Research Faculty and Staff

ITS research faculty and staff are drawn from departments across UCLA and are appointed to conduct research for ITS based on their scholarly achievements in areas that align with the center’s mission.

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Research Program Leads

Evelyn BlumenbergDirector of Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies / Professor of Urban Planning

Lead, Access to Opportunities

J.R. DeShazoDirector of Luskin Center for Innovation / Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning

Lead, Sustainable and Resilient Transportation

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Professor of Urban Planning / Associate Dean of the School of Public Affairs

Lead, Transportation and Communities

Jiaqi MaAssociate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

Lead, New Mobility

Michael ManvilleAssociate Professor of Urban Planning

Lead, Traffic

Donald ShoupDistinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning

Lead, Parking

Brian D. TaylorDirector of the Institute of Transportation Studies / Professor of Urban Planning

Lead, Public Transit

Martin Wachs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning

Lead, Transportation Finance

Faculty, Lecturers and Research Staff

Eric AvilaProfessor of Chicana/o Studies, History and Urban Planning

Yousef BozorgniaProfessor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering seismology

Scott BrandenbergAssociate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Madeline BrozenDeputy Director of Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

complete streets, bicycle planning, parks

Colleen CallahanDeputy Director at Luskin Center for Innovation

environmental justice

Genevieve CarpioAssistant Professor, Chicano Studies

Latino mobility, car culture, historical access to vehicles and upward social mobility

Xiang 'Anthony' ChenAssistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Intelligent User Interfaces

William ClarkProfessor Emeritus of Geography

urban geography, spatial demography

Charles CorbettProfessor, Anderson School of Management

Dana CuffProfessor of Architecture/Urban Design and Urban Planning

Rajit GadhDirector of UCLA SMERC / Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

John GahbauerResearch Consultant at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Mark GarrettResearch Consultant at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Jonathan Grossman Professor of English Literature

Lei HeProfessor of Electrical Engineering

Electric vehicles, smart grid

Richard JacksonChair and Professor, Environmental Health Sciences; Professor of Urban Planning

Michael JerrettProfessor of Environmental Health Sciences

Mobility & Public Health

Suk-Young KimProfessor of Theater

Director of the Center for Performance Studies

Robin LiggettProfessor Emeritus of Urban Planning

Anastasia Loukaitou-SiderisProfessor of Urban Planning; Associate Dean of the School of Public Affairs

Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Redevelopment

Asad MadniDistinguished Adjunct Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Juan MatuteDeputy Director of UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Public Transit, shared mobility, parking, climate change

Ankur MehtaProfessor of Electrical Engineering

Robotics, Wireless Sensor Networks, MEMS

Sam MorrisseyLecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Walter OkitsuLecturer, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Traffic Engineering, Transportation

Paul OngDirector of Center for Neighborhood Knowledge / Research Professor

Taner OsmanLecturer, Urban Planning

Land Use, Urban Economics, technology, impact of high-technology industries on local economies.

Aydogan OzcanProfessor of Electrical Engineering

Suzanne PaulsonProfessor and Center for Clean Air Director

Greg PierceAssistant Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning

sustainability, resource inequality, parking, Equity, Electric vehicles, environmental policy and politics

Mason PorterProfessor, Department of Mathematics

Deepak RajagopalAssistant Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Mohja RhoadsLecturer, Urban Planning

Land Use, Transportation, climate change, urban geography

Izhak RubinDistinguished Professor and Area Director, Signals and Systems

Andrew SchoutenPost-Doctoral Researcher at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Ryan SnyderPrincipal, Active Transporation

Transportation, sustainability

Jonathan StewartProfessor and Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Paulo Tabuada Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Cristina TiradoLecturer, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Urban health, active transport

Ondine Von EhrensteinLecturer, Public Health

Global Health, Perinatal and Child Health and Development, Environmental impacts on health ranging from toxicology, Life-Course and Reproductive Epidemiology, Child Health Disparities

Jacob WassermanResearch Project Manager at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Nancy WayneProfessor, Department of Physiology School of Medicine

Reproductive Neuroendocrinology, Physiology, Environmental Regulation of Reproduction

Arthur WinerDistinguished Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Chee Wei WongProfessor of Electrical Engineering

LIDAR systems for sensing including autonmated vehicles

Lin YangAssistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Machine Learning; Computer Science

Yifang Zhu Professor, Fielding School of Public Health