Staff

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...

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...

Md Mintu Miah

postdoctoral researcher
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Md Mintu Miah is a postdoctoral researcher with the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley. His research interests include Non-motorized Traffic (Bicycle and Pedestrian), Travel Demand Modeling, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence in transportation engineering. He develops statewide pedestrian and bicycle exposure models to identify road design features or other characteristics of counters/locations to enhance pedestrian and bicyclist safety programs. He also prepares guidelines for count data collection and processing, and...

Melissa Nelson

Administrative Assistant
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

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

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...