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Transportation Engineering

 

Research in transportation engineering covers various topics including traffic system operations and control, intelligent transportation systems, transportation planning, transportation network system analysis, travel behavior and demand modeling, resilient infrastructure systems and health monitoring, and highway safety. Specifically, the program focuses on new mobility technologies and systems and considers the intersection of travel behavior, economics, engineering, regulation, and infrastructure as technology and business forces lead to new mobility options, such as automated and connected vehicles, electric vehicles, vehicle/ride sharing, and micromobility.
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Doctoral Programs

Research

Faculty and Lecturers

 

 

Tierra Bills, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

tsbills@ucla.edu 4731E Boelter Hall / 6381 Public Affairs  (310) 206-2552

Travel Behavior Modeling, transportation equity, transportation economics, emerging data for travel modeling, public transportation

 

 

 

Enrique Lopez Droguett, Ph.D.

Professor

eald@ucla.edu  Boelter Hall

Bayesian inference and artificial intelligence supported digital twins and prognostics and health management based on physics informed deep learning for reliability, risk and safety assessment of structural and mechanical systems

 

 

 

 

Jiaqi Ma, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

jiaqima@ucla.edu 4731G Boelter Hall (310) 206-3212

Advanced vehicular technologies, vehicle automation, and electrification; urban analytics for future mobility and smart cities; resilient, secure, smart transportation and logistics infrastructure

 

 

Regan Patterson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

reganfp@ucla.edu  5731F Boelter Hall

Environmental justice; air pollution, air quality modeling; exposure assessment; sustainable transportation; transportation equity

 

Sriram Narasimhan, Ph.D.

Professor

snarasim@ucla.edu  3731D Boelter Hall

Transportation infrastructure management, sensing and robotics for infrastructure, robotic infrastructure inspection, deep defect detection

Youngseo Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

youngseo@ucla.edu 4731J Boelter Hall

Human-Centered Smart Mobility System, Automated Decision Making in Cyber-Physical System, Mathematical Programming and Optimization, Deep/Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Modeling and Game Theory

Chen Tang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

ctangac@ucla.edu 5731E Boelter Hall

Autonomous robots in human-centered environments; autonomous driving; robot navigation and mobile manipulation; machine learning and controls; physical AI.
 

Hasan Ikhrata

Lecturer

ikhratahasan@gmail.com

 
 

Robert Campbell

Lecturer

freeway@ucla.edu