Patricia Hu

Ms. Patricia S. Hu is the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Ms. Hu has extensive statistical experience, deep knowledge of transportation, and a strong background in research. Ms. Hu joined DOT in 2011 after working for 29 years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she served as the director of the Center for Transportation Analysis from 2001-2009. She has developed and led programs that focus on transportation survey methods and data quality, transportation analysis and model development, and visualization-based transportation decision making tools. Much of her work has been published in many of the leading transportation and applied statistics journals and has been presented at numerous conferences. Ms. Hu has also been an active member and leader on numerous Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees, expert panels, and advisory boards that cover transportation analysis, transportation safety, and transportation information systems and data. Director Hu was recently invited to chair TRB’s TRR Review Advisory Board. She has also been active at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s International Transport Forum by chairing the annual Transportation Statistics meeting and a multi-year research project on "Big Data and Open Data.” She received her M.S. in statistics from the University of Guelph, Canada.