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Brathwaite Earns First Place 2018 Eric Pas Dissertation Award

June 26, 2020

Timothy Brathwaite With AwardCongratulations to recent Civil and Environmental Engineering alum Timothy Brathwaite on earning the first place Eric Pas Dissertation Award from the International Association for Travel Behavior for his dissertation The Holy Trinity: Blending Statistics, Machine...

UCCONNECT 2016-17 Student of the Year: Timothy Brathwaite

June 2, 2017

Timothy BrathwaiteTimothy Brathwaite is a data scientist at Lyft. He obtained his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of California (UC) at Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Joan Walker. Motivated by efforts to predict the demand for bicycling under various policy scenarios, Timothy’s dissertation made methodological improvements to discrete choice models to...

TSRC's Broader, Cohen Earn Spot Awards

June 12, 2020

Congratulations to Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) survey researchers Jacquelyn Broader and Adam Cohen on earning spot Staff Appreciation and Recognition Awards!

Jacquelyn BroaderJacquelyn Broader, a Survey Researcher II, earned her Spot Award in recognition of her outstanding efforts in advancing transportation research on shared mobility,...

Olivares Earns Team Achievement Award

June 2, 2020

Fredda OlivaresCongratulations to TechTransfer Conference and Events Manager Fredda Olivares, along with fellow team leaders of the the 2020 Chicanx/Latinx Leadership Summit — Lupe Gallegos-Diaz, Paola Alonso, and Ralph Serrano, who earned a Team Achievement Award.

This...

CED Welcomes Joe Krovoza as Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations

June 4, 2020

Joe KrovozaThis article originally appeared at the College of Environmental Design website:

The College of Environmental Design (CED) is pleased to announce that Joe Krovoza will be joining us as Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni...

Nelson Earns Achievement Award

June 2, 2020

Melissa NelsonCongratulations to California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) Administrative Assistant Melissa Nelson for who earned an Achievement Award for sustained, exceptional performance.

California PATH conducts research in traffic management and the emerging technologies that will transform transportation (vehicle connectivity, artificial intelligence). This work...

Li Earns Achievement Award

June 2, 2020

John LiCongratulations to John Li, ERSO Research Administrator, who earned an Achievement Award for sustained, exceptional performance.

John Li deserves an Achievement Award for his sustained excellence managing the exceptionally complex budget of the Berkeley DeepDrive consortium.

Since the beginning of BDD five years ago, John has effectively and efficiently kept track of all of the...

Infante, Katagiri, Lau-Stewart Earn Spot Awards

June 2, 2020

Congratulations to Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research’s (BAIR) Roxana Infante, Ami Katagiri, and Lena Lau-Stewart for earning Spot Awards that recognize in-the-moment contributions of employees.

Roxana InfanteRoxana Infante earned a Spot award for the excellent support she provided this winter to get the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR...

Congratulations 2020 Graduates from ITS Berkeley

May 19, 2020

Congratulations to the class of 2020!

It has been an unusual year to say the least and you finished strong — for that we commend you. This semester's challenges have shown the true grit of University of California Berkeley’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni. You quickly adapted to remote classes and adjusted to attending classes in different time zones. You kept up with your work and research, and you had your campus experience upended. You took these unexpected circumstances seriously and in stride. You made the best of your education and circumstances. Thank you for diligence...

ITS Berkeley COVID-19 Efforts

May 22, 2020

COVID 19Smart Pandemic Management

Professors Raja Sengupta and Joan Walker

A growing number of epidemiologists are advocating for smarter pandemic management, which would move the frontier of quarantine out into communities with monitoring and proactive testing. Smart pandemic management (SPM) requires a data infrastructure that obtains the right data...