Staff

Adrienne L. Joseph

Research Administrator
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Adrienne L. Joseph is one of UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center’s (SafeTREC) Research Administrators. She is part of the Administrative team and is primarily responsible for the center’s procurement as well as grant administration. Adrienne has worked for UC Berkeley for over 20 years and holds an Associates Degree in Accounting from Heald Business College.

I-Hsi Kao

Visiting Scholar
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I-Hsi Kao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1994. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National United University, Miaoli, Taiwan, in 2016, and his M.S. degree in mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering from National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 2018, where he is working toward his Ph.D. in mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering. He is currently a visiting scholar in Berkeley DeepDrive, California PATH, UC Berkeley.

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.

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.

Misha Laskin

Postdoctoral Scholar
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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...

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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