Faculty & Staff
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah
Interim Director and Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
Transit planning, policy and operations, Intelligent Transportation Systems, comparative international transportation systems, equity and the measurement of mobility and accessibility, transportation modeling, simulations and Spatial Decision Support Systems
370 CUPPA Hall 312.355-0447
Karin Allen
Research Transportation Program Manager and Interim Assistant Director for Research Programs
Transportation Demand Management, Job Access/Reverse Commute, public transit planning and operations, public/private partnerships
372 CUPPA Hall 312.996.9357
Silvia Becerra
Program Coordinator
340 CUPPA Hall 312.996.4821
Joseph DiJohn
Director, METSI and Research Professor
Public transit planning and operations, freight analysis, congestion management and pricing, public/private partnerships
368 CUPPA Hall 312.996.1458
Lise Dirks
Research Transportation Specialist
Land Use and Travel Behavior, Public Transportation Planning and Policy, Job Access/Reverse Commute Program, Geographic Information Systems in Transportation
351 CUPPA Hall 312.413.1198
Kazuya Kawamura
Associate Professor
Freight transportation, Transportation Economics, Congestion Pricing, Accessibility
234 CUPPA Hall 312.413.1269
Paul Metaxatos
Research Assistant Professor
Passenger and Freight Demand Forecasting, Intelligent Transportation Systems Planning, Transit Planning
366 CUPPA Hall 312.996.4713
Ashish Sen
Professor Emeritus
Transportation Statistics, Modeling, Transportation and Land Use, ITS, Performance Measurement
347 CUPPA Hall 312.996.2578
Vanessa Smith
Associate Director for Business and Finance
343 CUPPA Hall 312.413.1920
Siim Sööt
Associate Professor Emeritus and Retired Director
Urban sprawl, travel demand
362 CUPPA Hall 312.996.2666
P.S. Sriraj
Senior Associate and Research Assistant Professor
Public transportation systems, Welfare-to-work, Transportation Asset Management, GIS in transportation, socio-economic factors in transportation, and systems thinking/complex problems in transportation
353 CUPPA Hall 312.413.7568
George Yanos
Principal Research Programmer
Information technology and transportation
349 CUPPA Hall 312.413.0059
Affiliated Faculty
Darold Barnum
Professor, Managerial Studies
Timothy Johnson
Director of the Survey Research Lab and Professor, Public Administration Program
Jie (Jane) Lin
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering
Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering
Peter Nelson
Dean, College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Anthony Pagano
Associate Professor, Managerial Studies
Michael Pagano
Interim Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Professor, Public Administration Program
Joseph Persky
Professor, Department of Economics
Eric Welch
Associate Professor, Public Administration Program
Ouri Wolfson
Richard and Loan Hill Professor, Computer Science
Students
Barbara Bhojraj
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.2667
Curtis Bright, Jr.
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.2667
Caitlin Cottrill
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.9818
Andrew Heidel
Graduate Research Assistant
312.413.3116
Yandan Lu
Graduate Research Assistant
312.413.0746
Jasmine Pope
General Office Aide
312.996.4820
Wenjing Pu
Graduate Research Assistant
312.413.0746
Minyan Ruan
Graduate Research Assistant
Amir Samimi
Graduate Research Assistant
Hersh Singh
Graduate Research Assistant
312.413.3116
Matthew Smith
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.2667
Rajmonda Sulo Cáceres
Graduate Research Assistant
312.413.3116
Tanushri Swarup
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.2667
Lei Tang
Graduate Research Assistant
312.413.0746
William Vassilakis
Research Aide
312.996.2667
Yi Wang
Graduate Assistant
312.996.2667
Nilay Yavuz
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.2667
Emily Ziring
Graduate Research Assistant
312.996.2667
Visiting Faculty
Yingling Fan
Visiting Research Assistant Professor
254 CUPPA Hall
C. Jotin Khisty
Visiting Scholar
347 CUPPA Hall 312.996.7568
Susumu Kudo
Visiting Scholar
374 CUPPA Hall 312.996.9818
H. Onur Tezcan
Visiting Scholar
374 CUPPA Hall 312.996.9818

