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El Zarwi Receives Eric Pas Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

August 1, 2018

Feras El Zarwi PhD received the Honorable Mention distinction in the prestigious 2017 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize competition sponsored by the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR).

His dissertation is entitled: "Modeling and Forecasting the Impact of Major Technological and Infrastructural Changes on Travel Demand." Feras's faculty adviser is...

Amini Earns Best Student Paper Award IEEE

September 11, 2018

Congratulations to recent graduate Zahra Amini (May 2018) who received the best student paper award at the recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Conference on Control Technology and Applications Conference In Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2018.

The paper, titled "Optimizing Offsets in Signalized Traffic Networks: A Case Study," is co...

Top 40 Under Forty Women: Kagure Wamunyu

September 24, 2018

Congratulations to alumna Kagure Wamunyu, a former Mastercard Foundation Scholar, who has been named one of Kenya's Top 40 Under 40 Women. She earned her master's in city and regional planning at Berkeley in 2015, and is now working on an urban development PhD at the University of Oxford. She currently works as senior director of strategy for Bridge International...

Chapple Earns ACSP John Friedmann Book Award

November 14, 2018
A Closer Look with Karen Chapple, PhD John Friedmann Book Award Winner

https://www.acsp.org/page/Chapple2018

The ACSP John Friedmann Book Award is presented...

Kaminsky Named Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation

February 6, 2019

Congratulations to ITS affiliate and Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Professor Phil Kaminsky, who has been named to the Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation, an endowed chair that has been designated an administrative chair for Berkeley Engineering to be used in support of its key priorities and curricular innovations, as...

Moura Receives NSF Career Award

March 5, 2019

Professor Scott Moura received a prestigious NSF Career Award for the project, Estimation and Control of Electrochemical-Thermal Battery Models: Theory and Experiments.

The project will benefit national interests by advancing knowledge on battery...

Halpern, Lazarus, Lucken Selected as Eno Fellows

March 19, 2019

Congratulations to doctoral students Jessica Lazarus and Emma Lucken and Transportation dual masters degree student Jeremy Halpern for being selected by the Board of Regents of the Eno Center for Transportation to participate in the 27th annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference in Washington, DC, June 2 – 6. They are amongst 20 of the nation’s top...

Tomlin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 1, 2019
Claire Tomlin elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dai Receives Robert P. Wadell Endowed Fellowship for Civil Engineering Innovation

May 3, 2019

Congratulations to Transportation Engineering doctoral student Lu Dai, who is this year's recipient of the Robert P. Wadell Endowed Fellowship for Civil Engineering Innovation.

“Receiving this fellowship from an alumnus and a respected engineer...

4 Students, 1 alum earn WTS Honors

April 18, 2019

WTS SFCongratulations to the four UC Berkeley students who earned scholarships from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of WTS. This year over $60,000 in scholarship grants were awarded to two graduate, undergraduate and high school students honoring their strong academic skills and interests in developing knowledge and skills...