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Wu Earns IEEE ITS Best Dissertation Award

October 28, 2019
Congratulations to recent alumnus Cathy Wu (’18) on receiving the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Best Dissertation Award

ITS Berkeley Celebrates Achievements, Awards

December 17, 2019

2019 Holiday Party

ITS Berkeley hosted their annual holiday lunch and awards program Dec. 13, 2019 to celebrate staff, faculty, research and all the accomplishments the Institute and its Centers have achieved in the last year. Check out our photos on Facebook. This year’s awards go to...

SafeTREC's Vayalamkuzhi Earns 2019 Postdoc Achievement Award

December 2, 2019
Congratulations to SafeTREC's Praveen Vayalamkuzhi, who was recently honored as the co-recipient of the Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs Program (VSPA) 2019 Postdoc Achievement Award.

ITS/CED Students Honored for Self-eSTEM Work

November 20, 2019

Self estem award presentationThe College of Environmental Design, ITS Berkeley, Low Income/first Generation Students (LIFGen), College of Environmental Design Students of Color (CEDSOC) and planning professor/UCTC Director Karen Trapenberg Frick have all earned the Self-eSTEM STEM Partner Award for their continued work...

Meet the new Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society

February 18, 2020

Jennifer ChayesThe Berkeley data science division, which was launched in July 2019, has just announced its new name: the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society. The name reflects the division's broad, cross-disciplinary approach to education, and encompasses the School of Information, BIDS, the Data Science Education Program, and the Data Science Commons, as well as...

ITS Berkeley Earns Accolades at TRB 2020

January 23, 2020

TRB 2020 ITS Reception

Tamara Kerznher talks about her poster to Professor Alex SkabardonisThe Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley was well...

Shaheen Named Key Influencer

December 12, 2019

Congratulations to Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen on being named one of 13 influential people in mobility at Tapkey.

Change is taking place through business, tech and mobility, and there are so many things going on and so many factors affecting mobility. To stay up to...

ITS Berkeley Welcomes French Ambassador

January 16, 2020

Bayen and EtienneITS Berkeley had the pleasure of hosting His Excellency Philippe Étienne Ambassador of France in the US on Jan. 14, 2020 for an ITS Distinguished Seminar, where he presented Tech for Good: A French vision for the 4th Industrial Revolution to over 200 students, faculty (including over five National Academy members) and guests from the public in UC Berkeley’s Sibley Auditorium,...

Alumna Laura Schewel Talks Transportation Analytics in ITS International

March 5, 2019

The January/February 2019 edition of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) International features an interview with UC Berkeley Energy Resources Group (ERG) alumna Laura Schewel (MS ’11). Schewel is the CEO of Streetlight Data, a transportation analytics company she founded while at ERG. Streetlight Data uses anonymous cellular and GPS...

Claire Tomlin elected to the NAE

February 19, 2019

Claire Tomlin, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science is amongst 86 newly elected members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.

The new members and 18 new foreign members were announced last week in Washington, D.C.

Tomlin, who obtained her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1998 under adviser Shaankar Sastry, was cited for...