Adrian Cottam is a PhD Candidate in transportation engineering and data science at the University of Arizona (UA) and the IT Manager for UA's Center for Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS). He earned his master's in transportation engineering from UA in 2019, and during that time he worked as a graduate research assistant in the Smart Transportation Lab with NITC researcher Yao-Jan Wu. Adrian also served as an officer in the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) University of Arizona student chapter. Cottam is an Eisenhower fellow as well as a GAANN fellow, and expects to complete his PhD program in 2023.