ITS Senior Fellows

Ratna Amin

ITS Senior Fellow Alumna Ratna Amin gives a presentation at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar.

ITS Berkeley is excited to welcome Arielle Fleisher, Policy Development and Research Manager at Waymo(link is external)Dr. Brien Seeley, pioneering leader of aviation technology, and Dr. Ann Xu, co-founder and CEO of ElectroTempo, Inc(link is external), to the ranks of our ITS Senior Fellows.

They join Chai K Toh Tech and Product Executive, Randy Iwasaki, President and CEO of Iwasaki Consulting Services, Inc.; Bill Quirk, former California State Assembly Member, Dr. Banavar Sridhar, Principal Engineer at Universities Space Research Association(link is external) (USRA), Moffett Field, CA; Shari Tavaf, PE, President / CEO of STRADA EC, LLC(link is external) (alumna); Egon Terplan, Robert S. Cornish Endowed Chair of Regional Planning and Lecturer in City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley(link is external)and Jeff Morales, Managing Principal at  InfraStrategies(link is external), who will continue as ITS Senior Fellows.

The ITS Senior Fellow program recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary contributions, have excelled in the transportation field,  and have a desire to improve transportation education, research, and practice through collaboration with ITS faculty, staff, and students. 

We are grateful for our previous Senior Fellows Ratna Amin(link is external)Mark DowdSteve Heminger(link is external) and Taj Tashombe(link is external), and Johanna Zmud who incorporated their expertise and insights into the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminars, worked with students and faculty in transportation-related classes, projects and activities and been integral in ITS Berkeley research, grants and proposals.

We look forward to fostering new and continuing  relationships to change the future of mobilty.