Academic and Research Faculty
Blue highlights indicate ITS-Davis faculty who are affiliated with the Graduate Group in Transportation Technology and Policy (TTP).
Name
Title
Research Interests
- Founding Director, ITS-Davis;
- Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Science
- Transportation, energy, and climate policy
- "3 Revolutions" of automated, shared, and electric vehicles
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Analytical, computational and experimental studies of turbulent flame propagation and combustion instabilities
- Development of computational models and algorithms for simulation of reactive-flow dynamics
- Biological-fluid dynamics
- Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
- Energy policy and planning
- Use and interpretation of scientific knowledge/information in environmental policy decisions and processes
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Mathematical modeling and simulation of dynamic systems-bond graph approach
- Vehicle dynamics
- Global chassis control systems
- Alternative powertrain
- Energy optimization
- Automatic and robust control
- Professor, Plant Sciences
- Director, UC Davis Road Ecology Center, John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE)
- Nitrogen-fixing plants
- Plant-microbe interactions in symbiotic biological nitrogen fixation
- Professor, Graduate School of Management
- Consumer choice behavior
- Choice modeling
- New product development and introduction
- Travel behavior, vehicle choice and alternative fuel vehicles
- Research Engineer, ITS-Davis
- Electric and hybrid vehicle design, analysis, and testing
- Applications of batteries and ultracapacitors for electric vehicles
- Industrial organization and regulation
- Energy economics and policy
- Environmental economics
- Game theoretic optimization models
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Innovative Infrastructures and Rehabilitation using Advanced Composite Materials
- Large-scale Testing and Numerical Simulations
- Design, Analysis and Durability of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites
- Design and Analysis of Bridges
- Engineered Materials using Recycle Tires
- Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, ITS Davis
- Travel Behavior
- Personal Attitudes and Lifestyles
- Travel Demand Forecast
- Discrete Choice Modeling
- Emerging Trends in Transportation and Shared Mobility Services
- Mobility of Young Adults (Millennials)
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) on Transportation
- Land Use Modeling
- Smart Growth and Sustainable Transportation
- Land Use and Transportation Interaction
- Energy Consumption from Transportation and Land Use
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Fluid Dynamics, Droplet Dynamics, Biological Fluid Dynamics
- Combustion and Flame Propagation, Internal Combustion Engines
- Chimera Grid Methods, and Numerical Methods
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Electric and Hybrid Drive Vehicles
- Fuel Cell Vehicles and Power Systems
- Hydrogen Production and Utilization
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Solar Energy Utilization
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Transportation and renewable energy infrastructure system modeling and optimization
- Critical transportation and energy system protection
- Adaptive network routing and research allocation processes
- Stochastic and dynamic system modeling and computational methods
- Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- Development Economics
- Energy Economics
- Microeconomic Theory
- Assistant Professor, Design
- Bike share
- Solar charging for electric vehicles
- Public transportation
- Autonomous electric vehicle share systems
- Sustainable urban design
- Ecological materials
- Social entrepreneurship
- Emeritus Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical design
- Control systems
- Electric-hybrid vehicles
- Internal combustion engine design
- Dynamics of machines
- Automated highways
- Ground transportation systems
- Director, STEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways)
- International transport and energy policy
- Transportation technology potential, costs and benefits
- Global energy transition modeling
- Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering
- Electrical Field/Current Activated Sintering
- Chair, Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Group
- Graduate Adviser, Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Group
- Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
- Interim Director, Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS)
- Associate Director for Education, Institute of Transportation Studies
- Director, National Center for Sustainable Transportation
- Relationships between transportation and land use
- The impact of land use on travel behavior
- Factors influencing bicycling as a mode of travel
- Strategies for reducing automobile dependence
- Professor of Technology Management
- Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Management
- Director, Energy Efficiency Center
- The effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship
- Development and commercialization of sustainable technologies
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Principal Investigator, UC Pavement Research Center
- Pavement engineering, including materials, construction, design, management, life cycle cost and environmental life cycle assessment
- Assistant Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
- Energy geography and energy knowledge systems
- Environmental impacts, trade-offs, and synergies of energy development
- Land use, land sparing, and energy infrastructure planning
- Food-energy-water nexus
- Sustainable solar energy development and wildlife interactions
- Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Industrial and transportation engineering
- Sustainable transportation systems
- Humanitarian logistics
- Supply chain management
- Operations research
- Professor, Biology and Agricultural Engineering
- Energy systems in agriculture
- Biomass fuel production, thermal conversion, and environmental impacts
- Combustion and gasification of biomass fuels
- Properties of fuels
- System models
- Assistant Professional Researcher, ITS-Davis
- Alternative fuel vehicle adoption
- Transitions to sustainable energy systems
- Quantitative policy analysis
- Big data statistical analysis
- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Life cycle modeling applied to transportation systems
- Energy systems
- Construction materials, and buildings, with the goal of developing sustainable systems
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Assistant Project Scientist, STEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways)
- Zero Emission Vehicles
- Vehicle grid integration
- Smart grids
- Storage systems
- Integrated energy systems modeling
- Techno-economic optimization
- Grid integration
- Renewable energy
- Water-energy nexus
- Carbon tax policy
- Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Mass and charge at solid interfaces
- Size effects on oxygen and proton conduction in solids
- Solid oxide fuel cells, Nanoscale chemical/bio-sensors
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Study of urban and regional air quality problems
- Composition of atmospheric particles and gas-to-particle conversion processes
- Assistant Adjunct Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
- Renewable energy technologies
- Associate Researcher, ITS-Davis
- Household response to alternative fuel and electric-drive vehicles
