

Global Principal Industry Consultant – IoT

SAS

Dr. Katy Salamati is the global head of IoT Solutions for Transportation and Infrastructure at SAS. Katy has over 15 years of experience improving infrastructure and transportation safety and mobility through applying innovative IoT, AI and advanced analytics, working with all modes of transportation from surface to air, rail, maritime and recently space.  Katy leads the application of IoT and AI streaming analytics in transportation industry for SAS’s IoT division and has worked with both public and private sector infrastructure, transportation and supply chain agencies. Katy has a PhD in Civil Transportation engineering and an MBA in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship from North Carolina State University. She also has a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from University of Southern California. 

Previous to joining SAS, Katy worked as a program manager for Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) at North Carolina State University, where she worked on grants from USDOT, NSF and NCHRP projects. Katy has co-authored two NCHRP reports and has several best paper awards with TRB and many publications in TRR. 

Katy is also adjunct faculty of Civil Engineering at NCSU.