Group Photo @ 2024 TRB Annual Meeting with my doctoral advisor Prof. Asad Khattak from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

@ 2024 TRB AM with my post-doc advisor Prof. Kara Kockelman from University of Texas at Austin.
Group Meeting Photo 05/03/2024 @ UA. Not pictured: Sophie Menner, Benjamin Barria Martinez, and Carter Buchanan.

Current Students:

Mr. Ningzhe Xu (CCEE PhD student)

  • Topic: Transportation security, Responder safety

Mr. Javier Pena Bastidas (CCEE PhD Student)

  • Topic: Advanced travel demand modeling

Mr. Brandon Madden (CCEE Undergraduate Student)

  • Topic: Responder Safety

Miss. Joan White (CCEE Undergraduate Student)

  • Topic: Transportation Safety

Miss. Yanfang Su (CCEE PhD Student)

  • Topic: Transportation Safety

Mr. Jiayi Kong (CCEE PhD Student)

  • Topic: Agent-based modeling/simulation

Mr. Xiao Zou: (CCEE PhD Student)

  • Topic: EV Routing

Mr. Handa Shi (CCEE PhD Student)

  • Topic: Agent-based modeling

Mr. Jackson Fields (CCEE Undergraduate Student)

  • Topic: Responder Safety

Alumni: 

Dr. Tolulope Sanni (CCEE PhD Student) – Current Employment: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), California State University, Fresno, CA

  • Dissertation– “The Role of Immersive Visualization Technologies for Natural Disaster Risk Communication”.

Miss. Sophie Menner (CCEE Master’s Student)

  • Non-thesis research: Shared autonomous vehicles

Mr. Benjamin Barria Martinez (CCEE Master’s Student, Fulbright Scholar)

  • Topic: Travel Behavior

Dr. Chenxuan Yang (CCEE PhD student) – Current Employment: Traffic Engineer, AECOM

  • Dissertation: “Envisioning Urban Air Mobility in Small and Medium-Sized Urban Areas in the United States“. 

Dr. Zihe Zhang (CCEE PhD student) – Current Employment: Transportation Planner & Traffic Engineer · Volkert, Inc.

  • Dissertation: A Shared Low-Speed Light-Weight Autonomous Mobility (SLLAM) System for Campus Environments”

Miss. Sophie Menner (CCEE undergraduate student)
Mr. Sawyer Griffy (CS undergraduate student)
Miss. Natalie Crisci (CCEE undergraduate student)
Dr. Xing Fu (CCEE PhD student) – Current Employment: Modeler, Discover Financial Services

  • Dissertation: An Exploratory Approach to Digitizing the Operational Environments for Connected and Automated Vehicles”

Mr. Md Musfiqur Rahman (Musfiq) Bhuiya (CCEE MS student), co-advised with Prof. Steven Jones – Current Employment: Doctoral Student at UC Davis

  • Non-thesis research: Safety and mobility of people with disabilities 

Dr. Xiaobing Li (ATI Postdoc) – Current Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of South Florida
Dr. Weike Lu (ATI Postdoc) – Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Soochow University, China
Dr. Qifan Nie (CCEE PhD student) – Current Employment: Chief Engineer, Hangzhou Polyful Advanced Material Ltd.

  • Dissertation: “Preparing Small Urban Areas for Shared Mobility with Autonomous Vehicles: A Case Study of College Town

Mr. Stephen Poptic (CCEE MS student) – Current Employment: Assistant Structural Engineer, Burns & McDonnell, Dallas, TX

  • Thesis: “Anticipating the Benefits of Dedicated Connected and Automated Vehicle Lanes on Interstate

Mr. Tanner Carr (CCEE MS student) – Current Employment: Project Engineer, TTL, Inc., Birmingham, AL.

  • Non-thesis research: Toll plaza safety

Mr. Josh Lambert (CCEE undergraduate student)
Miss. Hannah Carter (CCEE undergraduate student)
Miss, Selina Rausch (CCEE undergraduate student)
Mr. Ismael Jones (CCEE undergraduate student, not pictured)

Team in TRB 2023 Annual Meeting Presenting Responder Safety Research
In the TRB 2023 Annual Meeting, there was special poster session themed “Roadside Safety”. All papers in this session were our papers. It was literally a Session of UA.
Group Meeting in Spring 2022

Group Photo in the 101st TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC, January, 2022

Photo taken during the 99th TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC, January, 2020.