Staff

Brian Peterson

Development Manager
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

Brian Peterson is a Systems Development Manager with over 28 years of experience in the engineering and software development industries. His career has included work with aircraft gas turbine maintenance and research, flight management systems, systems engineering, and software development in small and enterprise level projects. Since joining PATH he has managed the Connected Corridors program’s Systems Development team. The team is responsible for three primary objectives:

Develop a pre-production, first generation Decision Support System as part of the effort to develop an Integrated...

Dong Phuong Tran

Visiting Scholar
Transportation Sustainability Research Center

Dong Phuong Tran is a research scholar at Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) at U.C. Berkeley. His current research interests include electric vehicle policy, energy transition, and transportation safety. He has been employed by the Vietnamese Government for over 30 years with the General Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, and PetroVietnam. Dong's main tasks are to conduct environmental and social impact assessments for energy development projects such as hydropower, coal thermal power plants, and offshore oil and gas...

Emily Rogers

Research Associate
Transportation Sustainability Research Center

Emily joined TSRC after earning her M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in May 2020. She specialized in the energy, civil infrastructure, and climate program. Her research interests include public transit decarbonization, impacts of electric vehicles on the electricity grid, electric vehicle charging optimization, and transportation equity. Prior to attending UC Berkeley, Emily completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering while conducting research on the energy-water nexus at USC. She grew up in Davis, California.

Ryk Sheppard

Researcher
UC Pavement Research Center

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

Glenn Shor

Lecturer
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Glenn Shor is a Lecturer. He retired as Research and Policy Advisor at CalOSHA, California Department of Industrial Relations in December 2019. He managed California/BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program, and worked with Workers’ Compensation Information System (WCIS). From 2010 to 2012, he was on loan as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Department of Labor, Washington DC.
He served in several positions in California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) including Project Manager, Chief of...

John Spring

Research & Development Engineer, 3
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

John Spring has been a software engineer at California PATH since 2006. He has written software for interprocess communications using messaging, semaphores, and shared memory. With collaboration with scientists and engineers at UC Berkeley, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, and the California Department of Transportation (CalTans) he designed software systems for the command and control of vehicles and infrastructure. Such systems include truck platooning, signalized left turn-collision avoidance, animal warning, cooperative adaptive cruise...

Amalia Stahl

Research Data Analyst
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Amalia Stahl is a Research Data Analyst at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley. She previously attended Georgetown University where she obtained both her B.A. in mathematics and fine arts and her M.S. in data science and analytics.

Heidi Story

Research Administrator
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

Bernadette Tan Edwards

Work Zone Safety Training Program Manager
TechTransfer

Bernadette is TechTransfer's Work Zone Safety Training Program Manager, she handles all of their work zone related training. You should contact Bernadette if you have any questions about the content of our work zone training classes or would like to schedule a class delivery for your group.

Peggy Wang

Research Engineer
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Lead Researcher

Dr. Pei (Peggy) Wang has been an assistant research engineer at the California PATH program since June 2017. She received her Ph.D. in Human Factors and Ergonomics from Tsinghua University, and formerly worked at General Motors China R&D as an HMI researcher. She has been involved with research in cross-cultural studies of in-vehicle speech systems, data analytic studies for Apple Carplay usage, and driving styles studies for automated vehicles. Since her role began, she has led the human-factors team in PATH while conducting research projects funded by Caltrans, SB-1, and industrial...