Nikou Khoshnevis Asl is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, specializing in transportation engineering. She is also a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley SafeTREC, where she assists with projects identifying speeding-related crash locations and pedestrian safety. Nikou completed her M.S. in transportation engineering at UC Berkeley and her BSc. in civil engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.
Jacob Champlin is a second year M.S. and MCP student in both transportation engineering and city planning at UC Berkeley. His research interests are in transportation equity, land use, and traffic safety for vulnerable road users. When not doing schoolwork, Jacob loves to explore the outdoors with his bike and finish an adventure with a scrumptious vegetarian meal at his local Taco Bell.
Katarina Cook is an M.D. - Ph.D student at UC Davis School of Medicine and Institute of Transportation Studies, specializing in automotive medicine and road injury prevention. For summer 2025, she is a Visiting Student Researcher at UC Berkeley SafeTREC, assisting on projects identifying the risk of pedestrians involved in hit-and-runs. Katarina completed her M.S. in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical School and her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.
Wesley Darling is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley and a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. Wesley has received an M.S. in transportation engineering from UC Berkeley, a B.S. in civil engineering from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Masuma Mollika Miti is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, specializing in transportation engineering. She is also a graduate student researcher at SafeTREC, where she assists with projects identifying speeding-related crash locations. Masuma completed her M.S. in transportation engineering at UC Berkeley and her BSc. in civil engineering from the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh. Her research focuses on safety, equity, and sustainability in the transportation sector, with an emphasis on integrating modern technology...
Mike Santos is a student in the MEng transportation engineering and master of city planning programs at UC Berkeley. He earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering and master of education degrees, both from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to attending UC Berkeley, Mike was a long-time high school math, science, and engineering teacher. He hopes to further his mission of building a better society by supporting equitable transit, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure. At UC Berkeley SafeTREC he is supporting research to decriminalize jaywalking.
