Founding Director
Ali Shamshiripour, Ph.D.
Founding Director of the Urban Ecosystems (UE) Lab
Assistant Director of the Center for Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
Graduate Research Assistants
Yeji Jeon *
Ph.D. Student (Fall 2025 - Present)
Concentration:
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Multimodal Transportation
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Transit Orientation
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Travel Behavior
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Data Science
Education: B.Sc., Systems Engineering
* Joined in Spring 2024 as Undergraduate Research Assistant co-advised by Dr. Yao-Jan Wu, and transitioned to a Graduate Research Assistant co-advised by Dr. Wu in Fall 2024, before fully transitioning th the UE Lab in Fall 2025.
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Fri., June 20 | The Academy, L.A |
Thu., June 19 | Bamboo, Santa Barbara |
Sat., June 28 | Cheers, Santa Cruz |
Wed., July 6 | The Roxy, San Francisco |
Danial Chekani
Ph.D. Student (Fall 2024 - Present)
Concentration:
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Emerging Mobility
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Transit Orientation
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Explainable AI
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Data Science
Education: B.Sc., Computer Science
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Fri., June 20 | The Academy, L.A |
Thu., June 19 | Bamboo, Santa Barbara |
Sat., June 28 | Cheers, Santa Cruz |
Wed., July 6 | The Roxy, San Francisco |
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Alex Skylar Edmundson
Fall 2025 - Present
Concentration:
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Multimodal Transportation
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Transit Orientation
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Data Science
Isabel Rei Zann
Summer 2025 - Present
Concentration:
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Data Science
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Mobility Landscape
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Commercialization of Interstate Right-of-Way
Alumni
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Chanh Cong Ha
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Concentration:
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Multimodal Transportation
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Transit Orientation and Active Mobility
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Data Science
