Alumni in Academia

Mikhail Chester

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering
Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Advisor: Arpad Horvath

Dissertation: Life-Cycle Environmental Inventory of Passenger Transportation in the United States

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2008 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2005 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, 2003 B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

Eleni Christofa

Associate Professor
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Advisor: Alexander Skabardonis

Dissertation: Network Traffic Signal Optimization with Transit Priority

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2012 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2008 Dipl. Civil Enginering (5-year program) National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2007

Christian Claudel

Assistant Professor
Alumni
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin

Advisor: Alexandre Bayen

Dissertation: Convex Formulations of Inverse Modeling Problems on Systems Modeled by Hamilton-Jacobi Equations: Applications to Traffic Flow Engineering

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2010 M.S. Electrical Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 2009 B.S. Plasma Physics École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2004

Abigail Cochran

Assistant Professor
Alumni

Dr. Abigail Cochran holds a Master of City Planning and Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Cochran is broadly interested in travel behavior, transportation policy, disability, aging, and health. She is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Benjamin Coifman

Associate Professor
Alumni
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering
Ohio State University

Ohio State University

Advisor: Michael Cassidy

Dissertation: Vehicle Reidentification and Travel Time Measurement Using Loop Detector Speed Traps

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1998 M.Eng. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley, 1998 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1995 B.S. Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota, 1992

Sam Coogan

Assistant Professor
Alumni
Georgia Institute of Technology
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor
Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Tech

Advisors: Murat Arcak, Pravin Varaiya

Dissertation: Synthesis and Verification of Networked Systems with Applications to Transportation Networks...

Jeniffer Dill

Professor, Director
Alumni
Urban Studies and Planning
Transportation Research and Education Center
Portland State University

Portland State University

Advisor: Martin Wachs

Dissertation: Travel Behavior and Older Vehicles: Implications for Air Quality and VOluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Programs

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley, 2001 M.A. Urban Planning University of California, Los Angeles, 1989 B.S. Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning University of California, Davis, 1987

Said Easa

Professor
Alumni
Civil Engineering
Ryerson University

Ryerson University

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

Dissertation: Analysis of Traffic Operations in Harbor Terminals

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley, 1981 M.Eng. Transportation Engineering McMaster University, 1976 B.S. Civil Engineering Cairo University

Alan Erera

UPS Professor of Logistics, Associate Chair for Research
Alumni
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
MS in Supply Chain Engineering
SCL Center for Global Transportation
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

Dissertation: Design of Large-Scale Logistics Systems for Uncertain Environments

Ph.D. Indsutrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, 2000 M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, 1996 B.S.E. Civil Engineering and Operations Research Princeton University, 1992

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Associate Professor
City and Regional Planning
University of California Transportation Center
Faculty
Alumni

Dr. Karen Trapenberg Frick is Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She also is Director of the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC).

Education: UC Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning, Ph.D. UCLA, Urban and Regional Planning, M.A. UCLA, Sociology, B.A.

New Book:

Her book is entitled Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: A Case Study of Shadowboxing with Nature (Routledge, 2016) and is...