Leadership

Ching-Yao Chan

BDD Co-Director
Lead Researcher
Berkeley DeepDrive
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Dr. Ching-Yao Chan is Co-Director, along with Prof. Trevor Darrell(link is external) and Prof. Kurt Keutzer(link is external), of Berkeley DeepDrive (...

Trevor Darrell

Berkeley Deep Drive Director
Professor
Berkeley DeepDrive
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Faculty

Professor Trevor Darrell is the Director of Berkeley DeepDrive at the University of California, Berkeley. He is on the faculty of the CS Division of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley and he is also appointed at the UC-affiliated International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). Darrell’s group develops algorithms for large-scale perceptual learning, including object and activity recognition and detection, for a variety of applications including multimodal interaction with robots and mobile devices. His interests include computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, and perception-...

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...

Julia Griswold

Director
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Alumni
Lead Researcher

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley, 2013

MA Geography, San Francisco State University, 2006

BA Linguistics, Pomona College, 2001

Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) - Present

Director

Julia is the Director at SafeTREC and serves as technical lead on projects related to bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Her research expertise and interests...

Mark Hansen

NEXTOR Director
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
NEXTOR II
Alumni
Faculty

PhD Transportation Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1988

MCP City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, 1984

BA Physics and Philosophy, Yale University, 1980

University of California, Berkeley - Present

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mark Hansen is a Professor of Civil and Environmental...

Arpad Horvath

TSRC Co-Director
Professor
Transportation Sustainability Research Center
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Life Cycle Analysis

Arpad Horvath is a Professor in the Engineering and Project Management Program and in the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering major, Construction Engineering and Management minor) from the Technical University of Budapest (Hungary).

His research interests are in developing methods and tools for life-cycle assessment of civil infrastructure systems and other...

Kurt Keutzer

BDD Co-Director
Professor
Berkeley DeepDrive
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Kurt received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1984 and then joined the research division of AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 he joined Synopsys, Inc. where he ultimately became Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research. In 1998 Kurt became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Kurt’s research now focuses on parallel computing and its application to computer vision, speech recognition, multi-media analysis, machine learning, and computational finance.

Kurt has...

Kendra K. Levine

Transportation Library Director
Transportation Library
ITS Berkeley

Kendra is a specialist in transportation information, data and research. In her role as Research Librarian for the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies, Kendra assists with research related to all major modes of transportation, focusing on new technologies and systems innovations that promote sustainable transportation. Her expert knowledge of the field’s online and print resources is supplemented by an in-depth familiarity with transportation classification and terminology that she has gained indexing books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and scholarly journal...

Tim Lipman

TSRC Co-Director
Lead Researcher
Transportation Sustainability Research Center
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Renewable Energy

Timothy E. Lipman is an energy and environmental technology, economics, and policy researcher and lecturer with the University of California - Berkeley. He is serving as Co-Director for the campus' Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), based at the Institute of Transportation Studies, and also as Director of the Northern California Center for Alternative Transportation Fuels and Advanced Vehicle Technologies (NorthCAT -- see "northcat.org") effort. Tim's research focuses on electric-drive vehicles, fuel cell technology, combined heat and power systems, biofuels, renewable...

Jane Macfarlane

Smart Cities Director
Lead Researcher
ITS Berkeley
Smart Cities Research Center
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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...