Staff

Angie Abbatecola

BAIR/BDD Administrative Director
Berkeley DeepDrive
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Angie Abbatecola is the Administrative Directorfor Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research and Berkeley DeepDrive.

Mohamed AlKadri

Visiting Scholar
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Dr. AlKadri has been associated with PATH since 1992. He began as a Resident Research Representative for Caltrans then as a Resident Caltrans Researcher. He worked with Drs. Steve Shladover and Randy Hall on the development of the National Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture (NITSA). He later worked with several PATH researchers including Dr. Joy Dahlgren, Dr. Jacob Tsao, Dr. Hong Lo, Dr. Mark Hickman, Dr. Jeff Ban and Professor David Gillen collaborating on variety of research projects in the areas of systems engineering, economic analysis, and decision support systems. Most...

Areli Ariana Balderrama

Policy and Program Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Areli Ariana Balderrama is a Policy and Program Analyst at SafeTREC. They hold a BA in Comparative Literature, a minor in Black Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and a Master of Public Health + a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan. Through their experience in data visualization, policy and research, they will support projects that promote healthier and safer communities.

Ipsita Banerjee

Research Data Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Ipsita Banerjee is a transport planner with interests in sustainability, transit research, and travel demand analysis. She has worked at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher and as a policy and program analyst. In her present role as Research Data Analyst, she works on Caltrans’s project on Safe Systems Research and Implementation. Outside of SafeTREC, she has led efforts on travel demand analysis of Electronics City commuters, and ridership prediction for a transit authority, both for the city of Bangalore, India. She was also a lecturer at UC Berkeley, teaching the graduate course on...

Madelin Barry

Researcher
UC Pavement Research Center

Josh Bass

California PATH Operations Director
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Josh Bass is the Operations Director of California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH).

Michael Bowman

R&D Engineer
UC Pavement Research Center

Jeffrey Chang

Research Administrator
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Jeffrey Chang is a Research Administrator at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). He assists the Finance Manager in administering SafeTREC's finances and also works with research staff to help coordinate project activities. He started working at SafeTREC as a student assistant, and after receiving his degree in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, joined SafeTREC full-time.

Jarah Crowner

Policy & Program Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

At SafeTREC, Jarah coordinates Street Story: a community engagement platform that collects information about transportation collisions, near-misses, hazards, or safe places to travel. She provides technical assistance to organizations and agencies on how to use the tool within the communities they serve. Jarah also serves as support staff for the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training program.

Previously, Jarah worked as a Biorepository Specialist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In this capacity, she collected health information, blood specimens and...

Matthew Elke

Staff Research Engineer

Matthew Elke joined TSRC in May 2012, after receiving his Master of Science in Engineering from UC Berkeley. His prior research included metals and energy analysis of automobile construction and the life-cycle emissions associated with the production and use phase of automobiles. His main interests focus on the increased penetration of, and the life-cycle emissions associated with, battery electric, hybrid drive, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and how they compare to traditional internal combustion engine vehicles.

Education:
UC Berkeley (MS,...