Alumni in Academia

Seymour Adler

Professor, Associate Dean
Alumni
Urban Studies and Planning
College of Urban and Public Affairs
Portland State University

Portland State University

Advisor: Melvin M. Webber

Dissertation: Political Economy of Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 1963

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 1980 M.C.P. City Planning Harvard University, 1973 B.A. Urban Studies University of Pennsylvania, 1971

Asha Weinstein Agrawal

Professor, Director
Alumni
Urban and Regional Planning
MTI National Transportation Finance Center
San Jose State University

San Jose State University

Advisor: Elizabeth Deakin

Dissertation: The Congestion of Evil: Perceptions of Traffic Congestions in Boston in the 1890s and 1920s

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2002 M.S. Urban and Regional Planning London School of Economics, 1994 B.A. Folklore and Mythology Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1993

Soyoung Ahn

Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Advisor: Michael Cassidy

Dissertation: Formation of Spatial Evolution of Traffic Oscillations

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2005 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2001 B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering Ohio State University, 2000

Haitham Al-Deek

Professor
Alumni
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering
University of Central Florida

University of Central Florida

Advisor: Adib Kanafani

Dissertation: The Role of Advanced Traveler Information Systems in Incident Mangement

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1991 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1987 B.S. Civil Engineering Kuwait University, 1985

Suarabh Amin

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Alexandre Bayen & S. Shankar Sastry

Dissertation: On Cyber Security for Networked Control Systems

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2011 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Texas at Austin, 2009 B.Tech. Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke, 2005

Zahra Amini

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Sharif University of Technology
Alumni
Education

Dissertation: Data-Driven Approaches for Robust Signal Plans in Urban Transportation Networks

Advisor: Alexander Skabardonis

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. (August 2015 – May 2018)
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. (August 2014 – May 2015)
M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering....

Bruce Appleyard

Associate Professor
Alumni
City Planning and Urban Design
San Diego State University

San Diego State University

Advisor: Robert Cervero

Dissertation: New Methods to Measure Urban Environments for Consumer Behavior Research: Individual Access Corridor Analysis of Environmentally Sustainable and Healthy Travel to Rapid Transit

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2010 M.C.P. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 1997 B.A. Geography University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in CEE
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Smart Infrastructure Center

Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept, University of California at Berkeley, 2008

MSc., Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept, University of California at Berkeley, 2004

Ptychion, Civil Engineering Dept (5-year mandatory program), University of Patras, Greece, 2003

Jesus M. Barajas

Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California Davis
Alumni

Jesus M. Barajas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. Broadly speaking, his research focuses on transportation equity, focusing on three main questions: Why and how do people travel? What accounts for the differences we see in travel behavior and safety, particularly for...

Tracy Becker

Vice Chair for Research & Technical Support Ed & Diane Wilson Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Smart Infrastructure Center

Ph.D. - Civil and Environmental Engineering (SEMM) - University of California, Berkeley, 2011

M.S. - Civil and Environmental Engineering (SEMM), University of California, Berkeley, 2007

B.S. - Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2006