People

Research Professor at CMU

Aaron Steinfeld

Assistant Professor at CMU

Corey Harper

Assistant Professor at CMU

Destenie Nock

I focus on energy equity and systems analysis. I am apart of the Cmu team and have previously done transportation electrification work.

Executive Director, Metro21 and Safety21 US DOT National UTC at CMU

Karen Lightman

Stakeholder engagement and partner collaboration

Professor at CMU

Raj Rajkumar

Actively participate in and lead research projects related to mobility, as it also relates to (V2X) connectivity and automation aspects, simulation capabilities and analyses.

Transportation Behavior Analyst / Senior Research Scientist at NREL

Andrew Duvall

Support for planning, implementation, and analysis of research and applied projects.

Project Leader at NREL

Joseph Fish

Joe will be NREL’s lead for project management, financial tracking, coordination, quality control, and oversight.

Researcher, Engineer, and Partnerships Lead at NREL

Joshua Sperling

JTBC- Transdisciplinary research , stakeholder and community engagement, publications and white papers, sharing of data tools resources , strategic partnerships, diversity-equity-inclusion-accessibility (DEIA) opportunities, infrastructure and institutional analysis, tradeoff analysis on decarbonization – equity – resilience, human-centered design, incubator /startup technical assistance /objective market assessment capabilities, urban/ community science , behavioral/decision science, transformative pathways for technology, planning, policy, behavior change, evidence-based decision making, and finance; Informing/shaping new business models.

Automated Transit Mobility Specialist at NREL

Sam Lott

Career expertise in automated guideway transit system applications for district and major activity center access and circulation, combined with current experience in automation technology development through automated/autonomous vehicle applications in transit service will support the project efforts in the study of automated mobility districts. Current work within NREL is addressing the connectivity aspects of new mobility through on-demand service modes, as well as the convergence of automation with electrification of transport vehicle systems.

Team Lead, Transportation Modeling and Metrics at NREL

Venu Garikapati

Travel behavior and travel demand modeling; Equitable accessibility calculations.

Director of Research & Consulting at SUMC

Colin Murphy

Shared mobility policy and systems analysis.

Senior Director, Research and Impact at SUMC

Lauren N. McCarthy

Lauren will contribute to research and analysis and provide administrative and budgetary oversight for SUMC’s role in the COE.

Assistant Research Professor at UA

Abhay Lidbe

Transportation Equity and Accessibility research

Associate Professor at UA

Alex Hainen

Dr. Hainen has been heavily involved with planning, designing, deploying, and publishing in the areas of traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation systems management and operation (TSMO), and connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). He will continue these efforts with this endeavor.

Transportation Research Engineer at UA

Elsa Tedla

Assistant Professor at UA

Jun Liu

Participate in and lead mobility research at the University of Alabama, focusing rural, small and medium-sized urban areas.

Assistant Professor at UA

Mizanur Rahman

Automated vehicles, transportation digital twin, and cybersecurity/privacy research

Assistant Research Professor at UA

Praveena Penmetsa

Professor at UCLA

Adam Millard-Ball

Adam-Millard Ball will lead Thrust 1 of the COE, Land Use and Urban Planning. Millard-Ball will co-lead the Zoning sub-group, which will scrutinize the effects of zoning policies on the deployment of new mobility technologies.

Professor at UCLA

Ali Mosleh

Ali Mosleh will co-lead the Resilience and Reliability and Security sub-groups under Thrust 2 – Systems Analysis and Optimization. Resilience and Reliability will address resilient design and system reliability. Security will investigate best practices to protect new mobility systems from potential threats.

Professor and Director, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor will co-lead the Land Resource Management sub-group of Thrust 1 – Land Use and Urban Planning. This group will study land resource management in the context of urban planning for new mobility. He will also co-lead the Municipal Budgets group under Thrust 1, which will understand how municipal budgets can adapt to accommodate and promote new mobility technologies.

Professor and Director, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Evelyn Blumenberg

Evelyn Blumenberg will co-lead Thrust 3 – Human Centered Design. Thrust 3 focuses on mobility equity and fair access to technologies, workforce equity, health, and safety. She will also co-lead the sub-group on Mobility Equity to ensure equitable access to mobility.

Assistant Professor at UCLA

Tierra Bills

Tierra Bills will co-lead the Mobility Equity sub-group under Thrust 3 – Human Centered Design. The group wil focus on equitable access to mobility.

Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs at UCLA

Yifang Zhu

Yifang Zhu will co-lead the Health sub-group of Thrust 3 – Human Centered Design, examining the contribution of new mobility technologies to public health.

Senior Fellow at UCLA

Hasan Ikhrata

Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA Mobility Lab & Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences

Camila Correa-Jullian

Director of State & Local Innovation at FAS

Kate Burns

Professor at UCLA

Jiaqi Ma

Director of the Mobility COE

Professor and Interim Executive Director, Alabama Transportation Institute

Steven Jones

Leading the University of Alabama team.

Research Analyst at SUMC

Miriam Pinski

Leading the SUMC team; focus on research in area of urban planning, urban design and real estate.

Team Lead, Mobility Innovations and Equity at NREL

Stanley E. Young

Leading the NREL team; System Analysis and Optimization with special emphasis on Energy and Mobility Energy Productivity of emerging mobility systems.

Professor at CMU

Sean Z Qian

Leading the CMU team; focus on System Analysis and Optimization and Human-Center Design.

Autonomous Vehicles Policy Lead at SFCTA

Jean Paul Velez

Research Scientist at UCLA

Xishun Liao

Assistant Legal Researcher at UA

Justin Fisher

Associate Professor at UO

Anne Brown

Professor at UO

Nico Larco

Deputy Director at UCLA ITS

Juan Matute