Leadership

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...

Angel Mateos

UCPRC Berkeley Principal Investigator
Lead Researcher
UC Pavement Research Center

Angel Mateos is Principal Investigator of the UC Pavement Research Center at Berkeley. He has served as Principal Investigator in numerous research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry for Public Works, the European Union, the World Bank, and Caltrans, among others. Former Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Pavement Engineering at Universidad Europea de Madrid. His main expertise is in full-scale and mechanistic-empirical design of asphalt and concrete pavements, and fundamental characterization and modelling of pavement materials....

Scott Moura

PATH Faculty Director/Professor
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director: Energy, Controls, and Applications Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Energy Resources Group
Faculty
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology Director
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Scott Moura is the Faculty Director of Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology Director and a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2011, the M.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 2008, and the B.S. degree from the UC Berkeley, in 2006 – all in Mechanical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego in the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, and a visiting researcher in the Centre Automatique et Systèmes at MINES...

Jasenka Rakas

NEXTOR Deputy Director/Continuing Lecturer and Research Development Engineer
Continuing Lecturer and Research Development Engineer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
NEXTOR II
Faculty

Jasenka Rakas has the following research interests: Availability and reliability of communications, navigation and surveillance systems, airport systems planning and design, airport and airspace capacity and delay analysis, systems modeling and performance analysis, National Airspace System (NAS) infrastructure performance and investment analysis, NAS maintainability, air traffic flow management, cost/benefit analysis, simulation modeling and analysis, human factors and cognitive psychology

Daniel Rodriguez

ITS Director and Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Professor
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute of Transportation Studies Leadership
City and Regional Planning
Faculty

Daniel A. Rodríguez is the Director of the Institute for Transportation Studies and the Chancellor’s Professor of City and Regional Planning. His research focuses on the relationship between transportation, land development, and the health and environmental consequences that follow.

A majority of Professor Rodríguez’s work is driven by practical problems and finding solutions for planners and policy-makers. Working with researchers in health, economics, engineering, geography and public policy, he has examined how changes to the physical attributes of the...

Susan Shaheen

Transportation Sustainability Research Center, Co-Director And Innovative Mobility Research Lab, Director
Professor
Transportation Sustainability Research Center
Innovative Mobility Research
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty

Susan Shaheen is a pioneer in future mobility strategies. She was among the first to observe, research, and write about the changing dynamics in shared mobility and the likely scenarios through which automated vehicles will gain prominence. She is an internationally recognized expert in innovative mobility strategies and a Professor In-Residence in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. She also co-directs the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) of the Institute of Transportation Studies – Berkeley. She was the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in...