Faculty/Lead Researcher

Maria Laura Delle Monache

Assistant Professor
Faculty
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Delle Monache's research lies at the intersection of engineering and mathematics. It is aimed at designing more sustainable communities using new models and control strategies that leverage the latest technologies to improve the energy footprint and resilience of transportation systems. Dr. Delle Monache most recently was a research scientist in the team NeCS (Networked Controlled Systems) at Inria and in the...

Francois Dion

Senior Development Engineer
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Lead Researcher

Dr. Francois Dion is a Senior Development Engineer with 16 years of professional work experience in transportation and traffic engineering. Throughout his career, Dr. Dion has successfully conducted practice-oriented research for Caltrans, the Michigan DOT, the Virginia DOT, and other public transportation agencies, in addition to conducting fundamental research. Since joining PATH, Dr. Dion has been actively involved on projects seeking to improve the operation of multi-modal urban travel corridors. He worked in the development of a pilot Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) system for a...

Ethan Elkind

Director, Climate Program, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
Berkeley Law
Lead Researcher

Ethan Elkind is the Director of the Climate Program at CLEE and leads the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative on behalf of the UC Berkeley and UCLA Schools of Law. He taught at the UCLA law school’s Frank Wells Environmental Law Clinic and served as an environmental law research fellow. He has a background in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), climate change law, environmental justice, and other environmental law topics. In 2005, he co-founded The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc., a Native American nonprofit organization that provides alternative dispute...

James Fishelson

California PATH Director
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology Director
Lead Researcher

Dr. James Fishelson is the California PATH Executive Director. Prior to CA PATH, Fishelson worked at Ford as the Mobility Research Manager, where he led a team of researchers and scientists with backgrounds in transportation engineering, data science, urban planning, optimization, and more, focusing on modeling the impacts of new mobility solutions from nano to macroscopic scales across different cities: connected vehicles, driver assist technologies, micromobility, first-mile last-mile shuttles, automated taxis, and more.

While at Ford, Fishelson worked with several different...

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...

Qijian Gan

Computational Data Science Research Specialist
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Lead Researcher

Dr. Qijian Gan is a Computational Data Science Research Specialist for the California PATH program at UC Berkeley. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2009 and earned both his master’s degree and Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 2010 and 2014.

In 2016, Dr. Gan began working at PATH as a postdoctoral researcher which later developed into a position as a R&D Engineer. This began a years-long partnership with UC Berkeley Professor Alexandre Bayen, and...

Cécile Gaubert

Associate Professor
Berkeley Economics
Faculty
Cécile Gaubert is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER and a Research Affiliate in the International Trade / Regional Economics programme at CEPR. Gaubert's research interests include international trade and economic geography. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Associate Professor
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Faculty

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research area is development, focused on basic infrastructure in developing countries. His ongoing work examines the effect of sustainable rural clean water access in Brazil on children's health and adults' labor decisions.

Marta Gonzalez

Associate Professor
City and Regional Planning
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Faculty

Marta C. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Physics Research faculty in the Energy Technology Area (ETA) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

With the support of several companies, cities and foundations, her research team develops computer models to analyze digital traces of information mediated by devices. They process this information to manage the demand in urban infrastructures in relation to energy and mobility. Her recent research uses billions of mobile phone records to...

Julia Griswold

Director
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Alumni
Lead Researcher

Julia is the Director at SafeTREC and serves as technical lead on projects related to bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Her research expertise and interests include collection and processing of nonmotorized transportation data, bicyclist and pedestrian and exposure modeling, improving access to safety data, and bicyclist level of service measures.

Julia developed her first pedestrian exposure model for her master's thesis in Geography at San Francisco State in 2006. She began working at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher in 2009, continued as a...