Council of Directors
Chair, UC ITS Council of Directors (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025); Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Berkeley; Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA; Associate Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Irvine; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Davis; Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, UC Davis
Staff
Mark Garrett, Ph.D.
Copy Editor
garrett.ucla@gmail.com
Sandra Hemingway
Research & Outreach Manager
shemingway@ucits.org
Kendra Levine
Research, Outreach, and Web Services Librarian
kklevine@berkeley.edu
Adonia Lugo, Ph.D.
Equity Research Manager
alugo@ucla.edu
Laura Podolsky
Executive Director UC Institute of Transportation Studies
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
Caitlin Vu
Administrative Assistant
caivu@ucdavis.edu
Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI)
Susan Shaheen, Ph.D.
RIMI Director; Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
sshaheen@ucits.org
Sonia Haug
RIMI Student Assistant
sbhaug@ucdavis.edu
ITS Campus Staff Leadership
Lauren Iacobucci
Assistant Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
liacobucci@ucdavis.edu
Juan Matute
Deputy Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA
jmatute@ucla.edu
Whitney Willis
Assistant Director Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA
wwillis@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
