Council of Directors
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA; Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Berkeley; Chancellor’s Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Jean-Daniel Saphores, Ph.D.; Chair, UC ITS Council of Directors (July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027)
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Irvine; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Davis; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Staff
Mark Garrett, Ph.D.
Copy Editor
garrett.ucla@gmail.com
Sandra Hemingway
Research & Outreach Manager
shemingway@ucits.org
Seth Karten
Copy Editor
sdkarten@ucdavis.edu
Gagandeep Kaur
Administrative Assistant
gnpkaur@ucdavis.edu
Kendra Levine
Research, Outreach, and Web Services Librarian
kklevine@berkeley.edu
Laura Podolsky
Executive Director
lpodolsky@ucits.org
Rashmit Shrestha
Administrative Assistant
rlshrestha@ucdavis.edu
Alejandra (Ale) Soto
Webinar and Event Assistant
alesot@ucdavis.edu
Jared Sun, Ph.D.
System Manager
zhes@uci.edu
Thomas Wong
Administrative Assistant
tmjwong@ucdavis.edu
Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI)
Susan Shaheen, Ph.D.
RIMI Director; Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
sshaheen@ucits.org
Brooke Wolfe
Analyst, Program Delivery Team
brooke.schmidt@berkeley.edu
ITS Campus Staff Leadership
Sydney E. Cliff
Senior Program Manager, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
secliff@ucdavis.edu
Juan Matute
Deputy Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA
jmatute@ucla.edu
Laura Melendy
Assistant Director Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
melendy@berkeley.edu
Craig Rindt, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Research Coordination, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Irvine
crindt@uci.edu
Whitney Willis
Assistant Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA
wwillis@ucla.edu
