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...
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....
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...
