Faculty/Lead Researcher

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...

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
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...

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,...

Dimitrios Zekkos

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Alumni
PhD, 2002 – 2005. University of California at Berkeley, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Geoengineering Program. Doctoral Thesis Title: “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste”. Master of Science in Geoengineering (MS), 2001 –2002, University of California at Berkeley. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Joint BS/MEng Degree (5-year required program), 1996 – 2001, University of Patras, Department of Civil Engineering, Greece.

Wei-Bin Zhang

Research Engineer
Lead Researcher
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

WEI-BIN ZHANG is a Research Engineer at the California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies of University of California at Berkeley (UCB). Mr. Zhang received advanced degrees in communication and control engineering from Northern Jiaotong University, where he has extensive training in safety design and safety verification for railway control system. Between 1982 and 1987, Mr. Zhang was a Lecturer at Northern Jiaotong University and taught railway interlocking and blocking systems and was involved in earlier development of railway computer control systems. Both his teaching and...

Kun Zhou

Program Manager
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Lead Researcher

Dr. Kun Zhou is an accomplished Associate Research Engineer with the California PATH program, part of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his Ph.D. in Controls in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley in 2004, he joined PATH as a researcher in 2005. There, in conjunction with the collaborative Connected Corridors research program, he became responsible for the operations of the California Connected Vehicle Test Bed.

This was a multi-year, cooperative project conceived to research, develop, and test an Integrated Corridor...

Miriam Zuk

Nonresident senior fellow
Lead Researcher
Urban Displacement Project
Center for Community Innovation
Alumni
Institute of Governmental Studies

Miriam Zuk, Ph.D. is a cofounder of the Urban Displacement Project and previously served as its first director. She is now a nonresident senior fellow, acting as a strategic advisor. Miriam has over 15 years of experience in the fields of environmental justice and equitable development. She previously worked as the Deputy Director of Air Quality Research for the Mexican Ministry of Environment in Mexico City. Miriam received her Ph.D. in City Planning from UC Berkeley, her M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT and her B.A. in Environmental Sciences from Barnard College.