Staff

Hossein Nick Zinat Matin

postdoctoral researcher
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Delle Monache Research Group

I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Delle Monache's research group at UC Berkeley. I received my Ph.D. and Master's degrees in system engineering and pure mathematics focused on "Stochastic Analysis of Optimal Velocity Dynamical Model" from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Additionally, I hold a master's degree in optimization from Sharif University of Technology.

Michael Mauch

Assistant Research Engineer
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Dr. Mauch is an Assistant Research Engineer at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) and California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH). Dr. Mauch supports all phases of research projects including proposal writing, designing and performing technical analysis, developing and delivering presentations and project management, and is responsible for crafting complete reports of research findings. Dr. Mauch’s current research collaborator at CA PATH is Professor Alexander Skabardonis.

From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Mauch served as a Senior Development Engineer...

Melissa Nelson

Administrative Assistant
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Melissa Nelson is an Administrative Assistant at California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology.

Krista Nordback

Research Data Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Krista Nordback is a senior research associate at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center with an additional appointment as a Research Data Analyst at the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). Her work focuses on bicycle and pedestrian traffic and safety. She has researched non-motorized traffic counting technologies and programs for Colorado, Michigan, Oregon, California, and Washington State departments of transportation as well as multiple cities and regions around North America. She currently serves as...

Fiona Norton

Research Data Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
SafeTREC

Fiona Norton is a Research Data Analyst at UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), where she supports multiple ongoing research projects.

She holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Quantitative Analysis and an M.S. in Quantitative Economics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Dana Oldknow

Training Program Manager and Registrar
TechTransfer

Dana is TechTransfer's Training Program Manager and Registrar. Dana has 23 years of professional experience in event planning and professional development in both the public and private sectors. She’s been with TechTransfer since 2001. She currently manages the event planning team and registration and is responsible for delivery of more than 100 training events annually and registering more than 3,000 participants each year.

Contact Dana if you have any questions regarding TechTransfer course delivery,...

Fredda Olivares

Instruction Delivery Team Member
TechTransfer

Fredda is a member of TechTransfer's delivery team who specializes in conferences, executive education, and our Airport Systems Planning and Design short course for NEXTOR. Contact Fredda if you have any questions regarding course delivery, conferences, or the airport short course.

Lucia Ornelas

Policy and Program Analyst
SafeTREC

Lucia Ornelas is a Policy and Program Analyst at UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) where she supports the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program and Street Story. Prior to joining SafeTREC, she worked with government and non-profit agencies to provide community outreach and education in infectious disease prevention and harm reduction programs. Through her public health work, she is committed to advancing social justice and racial and health equity.

Lucia holds a Master of Public Health from San José State University and a Bachelor of...

Matthew Raifman

Transportation Safety Researcher
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Dr. Matthew Raifman is an expert on estimating the co-benefits of sustainable transportation, with academic experience modeling transport-related physical activity, estimating the health effects of air pollution, and quantifying disparities in traffic fatalities by race/ethnicity. At SafeTREC, his research focuses on understanding how the changing composition of the passenger vehicle fleet impacts incidence of traffic fatalities, unpacking how automated vehicles may affect road safety, and exploring novel approaches to setting speed limits in the U.S.

He previously was a senior...

Ryk Sheppard

Researcher
UC Pavement Research Center

Ryk Sheppard is a researcher at the UC Pavement Research Center Berkeley.