- Energy, climate, and environment in household travel choices
- Behavioral theory in transportation and energy
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Battery system (modeling, diagnostic, and control), Electric vehicle, Automotive system, Vehicle to grid
- Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and Environmental Science & Policy
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- Energy Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Econometrics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Director, Center for Water-Energy Efficiency
- Water and waste
- Water treatment
- Water reuse
- Small and decentralized waste treatment
- Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy
- Human behavior
- Role of governance institutions in solving collective action problems and facilitating cooperation
- Faculty Researcher and Associate Director, Energy Efficiency Center
- Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- How people and equipment use energy; opportunities to reduce energy consumption
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Life cycle assessment
- Alternative materials development
- Sustainability and structural design
- Senior Development Engineer, ITS-Davis
- Reducing greenhouse gases in the transportation sector using new fuels and vehicle technologies
- Modeling the transportation sector (especially trucking) to understand the effect of integrating new technologies into the various truck fleets
- Laboratory testing of batteries and ultracapacitors
- Professor Emerita, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior
- Land use and transportation interactions
- Attitudes toward travel
- Congestion-response behavior
- Travel time budgets
- Transportation/air quality impacts of transportation demand management measures
- Associate Professor, Economics
- Industrial organization
- Public finance
- Economic regulation
- Environmental policy
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Director, Sustainable Design Academy
- Air Quality - Transportation
- Transportation - Climate Change
- Transportation - Energy - Land Use
- Infrastructure Funding Policy
- Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
- Energy and environmental economics, focusing primarily on questions surrounding the design and implementation of policies targeted towards the electricity sector
- Quantifies the impact of renewable electricity on pollution
- Examines the social costs and benefits of storing electricity
- Evaluates the energy and pollution savings provided by residential energy efficiency investments
- Professor Emerita, Environmental Science and Policy
- Technical and economic assessment of new energy technologies
- Modeling hydrogen infrastructure development
- Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Modeling
- Control and analysis of complex systems
- Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Director, UC Davis Green Transportation Laboratory
- Director Kor-US Transportation Study Program, ITS-Davis
- Director UC Davis Formula Hybrid racing team
- Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells: a. Flow field design, test and modeling to improve performance and stability. b. PEM fuel cell cold start and water management
- Lithium ion battery: a. Test and modeling to investigate temperature effect and thermal management. b. Demonstration of smart electrical energy storage (EES) system using second life EV batteries
- HEV power train design and simulation
- Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
- Environmental applications of Semantic Web technologies
- Associate Professor, Economics
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Computational kinematics and dynamics
- Bio-dynamics of impact trauma
- Computational geometry in design and manufacturing
- Chair, U.S. Transportation Research Board Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies
- Associate Director, Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS)
- Integrative modeling
- Transportation and land use planning
- Environmental policy analysis
- Professor of Architectural and Urban History and Chancellor’s Fellow, UC Davis
- Urbanism
- Design
- Bicycles and cars
- Research Ecological Behaviorist
- Innovative eco-feedback
- Consumer adoption of resource-efficient technologies and behaviors
- Built environment impacts on sustainable behavior
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Director, Scaled Model Aerospace and Research Laboratory (SMARTLAB)
- Co-Director, Transportation Noise Control Center (TNCC)
- Aerospace and Mechanical Systems/Vehicles Structural Dynamics
- Acoustics and Aeroeasticity
- Vibroacoustics
- Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Nanostructured and ultrafine grained materials
- Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Policy
- Regulation and policymaking
- Utility and infrastructure governance
- Food-energy-water nexus
- Collaborative governance
- Investigates the cognitive processes underlying social psychology and behavior
- How people acquire stereotypes and prejudice
- How stereotypes and prejudice affect our perceptions and memories of other people, the extent to which these biases are efficient or even automatic
- How people may or may not control unwanted stereotypes and prejudices
- Transportation ecology, the interactions of transportation systems with ecosystems and human communities
- Indicators of ecosystem performance, and policy issues associated with water pollution
- Impact of sea level rise on integrated planning of shoreline ecosystems and transportation
- Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Co-Director, California Solar Collaborative
- Solar energy
- Colloid and surface science
- Nanotechnology
- Biotechnology
- Electrochemical engineering
- Director, The Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle (PH&EV) Research Center
- Transportation Research Director, The China Center for Energy and Transportation
- Admission Graduate Advisor, Graduate Groups in Transportation Technology, and Policy (TTP)
- Travel behavior, alternative fuel vehicles, travel demand modeling, transportation planning, environmental policy
- Non-motorized transportation
- Creation and use of data in transportation planning process
- Director, Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center
- Research Anthropologist
- The role of travel and movement in the evolution of culture, society and lifestyle
- Director, China Center for Energy and Transportation
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Land, Air, and Water Resources
- Director, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
- Air pollution
- Biomedical engineering
- Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Environmental Design
- Climate change planning for mitigation and adaptation
- Evolution of built landscapes in metropolitan regions
- Theory and practice of sustainable development
- Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
- Natural resource economics
- Environmental economics
- Assistant Project Scientist, UC Davis
- Indirect land use effect of biofuels policy
- Research Scientist, ITS-Davis
- Infrastructure analysis of hydrogen and electricity for vehicle fuels
- Role of transportation alternative fuels and advanced vehicles in reducing energy system greenhouse gas emissions
- Energy system modeling for policy analysis
- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Transportation systems operations
- Traffic flow theory
- Traffic control
- Dynamic traffic assignment
- Intelligent transportation systems
