Alumni in Academia

Vikash Gayah

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

Dissertation: The Aggregate Effect of Turns on Urban Traffic Networks

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2012 M.S. Civil Engineering University of Central Florida, 2006 B.S. Civil Engineering University of Central Florida, 2005

Nikolas Geroliminis

Professor
Alumni
École Polytechnique fédérale de Lussuane
Urban Transport Systems Laboratory

École Polytechnique fédérale de Lussuane

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

Dissertation: Increasing Mobility in Cities by Controlling Overcrowding

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2007 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2004 B.S. Civil Engineering National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2003

Jonathan Gifford

Professor, Director
Alumni
Schar School of Policy and Government
Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy
George Mason University

George Mason University

Advisor: William Garrison

Dissertation: An Analysis of the Federal Role in the Planning, Design, and Deployment of Rural Roads, Toll Roads, and Urban Freeways

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1983 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering Univerisity of California, Berkeley, 1979 B.S. Civil Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, 1976

Aaron Golub

Associate Professor, Director
Alumni
Urban Studies and Planning
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning
Portland State University

Portland State University

Advisor: Martin Wachs

Dissertation: Welfare Analysis of Informal Transit Services in Brazil and the Effects of Regulation

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2003 M.S. Mechanical Engineering Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 1996 B.S. Mechanical Engineering Virginia Polytechnic University, 1994

Gabriel Gomes

Lecturer and Assistant Research Engineer
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Alumni

Dr. Gomes is a lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department Mechanical Engineering and an project advisor in the Fung Institute in the Masters of ngineering program. He is also a control systems engineer with expertise in the areas of traffic modeling, simulation, and control. He earned his doctorate degree in controls at U.C. Berkeley in 2004. He then joined the California Center for Innovated Transportation (CCIT) where he participated in several projects spanning a variety of traffic related topics. Dr. Gomes joined PATH as an Assistant Research Engineer in 2008.

Eric Gonzales

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

Dissertation: Allocation of Space and the Costs of Multimodal Transport in Cities

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2011 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2007 B.C. Civil Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, 2006

Anne Goodchild

Professor, Academic Director
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Supply Chain Transportation and Logistic Master's Program
University of Washington

University of Washington

Advisor: Carlos Danganzo

Dissertation: Crane Double-Cycling in Container Ports: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Planning

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2005 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2002 B.S. Mathematics University of California, Davis

Julia Griswold

Director
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Alumni
Lead Researcher

Julia is the Director at SafeTREC and serves as technical lead on projects related to bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Her research expertise and interests include collection and processing of nonmotorized transportation data, bicyclist and pedestrian and exposure modeling, improving access to safety data, and bicyclist level of service measures.

Julia developed her first pedestrian exposure model for her master's thesis in Geography at San Francisco State in 2006. She began working at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher in 2009, continued as a...

Weihua Gu

Associate Professor
Alumni
Electrical Engineering
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Advisor: Michael Cassidy

Dissertation: Models of Bus Queuing at Isolated Bus Stops

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2012 M.A. Economics University of California, Berkeley, 2011 (Concurrent) M.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, 2010 (Concurrent) M.Eng. Civil Engineering Tsinghua University, 2005 B.Eng. Civil Engineering Tsinghua University, 2002

Erick Guerra

Assistant Professor
Alumni
City and Regional Planning
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Robert Cervero

Dissertation: The New Suburbs: Evolving Traffic Behavior, the Built Environment, and Subway Investments in Mexico City

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2013 M.S. Urban Planning Harvard University, 2007 B.A. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Pennsylvania, 2001