Staff

Dimitis Kapsalis

postdoctoral researcher
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Postdoctoral researcher

Ami Katagiri

Administrative Officer
Berkeley DeepDrive
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Ami Katagiri is an Adminstrative Officer at Berkeley DeepDrive and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research.

Farzad Kouroshnezhad

Research Engineer
UC Pavement Research Center

Farzad Kouroshnezhad is a Research Engineer at the UC Pavement Research Center.

Kris Leckie

Policy & Program Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Kris Leckie is a Policy & Program Analyst at the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). They will be supporting the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program and the California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages (CATSIP) website. Prior to joining SafeTREC, Kris worked as a Senior Community Organizer at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition where they worked alongside community members, advocacy groups and city agencies to implement bike and pedestrian safety projects. In particular, they led major projects to...

Sujin Lee

Postdoctoral Researcher
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
SafeTREC

Sujin Lee is a postdoctoral scholar at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley.

Her current research focuses on examining how regional characteristics and safety measures contribute to reducing traffic crashes and creating safer transportation environments. She is also interested in the intersection of travel demand and urban attributes, using insights from multifaceted datasets to promote sustainable urban development and enhance travel demand management.

She earned her Ph.D. (2024) and M.S. (2019) from the Graduate School of Mobility...

Nancy Leon

Finance Manager
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Nancy Leon is the Finance Analyst of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). She supervises the Administrative team and manages the center’s funding from several sponsors.

Nancy has worked for UC Berkeley for over 15 years and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from the State University of San Francisco California.

Yu-ke Li

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Dr. Yu-ke Li is a postdoctoral researcher at California PATH, UC Berkeley. Prior to joining PATH, Dr. Li did research on crowds behavior analysis, video understanding and applications on real world requirements, such as autonomous vehicles. He obtained his Ph.D in Wuhan University, China. He also spent his career in France, Italy, Canada and China as a researcher.
Dr Li’s primary research collaborators at PATH are Dr. Ching-Yao Chan, who is the Program Leader at PATH and the Associate Director of Berkeley DeepDrive, and Dr. Pin Wang.

Rui Lin

Postdoctoral Scholar
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Liza Lutzker

Research Data Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Liza Lutzker, MPH (she/her) is a Research Data Analyst with SafeTREC and a doctoral student in epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Liza earned a BA with majors in Biology and Philosophy from Amherst College and an MPH in Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health. She has worked widely across the field of environmental and occupational epidemiology, including at both the Massachusetts and California Departments of Public Health, and for the last 10 years in the Environmental Health Sciences division at the Berkeley School of Public Health. Outside of work, she...

Iman Mahdinia

postdoctoral researcher
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Dr. Iman Mahdinia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley. Before that, he was a postdoctoral research associate in civil and environmental engineering with a concentration in Transportation Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) from 2021 to 2023. He earned his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering-transportation engineering from UTK and his M.S. in statistics from Haslam College of Business at UTK in 2021. He also received his master’s in Transportation Planning from the Amirkabir...