People

Research Professor

Aaron Steinfeld (CMU)

Assistant Professor

Corey Harper (CMU)

Assistant Professor

Destenie Nock (CMU)

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; Interim Executive Director, Mobility21

Karen Lightman (CMU)

Stakeholder engagement and partner collaboration

Professor

Raj Rajkumar (CMU)

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

Professor

Sean Z Qian (CMU)

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

Executive Director

Kate Burns (MetroLab)

Transportation Behavior Analyst / Senior Research Scientist

Andrew Duvall (NREL)

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

Project Leader

Joseph Fish (NREL)

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

Researcher, Engineer, and Partnerships Lead

Joshua Sperling (NREL)

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

Sam Lott (NREL)

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, Mobility Innovations and Equity

Stanley E. Young (NREL)

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

Team Lead, Transportation Modeling and Metrics

Venu Garikapati (NREL)

Travel behavior and travel demand modeling; Equitable accessibility calculations.

Director of Research & Consulting

Colin Murphy (SUMC)

Shared mobility policy and systems analysis.

Director, California and Western States Programs

Lauren N. McCarthy (SUMC)

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

Research Analyst

Miriam Pinski (SUMC)

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

Assistant Research Professor

Abhay Lidbe (UA)

Transportation Equity and Accessibility research

Associate Professor

Alex Hainen (UA)

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

Elsa Tedla (UA)

Assistant Professor

Jun Liu (UA)

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

Assistant Professor

Mizanur Rahman (UA)

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

Assistant Research Professor

Praveena Penmetsa (UA)

Professor and Interim Executive Director, Alabama Transportation Institute

Steven Jones (UA)

Leading the University of Alabama team.

Professor

Adam Millard-Ball (UCLA)

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.

Equity Research Manager, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Adonia Lugo (UCLA)

Managing equity and workforce research for the COE.

Professor

Ali Mosleh (UCLA)

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 (UCLA)

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 (UCLA)

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.

Director of Mobility COE

Jiaqi Ma (UCLA)

Director of the Mobility COE

Deputy Director, Institute of Transportation Studies

Juan Matute (UCLA)

Mobility COE Program Manager

Assistant Professor

Tierra Bills (UCLA)

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

Yifang Zhu (UCLA)

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.