Faculty/Lead Researcher

Iris D. Tommelein

Distiguished Professor
Faculty
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Iris D. Tommelein is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Project Management in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and she directs the Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tommelein has been studying, developing, and applying principles and methods of project-based production management for the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry, what is termed Lean Construction. Tommelein has led many industry workshops, hosted conferences on Lean Construction, and is actively engaged in consulting work....

Nick Tsivanidis

Assistant Professor
Faculty
Haas School of Business
Berkeley Economics

Nick Tsivanidis is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Economics in the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He is also Co-Director of the Cities Research Programme at the International Growth Center (IGC).

Tsivanidis is an applied economist with interests across Urban and Regional Economics, Development Economics, and Applied Macroeconomics. His research uses new sources of data to understand the process of urbanization in emerging economies. His recent research includes: examining the impact of Bus Rapid Transit on productivity...

Jeffrey Vincent

Director, Public Infrastructure Initiatives
Lead Researcher
UC Berkeley Center for Cities & Schools
Alumni
Instructor

Jeffrey M. Vincent, PhD is a director and cofounder of the Center for Cities & Schools (CC&S) at the University of California, Berkeley. Jeff has a PhD in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley. His policy and research interests lie at the intersection of land use planning, community development, and educational improvement, with a particular focus on how school facilities serve as educational and neighborhood assets. Jeff has researched and written extensively on a variety of issues, including school infrastructure planning, school siting and design, sustainable communities,...

Paul Waddell

Professor Emeritus
City and Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design
Faculty

Paul Waddell teaches and conducts research on modeling and planning in the domains of land use, housing, economic geography, transportation, and the environment. He has led the development of the UrbanSim model of urban development, now used by Metropolitan Planning Organizations and other local and regional agencies for operational planning purposes in a variety of U.S. metropolitan areas such as Detroit, Houston, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as internationally in a growing...

Joan Walker

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Global Metropolitan Studies
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Faculty

Joan Walker’s research focus is behavioral modeling, with an expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations.

Professor Walker joined UC Berkeley in 2008 as faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a member of the interdisciplinary Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS) initiative. She received her Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley and her Master's and PhD degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT....

Peggy Wang

Research Engineer
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Lead Researcher

Dr. Pei (Peggy) Wang has been an assistant research engineer at the California PATH program since June 2017. She received her Ph.D. in Human Factors and Ergonomics from Tsinghua University, and formerly worked at General Motors China R&D as an HMI researcher. She has been involved with research in cross-cultural studies of in-vehicle speech systems, data analytic studies for Apple Carplay usage, and driving styles studies for automated vehicles. Since her role began, she has led the human-factors team in PATH while conducting research projects funded by Caltrans, SB-1, and industrial...

Tom West

PATH Co-Director (On recall)
Lead Researcher
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Thomas West has over 30 years of professional experience in the conduct and management of transportation research, development, and deployment. Tom holds an advanced degree in Electrical Engineering and a Professional Engineering license in the State of California.

Tom previously serves as the Director of the California Program for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at the University of California, Berkeley. California PATH has been a leader in ITS research since its founding in1986, focusing on technical solutions to a wide spectrum of transportation challenges including...

Catherine Wolfram

Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of Faculty
Haas School of Business
Faculty

Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business. She also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty. She is the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Environment and Energy Economics Program, and an affiliated faculty member in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley.
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Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. Her work has analyzed rural electrification programs in the developing world...

Chiwei Yan

Assistant Professor
Faculty
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Chiwei Yan is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. His research centers around transportation and logistics systems, with a recent focus on emerging problems in online platforms. He also has a particular interest in air transportation systems. His work aims to study fundamental properties of these problems and propose (data-driven) practical solutions for implementation.

He received his Ph.D. from the Operations Research Center at MIT and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University. Before joining Berkeley IEOR,...

Chiwei Yan

Assistant Professor
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Chiwei Yan received his Ph.D. from the Operations Research Center at MIT and his BS in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University. Before joining Berkeley IEOR, he taught at the University of Washington Seattle and was a senior data scientist in the marketplace group at Uber where he designed the rider surge pricing algorithm.
His research centers around transportation and logistics systems, with a recent focus on emerging problems in online platforms. He also has a particular interest in air transportation systems. His work aims to study fundamental properties...