Job title:
Graduate Student Researcher
Bio/CV:
Lin Yang is a PhD candidate in the Transportation Engineering field of University of California, Berkeley and a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. He is under the supervision of Professor Michael Cassidy and Doctor Offer Grembek. His main interest lies in the relationship between transportation flow theory and highway safety. His dissertation work is about trying to use shockwave theory to improve CalTrans' hotspot identification accuracy. Previous work also includes developing Safety Performance Functions for CalTrans.