ITS Faculty

Stephen G. Ritchie

Chancellor's Professor, Director of ITS
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, Cornell University
Areas of Interest
Transportation engineering, advanced traffic management and control systems, development and application of emerging technologies
Email
sritchie@uci.edu

Amelia Regan

Professor Emeritus
Computer Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, University of Texas, Austin
Areas of Interest
Freight network analysis, logistics, intermodal operations, applications of ITS to commercial vehicle operations
Email
aregan@uci.edu

Avipsa Roy

Assistant Professor
Urban Planning and Public Policy
PhD, Arizona State University
Areas of Interest
Active transportation, transportation equity, machine learning, crowdsourced data, emerging technologies, spatial statistics
Email
avipsar@uci.edu

David Brownstone

Professor Emeritus
Economics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest
Panel study methodology, discrete choice models, bootstrap methodology, housing demand
Email
dbrownst@uci.edu

Dominic J. Bednar

Assistant Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Public Polic
PhD, University of Michigan
Areas of Interest
Energy and environmental justice; just transition; energy efficiency; public policy and program analysis; spatial analysis; race/ethnicity; community organizing and development; mobility
Email
dbednar@uci.edu

Douglas Houston

Associate Professor
Planning, Policy, and Design
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest
Transportation, air pollution, urban inequality, environmental equity, spatial analysis.
Email
houston@uci.edu

Elisa Borowski

Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Areas of Interest
Transportation equity and justice, shared mobility, community needs and impacts, travel behavior during extreme events
Email
borowski@uci.edu

Federico E. Vaca

Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine
M.D., Creighton University School of Medicine, 1992, Medicine
M.P.H., University of California Los Angeles, 2002
Areas of Interest
Injury and Prevention Science; Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Epidemiology; Young Driver Behavior and Driving Simulation; Alcohol/Drug Impaired Driving Prevention; Alcohol/Injury-Related Health Disparities
Email
fevaca@uci.edu

Gordon J. "Pete" Fielding

Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences
Economics
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest
Urban economics, transportation economics, transportation geography, public transportation,transportation management, road pricing.
Email
gjfieldi@uci.edu

Jacqueline Huynh

Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Areas of Interest
Design of aircraft systems and operations, aviation environmental impacts, aeroacoustics
Email
huynhlj@uci.edu

Jae Hong Kim

Associate Professor
Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Interest
Regional economic development, land use, economic–physical development nexus, location choice, urban system modeling
Email
jaehk6@uci.edu

Jan Brueckner

Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
Economics
PhD, Stanford University
Areas of Interest
Urban economics, public economics, industrial organization, and housing finance
Email
jkbrueck@uci.edu

Jean-Daniel Saphores

Professor, Chair of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Economics; Planning, Policy, and Design
PhD, Cornell University
Areas of Interest
Environmental and natural resource economics and policy (with a special interest for water resources, waste management, and the management of stock pollutants), transportation economics, planning and policy, quantitative methods
Email
saphores@uci.edu

Jun Wu

Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Program in Public Health
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest
Air pollution exposure assessment and air pollution epidemiology
Email
junwu@uci.edu

Joseph F. DiMento

Professor
School of Law
PhD, J.D. University of Michigan
Areas of Interest
Environmental law, Land use regulation, Urban planning
Email
jfdiment@uci.edu

Linda R. Cohen

Professor
Joint appointment in Economics and Law
PhD, California Institute of Technology
Areas of Interest
Economics and law, government regulation and policy, political economy
Email
linda.cohen@uci.edu

Magnus Egerstedt

Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Ph.D., KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, Applied Mathematics, 2000
Areas of Interest
Control theory and robotics, control and coordination of complex networks, multirobot systems, mobile sensor networks and cyber-physical systems
Email
magnus@uci.edu

Matthew Dean

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2023
Areas of Interest
Sustainable transportation and energy systems, transportation-energy modeling and decision-making, shared automated vehicles
Email
matthew.dean@uci.edu

Michael Hyland

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, Northwestern University
Areas of Interest
Modeling, design, control, and analysis of smart city transportation systems with emphases on shared-use autonomous mobility services and urban transit networks
Email
hylandm@uci.edu

Michael G. McNally

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, University of California, Irvine
Areas of Interest
Transportation systems analysis, travel forecasting models, complex travel behavior, transportation and land use
Email
mmcnally@uci.edu

Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
PhD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Areas of Interest
Cyber-physical systems security, Automotive and transportation systems security, electric vehicle design and optimization
Email
alfaruqu@uci.edu

Nicholas J. Marantz

Assistant Professor
Urban Planning and Public Policy
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D. Harvard Law School
Areas of Interest
Land-use & environmental law, housing, public-private programs, state and local government
Email
nmarantz@uci.edu

Qi Alfred Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Areas of Interest
Software security, network protocol security, DNS system security, smartphone system security, CPS/IoT system security, access control system security, vulnerability discovery and analysis, side channel attack and defense
Email
alfchen@uci.edu

R. Jayakrishnan (Jay)

Professor, Director of Transportation Science
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, University of Texas, Austin
Areas of Interest
Analysis and simulation of urban traffic networks under information, traffic flow theory, traffic assignment, advanced transit technologies
Email
rjayakri@uci.edu

Raymond W. Novaco

Professor
Psychology and Social Behavior
PhD, Indiana University
Areas of Interest
Anger, Violence, Stress, Trauma, and Interventions
Email
rwnovaco@uci.edu

Robin Keller

Professor Emeritus
The Paul Merage School of Business
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest
Decision analysis, risk analysis, creative problem structuring and behavioral decision theory

Email
lrkeller@uci.edu

Rodolfo Torres

Professor Emeritus
Urban Planning and Public Policy and Political Science
PhD, Claremont Graduate School
Areas of Interest
Radical urbanism, Mexican American politics and labor, economic democracy, and Marxist inspired political economy
Email
rodolfo@uci.edu

Sarah L. Catz

Research Associate, Lecturer
Urban Planning & Public Policy Department
JD, University of Santa Clara
Areas of Interest
Transportation, Transit, Land Use, Energy, Sustainability
Email
scatz@uci.edu

Scott Samuelsen

Professor Emeritus
Mechanical Aerospace and Environment Engineering
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest
Energy generation, distribution and utilization including the production of electricity, motive power, and propulsive power.
Email
gss@uci.edu

Tom Golob

Researcher Emeritus
Institute of Transportation Studies
Areas of Interest
Travel demand forecasting, multivariate statistical methods, attitude-behavior models, activity analysis, micro-simulation forecasting methods
Email
tgolob@uci.edu

Victoria Basolo

Professor
Urban Planning & Public Policy
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil
Areas of Interest
Housing and community development policy, urban governance, and environmental hazards in urban settings
Email
basolo@uci.edu

Virginia Parks

Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy
PhD, University of California Los Angeles
Areas of Interest
Commuting disparities; equity and transportation; labor market and transportation system nexus

Email
vparks@uci.edu

Wenlong Jin

Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, University of California, Davis
Areas of Interest
Traffic flow theory, transportation network analysis, intelligent transportation systems
Email
wjin@uci.edu

Will Recker

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University
Areas of Interest
Transportation systems analysis, analysis of complex travel behavior, disaggregate modeling methodologies, advanced technologies
Email
wwrecker@uci.edu