Alumni in Academia

Carl Monismith

Professor Emeritus
Alumni
Transportation Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Thesis: On the Deflection Theory of Arches

Professor Monismith has been a faculty member at UC Berkeley for more than 50 years. His work in pavement design and rehabilitation and asphalt paving technology has garnered him worldwide recognition. He has published numerous papers that have won awards from the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, the Transportation Research Board, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.


Professor Monismith has acted as a consultant on pavement research and design for a number of...

Marcel Moran

Faculty Fellow
Alumni

Marcel Moran, PhD is a Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress. He received his PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2023. He studies urban transportation, including bicycle, transit, and pedestrian infrastructure and policy. His research has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle,...

Steven Morrison

Professor Emeritus
Alumni
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Northeastern University

Advisor: Theodore Keeler

Dissertation: Optimal Pricing and INvestment Policies for Airport Landing Areas

Ph.D. Economics University of California, Berkeley, 1979 B.A. Economics University of Florida, 1973

Shashi Nambisan

Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Advisor: Adib Kanafani

Dissertation: Airline Safety Posture: A Study of Aircraft Maintenance Related Indicators

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1987 M.S. Civil Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University B.Tech. Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1984

Andy Nash

Senior Researcher, Lecturer, and Transport planner
St Pölten University of Applied Sciences, ETH Zurich
Andrew Nash is a Vienna-based transport planner with over 35 years experience in consulting, government and academia. Author of nearly 100 publications he is a Senior Researcher at the St Pölten University of Applied Sciences and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. Recent projects focus on the application of information technology in transport and urban planning. In this work he has developed prototype applications...

Gregory L. Newmark

Research Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kansas State University
Alumni

Ph.D. - 2011, UC Berkeley
City and Regional Planning
M.Sc. - 2006, Technion
Urban and Regional Planning
B.A. - 1997, Yale University
History and International Studies

Professional Experience

Gregory Newmark has held the following positions: researcher/planner at Cambridge Systematics, Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection, Perlstein Galit Ltd, Regional Transportation Authority and Center for Neighborhood Technology.

Academic Highlights

He was a recipient of a Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Graduate Fellowship...

Cornelius Nuworsoo

Professor
Alumni
City and Regional Planning
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Advisor: Martin Wachs

Dissertation: Deep Discount Grous Pass Programs as INstruments for Increasing Transit Revenue and Ridership

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2004 M.C.P. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2002 M.S. Transportation Studies Morgan State Univeristy, 1986 B.S. University of Science and Technology, (Ghana), 1981

Yanfeng Ouyang

Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

Dissertation: Same Properties of Decnetralized Supply Chains

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2005 M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, 2005 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington, 2001 B.Eng. Civil Engineering Tsinghua University, 2000

Manuel Santana Palacios

Assistant Professor
City and Regional Planning
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering

Dr. Manuel Santana Palacios is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University with a join appointment in the Knowlton School’s City and Regional Planning Section and the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering. He also holds a Provost Scholar Assistant Professorship.

Dr. Santana Palacios specializes in transportation policy and planning and just urban transitions. His research takes an interdisciplinary perspective to study how investments in transportation infrastructures and policy innovations impact population groups differently by race...

Martin Pietrucha

Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Penn State

Penn State

Advisor: Everett C. Carter

Dissertation: A Method for Testing the Comprehension of Static Traffic Signs

Ph.D. Civil Engineering University of Maryland, 1990 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1978 B.S. Civil Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1977