Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in the transportation and safety research realm. In today's post, meet graduate student researcher Qianhua Luo.
Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I was born and raised in a beautiful and livable city called Huizhou in the south of China. In 2014, I started college in Tongji University, Shanghai and chose to major in Transportation. I got the opportunity to study in the Transportation program at UC Berkeley as an...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Graduate Student Researcher Greg Harasym. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I’m from Staten Island, NY and have had a passion for transportation policy and research for as long as I could remember. Working for New York City Transit’s Capital Program Management division provided me with an insight on climate resiliency and rehabilitation projects, which...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Postdoctoral Researcher Nicholas (Nick) Fournier. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I think of myself as a hybrid between the planning and engineering worlds – two fields that I believe do not communicate with each other as often as they should! I have degrees in both Regional Planning and Transportation Engineering and have a broad range of experience,...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Visiting Scholar Sang-Hyeok Kang. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I was born in Cheongju, Korea. I received my bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, and master's and doctoral degrees in Construction Project Management from...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Postdoctoral Researcher Md. Mintu Miah. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I started my career as a postdoctoral researcher at SafeTREC in August 2022, just after completing my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington. My Ph.D. dissertation title was ‘’Data Fusion for Non-Motorized Volume Estimation: A Machine Learning Approach.” Before this, I...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Applications Programmer Liwei Fu. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I was born and lived in Wuhan, China for 22 years before I left the country for post secondary studies. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Wuhan University, with a major in Geospatial Information...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Postdoctoral Researcher Soheil Sohrabi. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I am a postdoctoral researcher at SafeTREC starting June 1st, 2022. Before that, I was a postdoc at Texas A&M Transportation Institute, right after receiving my Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. My doctoral research was centered on leveraging statistical modeling and data...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Postdoctoral Researcher Iman Mahdinia. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I am a postdoctoral researcher at SafeTREC starting May 1st, 2023. Before that, I was a postdoc at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), right after receiving my Ph.D. from there. My doctoral research was centered on exploring the potential impacts of connected and...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Application Programmer Simon Kao. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since coming to California after getting my Masters in Computer Science from Brown University. Prior to that, I lived in Connecticut and Virginia. My family moved to Virginia from Hong Kong when I was in Junior High School, but I was...
Welcome back to the SafeTREC Spotlight Series where we highlight a SafeTREC team member and share their stories, work and interest in transportation and safety research. In today's post, meet Research Data Analyst Ipsita Banerjee. Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at SafeTREC?
I am a Research Data Analyst at SafeTREC. Some of you may also know me as the instructor for the graduate course CE259 Public Transportation Systems in the College of Engineering. I received my undergraduate and Master's degrees...
