Staff

Simon Kao

Application Programmer
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Simon Kao is an Application Programmer at the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). Simon's current projects include building web applications for safety and exposure data. He received his MS in Computer Science from Brown University.

Dimitis Kapsalis

postdoctoral researcher
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

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
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

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
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Ana Lopez

Policy & Program Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Ana is a Policy and Program Analyst at SafeTREC. She holds Bachelors’ Degrees in Social Welfare and Spanish Language from UC Berkeley and is currently a Master of Urban Planning student at San Jose State University. Through her experience in data collection and research, she supports various transportation safety research projects ranging from observing pedestrian and bicycle interactions with the built environment, analyzing the dynamics and limitations of statewide collision records systems, and engaging with local residents and safety advocates with the objective of building...