Mark Hansen is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Philosophy in 1980, and has a PhD in Engineering Science and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Hansen worked as a physicist at the Environmental Protection Agency. Since joining the Berkeley faculty in 1988, he has led transportation research projects in urban transportation planning, air transport systems modeling, air traffic flow management, aviation systems...
Alex Estes graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013 with a B.S. in Mathematics and from the University of Maryland in 2018 with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Scientific Computation under the supervision of Michael Ball. In his dissertation work, Alex studied optimization and data science methods to support Federal Aviation Administration decisions regarding air traffic management initiatives, which are actions that are taken to prevent excess congestion in the national airspace.
After graduation, Alex joined the Institute for Mathematics and...
Dr. David Lovell is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research. He is Director of the Gemstone Honors program. He is an affiliate professor with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program, and the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security. Dr. Lovell was faculty advisor for the Engineers Without Borders student chapter. He received the EWB-USA Peter J. Bosscher Faculty Adviser Award and the...
Max is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also has courtesy appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Industrial and Operations Engineering. Max received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021. He earned his MSE in Systems Engineering and BSE in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, both from the University of Pennsylvania, in 2018. Max’s research and teaching interests include air transportation systems, airport and airline operations, Advanced Air...
Professor Megan S. Ryerson is the UPS Foundation Chair of Transportation and Professor of City and Regional Planning and Electrical & Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Ryerson’s research emphasis is in the area of transportation engineering and planning, with a focus on intercity transportation planning and urban transportation safety. Dr. Ryerson has led research initiatives and published extensively in the area of air transportation, including environmental impacts, economic development, and multimodal planning....
Raja Sengupta is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Sengupta’s research focuses on automated cars, drones, connected cars, smartphone apps for economics & transportation, wireless networking, and control theory. He likes to do research on the industry and get it into the marketplace, and he holds car-to-road networking patents with Toyota, a UAV patent with BAE Aerospace, and car-to-car networking contributions standardized by the SAE into J2945. Sengupta has been an advisor to the World Bank, is a recipient of the USDOT’s Connected...
Co-Investigator/Institutional Principal investigator
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Morgan State University
Dr. Owolabi, P.E., joined the Morgan State University (MSU) faculty in the summer of 2010. He is the Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Smart Innovation and Resilient Engineering Research Laboratory as well as the Director of the Undergraduate Geotechnical Laboratory at the department of Civil Engineering. In 2020, he was the interim Associate Chair of the department of Civil Engineering. He has about 30 years of outstanding experience in practicing, teaching, and research in civil and transportation engineering. Dr. Owolabi earned his doctorate in civil and...
Dr. Blessing Ojeme is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. He is passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and offering practical solutions that address real-world challenges. With an impressive career spanning over a decade in the field of computer science, Dr. Ojeme has displayed profound proficiency in teaching, research, and community engagement. Before joining Morgan State University, Dr. Ojeme worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at...
Co-Investigator/Institutional Principal investigator
Assistant Professor
Elizabeth City State University
Henderson Bell PhD began her assignment as Assistant Professor of Emergency Management in 2022 at Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, NC. Currently on campus, Bell is an Assistant Director of Undergraduate Senior Research. She is also on the Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee and the Academic Standards and Credits Committee. She has 15 years of experience from the North Carolina State Emergency Management Division where she was Deputy Recovery Chief during her last four years with the Division. In this position, she collaborated with FEMA on...
Associate Professor and Chair of Aviation and Emergency Management
Elizabeth City State University
Kevin Kupietz Ph.D. /MSOS /FF/EMTP is the chair of the Department of Aviation and Emergency Management and Associate Professor of Emergency Management at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina USA. He is a NC certified Firefighter/Paramedic with over thirty years of emergency response/management experience with local, state, and federal agencies. He comes with a diverse emergency response, research, and educational background. . He is a big believer in the power of education to make communities safer through cooperative ventures. He is known for his passion in...
