Matt Nice is a PhD student in Civil Engineering and the Insitute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. He earned his M.Eng in Cyber-Physical Systems at Vanderbilt University. He earned his B.S.E. at Tulane University. His research interests are broadly in transportation cyber-physical systems. That includes autonomous vehicles, sensor networks, and human-in-the-loop systems. He is focused on empirical successes from research ideas.