Alumni in Academia

Vukan Vuchic

Professor Emeritus
Alumni
Transportation Systems Engineering
City and Regional Planning
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Dessertation: Interstation Spacings for Line-Hual Passenger Transportation

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1966 M.Eng. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1965 Dipl.Ing. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Belgrade, 1960

Stephen Wheeler

Professor
Alumni
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

Advisor: Elizabeth Deakin

Dissertation: Designing the Liveable Metropolis: Metropolitan Institutions and the Evolutions of Urban Form

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2000 M.C.P. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 1995 B.A. Psychology Dartmouth University, 1979

Jan Whittington

Associate Professor
Alumni
Urban Design and Planning
University of Washington

University of Washington

Advisor: David Dowell

Dissertation: The Transaction Cost Economics of Highway Project Delivery: Design-Build Contracting in Three States

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2008 M.C.R.P. City and Regional Planning California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, 1990 B.A. Biology, Environmental Studies University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987

João Alaxandre Widmer

Associate Professor
Alumni
Transportation Engineering
University of São Paulo

University of São Paulo

Advisor: Alexandre Bayen

Dissertation: Effect of Alternative Operation Policies on Check-In counter design

Ph.D. Transportation Engineering University of São Paulo (Brazil), 1984 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1977 B.S. Aeronautical Engineering Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronática (Brazil), 1972

S. Chan Wirasinghe

Professor
Alumni
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary

University of Calgary

Advisor: Gordon Newell

Dissertation: A Model of a Coordinated Rail and Bus Transit Systems

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1976 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1973 B.S. Civil Engineering University of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), 1968

Stephen Wong

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
Alumni

Dr. Stephen Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental at the University of Alberta, joining in October 2021. Stephen’s research focuses on the intersection of evacuations, decision-making, and shared mobility and works to create more resilient, environmentally friendly, and equitable transportation systems. His dissertation research developed empirically driven and equitable evacuation and resilience strategies for governmental agencies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Stephen leads the Resilient and Sustainable Mobility and...

Soomin Woo

Assistant Professor
Alumni

Soomin Woo is an assistant professor in Smart Vehicle Enineering at Konkuk University in Korea. Her research focuses on modeling and optimization of the integrated systems of mobility and energy, which fully utilize the benefits of vehicle electrificaiton, automation, and commnuication. At TSRC, she conducts research on vehicle grid integration, energy grid optimization, and electric vehicle data science. She has a B.S. and a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental...

Daniel B. Work

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Advisor: Alexandre Bayen

Dissertation: Real-time Estimation of Distributed Parameters Systems: Applications to Trtaffic Monitoring

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering Unversity of California, Berkeley, 2010 M.S. Civil and Environmental Enigneering University of California, Berkeley, 2007 B.S. Civil Engineering Ohio State University, 2006

Cathy Wu

Assistant Professor
Alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cathy Wu is the Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cathy Wu works at the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and large-scale urban systems and other societal systems. Her recent research focuses on mixed autonomy systems in mobility, which studies the complex integration of automation such as self-driving cars into existing urban systems. She is broadly interested in developing principled computational tools to enable reliable and complex decision-making for critical...

Hwasoo Yeo

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Advisor: Alex Skabardonis

Dissertation: Assymetric Microscopic Driving Behavior Theory

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2008 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2004 B.S. Civil Engineering Seoul National University, 1996