Kyler is a first-year Masters student in UC Berkeley's City and Regional Planning program, with a focus on safety mobility and access to affordable housing. He has worked at several community-serving non-profits and most recently on state and local active transportation policy at the national advocacy group PeopleForBikes. At SafeTREC, Kyler is supporting the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) and the Center's other active transportation safety research priorities.
Lekshmy Hirandas is a city planning graduate student at UC Berkeley. She is an architect-urban designer from Kochi, India, and worked with a global non-profit organization before joining the program. Her work at the World Resources Institute in Mumbai, India focused on designing safe and accessible streets under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety. At UC Berkeley, her work is focused on transportation planning and Just Transition.
Kai is a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning, whose research interests lie at the intersection of transportation planning, environmental exposure, and health equity. He holds a BS in Urban Planning from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and a MSc in Transport from Imperial College London and University College London. His current research projects look at the association between heat exposure and road safety risks, with a particular focus on food-delivery motorcyclists.
Qianhua Luo is a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley SafeTREC and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Dimitris Triantis is a transportation engineering graduate student at UC Berkeley as well as a Graduate Student Researcher at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). He studied Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he completed his diploma thesis on trajectory prediction of autonomous vehicles and pedestrians during their interactions in urban areas. His main interest areas are traffic engineering, road safety and autonomous vehicles.
Melody Tsao is a Graduate Student Research at SafeTREC, assisting with the development of a Safe System approach to establishing speed limits. She is a city planning and transportation engineering graduate student at UC Berkeley and received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to graduate school, she worked as an ITS/Traffic Designer in Pennsylvania.