Ipsita Banerjee is a transport planner with interests in sustainability, safety, transit research, and travel demand analysis. She has worked at UC Berkeley SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher and as a policy and program analyst. In her present role as a lecturer at UC Berkeley, she is teaching the SafeTREC graduate course on traffic safety and injury prevention and on public transportation systems. Outside of SafeTREC, she has led efforts on travel demand analysis of work commuters, and ridership prediction for a transit authority, including for the city of Bangalore, India.
Ipsita has a master's in planning (transport) from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in transportation engineering from UC Berkeley.