Faculty/Lead Researcher

Dr. Hao Liu is an Assistant Research Engineer with PATH. He is passionate about extending the traffic flow modeling capability by incorporating latest technology advancements in CAV control, communication, and machine learning. With the modeling tools, he wanted to find out the best traffic operation and management strategies that maximize the benefit of the CAV technologies. He wishes to promote the CAV development, evaluation and deployment by helping researchers over the world implement the PATH simulation models in their tailored CAV studies. Dr. Liu received B.S. in Transportation...

Jane Macfarlane, PhD holds a joint appointment at the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she is the Director of the Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility Center.

Dr. Macfarlane has over 30 years of experience in high performance computing, data analytics and geospatial mapping. Macfarlane has been responsible for directing industry research groups including: Head of Research for HERE – a leader in geospatial mapping, Vice President of Process Engineering at Imara – a lithium ion battery company, and Director of Advanced...

Dr. Huadong (Joshua) Meng is an Assistant Research Engineer with the California PATH program at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.S. in Engineering and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. In 2004, he joined the faculty of Tsinghua University, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering until 2015. Additionally, Dr. Meng was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of the IET International Radar Conference in 2013 and 2015.

In 2015, he...

Lisa is the Communications and Outreach Lead for SafeTREC and manages center communications for outreach, social media, and two traffic safety related websites. Prior to SafeTREC, Lisa worked at the Center for Public Health Practice and Leadership at Berkeley Public Health, where she lead center communications, was co- instructor for courses on health communications and professional development, and coordinated a new media training series. She has also conducted community based public health research, produced videos, led trainings, and coordinated health communication...