Staff

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...

Julia Fonturbel

R&D Engineer
UC Pavement Research Center

Liwei Fu

Applications Programmer
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Liwei Fu is the Applications Programmer at SafeTREC. She works on taking a data-driven approach to help resolve traffic safety issues. She is involved in building crowdsourced data tools, tribal data analysis, and various other traffic injury mapping tools. She has experience in data management and statistical models, and works with time series and spatial data.

Amir Gholami

Postdoctoral Researcher
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Amir Gholami is a postdoctoral research fellow in BAIR Lab. He received his PhD from UT Austin, working on bio-physics based image analysis, a research topic which received UT Austin’s best doctoral dissertation award in 2018. He is a Melosh Medal finalist, recipient of best student paper award in SC'17, Gold Medal in the ACM Student Research Competition, as well as best student paper finalist in SC’14.

Gabriel Gomes

Lecturer and Assistant Research Engineer
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Alumni

Dr. Gomes is a lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department Mechanical Engineering and an project advisor in the Fung Institute in the Masters of ngineering program. He is also a control systems engineer with expertise in the areas of traffic modeling, simulation, and control. He earned his doctorate degree in controls at U.C. Berkeley in 2004. He then joined the California Center for Innovated Transportation (CCIT) where he participated in several projects spanning a variety of traffic related topics. Dr. Gomes joined PATH as an Assistant Research Engineer in 2008.

Julia Griswold

Director
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Alumni
Lead Researcher

Julia is the Director at SafeTREC and serves as technical lead on projects related to bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Her research expertise and interests include collection and processing of nonmotorized transportation data, bicyclist and pedestrian and exposure modeling, improving access to safety data, and bicyclist level of service measures.

Julia developed her first pedestrian exposure model for her master's thesis in Geography at San Francisco State in 2006. She began working at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher in 2009, continued as a...

Irwin Guada

Assistant Development Engineer
UC Pavement Research Center
ITS Morale Committee

Irwin Guada is an Assistant Development Engineerat the UC Pavement Research Center at UC Berkeley's Ricmond Field Station.

Roxana Infante

Administrative Officer
Berkeley DeepDrive

Roxana Infante is an Adminstrative Officer at Berkeley DeepDrive and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research.

Jay Johnson

Digital Communications
TechTransfer
ITS Morale Committee

Jay is a member of TechTransfer's delivery team who handles digital communications for TechTransfer and student services for our Learn2Launch program. Contact Jay if you have questions regarding course delivery, questions or concerns about our website or monthly email updates, or have questions regarding our Learn2Launch program.