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Congratulations to the ITS Students of the Year! We had a really good group of nominees this year and are thrilled to announce Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate Ziad Yassine will receive the PhD Student of the Year Award and dual degree Master in City and Regional Planning and Master of Science students Jacob Champlin and Ameen DaCosta will receive the Master Student of the Year Co-Award.

PhD Student of the Year

Ziad Yassine

Ziad advances equity, sustainability, and policy through impactful transportation research

TRANSOC organized a lively mixer on Apri 24, 2025 that brought alumni, trnasportation students and faculty, and area professionals together!

TechTransfer 

Name: Jay Johnson

What’s your hometown? Upland, CA

What is your role at ITS, describe your job in four words, and how long have you been here?

I have been here eight and a half years. My role at ITS in 4 or less words could be summed up as TechTransfer’s magister factotum.

Thank you to Jiaqi Ma, Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies who presented CDA.AI: Forging a Multi-Agent Future for Intelligent Mobility at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 18, 2025. 

Thank you to Shoshana Vasserman, Assistant Professor, Economics, Center Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Graduate School of Business, who presented Can Usage-Based Pricing Reduce Congestion: Evidence from a Field Experiment at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 11, 2025.

Thank you to Chiwei Yan, UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Assistant Professor, who presented Scaling Up Shared Rides: Pricing and Matching Policies at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 4, 2025.