Leadership

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Junfeng Jiao

Director

Dev Niyogi

Co-Director

Arya Farahi

Co-Director

Paul Navratil

Co-Director

Kijin Seong

Postdoctoral Researcher

Yiming Xu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Saleh Afroogh

Senior Research Coordinator | AI Research Fellow

Graduate Students

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Ahyoung Chang

PhD Student in Community & Regional Planning

Aaron Purewal

Masters in Artificial Intelligence

Yu Chen

Masters in Community & Regional Planning and Urban Design

Francisco Ostrander

Masters in Mechanical Engineering

Dong Ho Kang

PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering

Seung Jun Choi

PhD Student in Community & Regional Planning

Samikshya Gyanwali

Masters in Community & Regional Planning

Huihai Wang

PhD Student in Community & Regional Planning

Marianne Saab

Masters in Community & Regional Planning

Connor Phillips

PhD Student in Community & Regional Planning

Abhejay Murali

Masters in Computer Science

Jiaxuan Huang

PhD Student in Community & Regional Planning

Undergraduate Students

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Ryan Hardesty Lewis

Bachelors in Mathematics

Tigris Mendez

Bachelors in Economics

Shashank Kota

Bachelors in Computer Science

William Davis

Bachelors in Urban Studies

Kevin Chen

Bachelors in Economics

Past Members

Leadership

Weijia Xu Texas Advanced Computing Center → Director of Data Science, VISA
Dr. Amin Azimian (Smart Transportation) → Design Engineer, Terra Engineering
Dr. Chen Feng (Urban Informatics) → Research Scientist, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Kirsten Dalquist Research Program Coordinator → Assistant to the Chair, University of Denver (DU)

PhD Students

Shunhua Bai (Planning) → Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Juan Yunda (Planning) → Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Greg Griffin (Planning) → Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Jack Bringardner (Engineering) → Industry Assistant Professor, NYU
Kwangyul Choi (Planning)–Assistant Professor, The University of Oklahoma
Jojo France-Mensaha (Engineering) → Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Hao Wu → PhD Student, Tong Ji University
Josh Conrad, Doctorate in Architecture

Graduate Students

Katie Enders (Planning) → Assistant Planner, Puget Sound Regional Council
Naomi Nelson (Planning) → Transportation Analyst, Kimley-Horn
Josiah Lindquist (Planning) → Planner, AECOM
Seung Jun Choi (Planning) → PhD Student, UT Austin
Rand Makarem (Planning) → PhD Student, U of Michigan
Ying Rui Zhao (Planning) → PhD Student, U of Maryland
Sam Lee (CAEE) → Startup
Qi Qian Yang (Planning) → Data Scientist, Apple
Chris Bichak (Planning) → Data Scientist, Noblis
Akik Patel (Planning) → Transportation Planner, AECOM
Haitao Yu (Planning) → Transportation Analyst, Kittelson & Associates
Aaron Nichols (Planning)—Research Scientist, TU Munich
Zack Lofton (Planning) → Transportation Planner, City of Austin
Nathalie Kip (Planning)—Research Assistant, UBC
Nicole McGrath (Planning) → Transportation Planner, CDM Smith
Yang Yang (Planning) → Transportation Engineer, Marlin Engineering
Louis Alcorn (Planning/Transportation Engineering) → Transportation Planner, WSP
Chia-Hui Liu (Information Science) → Data Scientist, Deutsche Bank
Jianwei Chen (Computer Science) → Software Engineer, Google
Xuyang Chen (Computer Science) → Software Engineer, Yext
Toshi Ogura (Tourism Science) → PhD Student, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Po Yuan Huang (Economics) → PhD Student, UNC
Dong Xu He (Transportation Engineering) → Transportation Engineer
Abby Johnson, Research Program Coordinator

Undergraduate Students

Leo Bao (Mathematics)
Prachi Ingle (Computer Science)
Hyun Tea Kim (Architecture)
Kent Hensen (Computer Science) → Software Engineer, HubSpot
Nathaniel A Degen (Computational Biology) → Data Analyst, SALi Services
Rahul Gupta (Computer Science) → Derivatives Trader, Optiver
Mihir Pethe (Mathematics) → Consultant, BCG
Mira Bhat (Finance) → Finance Analyst, Intel
Mohamad Abouelnaaj (Neuroscience)
Grant Shaffer, Bachelors in Finance → Finance Analyst, Microsoft