CSUTC Researchers

Professor

CSU Bakersfield, Department of Engineering Science

 

Research Areas: Building Systems Engineering, Urban Climate, Urban Heat Island Effect.

 

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San José State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Active Transportation, Personal Transportation Devices/Micro-Mobility, Regulations, Survey Design, Transportation Funding, Transportation History, Travel Behavior.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Fresno, Civil and Geomatics Engineering

 

Research Areas: Photogrammetry, Sensor modeling and calibration, UAV, Remote sensing.

 

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CSUTC Research in Progress:

• Roadside Asset Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Point Cloud
• Traffic Sign Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Point Cloud
• Impervious Surfaces from High Resolution Aerial Imagery: Cities in Fresno County

Assistant Professor

San Diego State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Areas: Activity Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Construction Engineering, Data-Driven Simulation, Human-Machine Teaming.

 

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Associate Professor

San José State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Climate Change, Climate Action Planning, Emissions Mitigation, Transportation Planning, Mobility Equity, Climate Justice, Climate Resilience, Autonomous Vehicles.

 

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CSUTC Research in Progress:

• Consistent VMT Mapping and Modeling in California: How Can We Better Assess the VMT Impacts of State and Local Transportation Projects?

Professor

Cal Poly Pomona, Civil Engineering Department & Pavement Recycling and Reclaiming Center

 

Research Areas: Construction Materials, Infrastructure Management, Sustainability.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Long Beach, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Wastewater Treatment and Resources Recovery (Renewable Energy and Nutrients).

 

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Assistant Professor

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Areas: Environmental Nanotechnology.

 

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• Evaluation of Nanoclay Additives for Improving Resistance to Moisture Damage in Hot Mix, January 2023

Assistant Professor

CSU Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Smart Transportation, Virtual Design and Construction, Visual Data Analytics.

 

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• Assessing the Perceived Safety of Cyclists with Virtual Reality
• Assessing Perceived Safety of Non-Motorized Travel with Immersive Virtual Reality

Research Associate

San José State University, Mineta Transportation Institute

 

Research Areas: Public Sector Transportation Project Management.

 

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• Preconstruction Support Cost Hours Estimating on Caltrans Pavement Rehabilitation Projects, May 2023

Assistant Professor

CSU Long Beach, CECEM

 

Research Areas: Earthquake Engineering, Base isolation, Structural Engineering.

 

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• Investigation of Biohealing Application for Micro-Size Fractures of Concrete Elements

Assistant Professor

CSU Fresno, Construction Management/Lyles College of Engineering

 

Research Areas: Infrastructures, Alternative Project Delivery Methods, Decision Making, Risk Management.

 

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• Exploring Performance-Based Contracts: a Good Option to Address Long-Term Road Maintenance in California?

Associate Professor

CSU Long Beach, Civil Engineering and Construction Management

 

Research Areas: Transportation Planning, Policy and Engineering.

 

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Director and Professor

CSU Chico, California Pavement Preservation Center, Department of Civil Engineering

 

Research Areas: Pavement Management System, Pavement Materials, Pavement Preservation, Roadway Design.

 

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Professor 

Cal Poly Pomona, Department of Civil Engineering 

 

Research Areas: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Traffic Safety and Operation, Gas Emission, Public Health.

 

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Assistant Professor

San José State University, Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Areas: Safety of Transportation, Statistical Methods, Policy Evaluation, Urban Air Mobility, UAVs, Education, Survey Design.

 

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Executive Director of the Barbara and William Leonard Transportation Center (LTC); Professor of Public Administration

California State University, San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center

 

Research Areas: Social equity, sustainability, social networks and democracy in different policy fora, such as transportation, environment, and education. Additional research interests include: understanding individual’s perceptions of quality of life, in order to improve public sector decision making and resource allocation; comparative local governance and federalism in the United States and Mexico; environmental policy at the federal, state, and local level; environmental behavior of residents; and issues with sustainability, democracy, and public goods.

 

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• https://transweb.sjsu.edu/csutc/research/utc/Electrification-Medium-and-Heavy-Duty-Vehicles-Inland-Empire

Professor

San José State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science

 

Research Areas: Climate Change Mitigation, Education.

 

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Assistant Professor

San José State University, Department of Aviation and Technology

 

Research Areas: Accident Analysis and Prevention, Risk Analysis and Management, Safety Analytics, Statistical Modeling Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Application.

 

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Professor

CSU Fresno, Geography and City & Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Transportation and Housing.

 

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Assistant Professor and Director of the Inst. for Metropolitan Studies

San José State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Urban Planning, Urban Design, Development, Informal Urbanism, Neighborhood Identity.

 

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Professor

San José State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

Research Areas: Automated Transit Networks (ATN), Mechatronics, Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), Solar Power.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering

 

Research Areas: Agricultural Transportation, Freight Railroads, High Speed Rail.

 

• Examining the Effects of Precision Scheduled Railroading on Intercity Passenger and High-Speed Rail Service, March 2022

 

Professor

CSU Fresno, Literacy, Early, Bilingual & Special Education/ Fresno State Transportation Institute

 

Research Areas: K-12 Sustainability Education, Youth Empowerment & Civic Action.

 

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Program Manager 

CSU Chico, California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2 Center)

 

Research Areas: Pavement Preservation, Sustainability, Workforce Development.

 

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Associate Professor

San Diego State University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Research Areas: Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits, Intelligent Vehicles, VLSI Testing and Security.

 

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Assistant Professor

San Diego State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence Applications, Big Data Analytics, Connected and Automated Vvehicles, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Traffic Safety.

 

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Associate Dean

California State University, Northridge, College of Engineering and Computer Science

 

Research Areas: Inteligent Infrastructure Design, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Planning.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Dominguez Hills, Information Systems and Operations Management.

 

Research Areas: Global Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Strategy, Global Transportation Strategy, Supply Chain Finance.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Long Beach, Human Development/College of Liberal Arts

 

Research Areas: Identity Development, STEM, Persistence.

 

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Professor

Cal Poly Pomona, Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: GIS Application in Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Land Use and Transportation Relationship, Active Living, Geo-spatial Visualization and Simulation, Spatial Statistics, Big Data and Data Analytics.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Long Beach, Department of Economics

 

Research Areas: Traffic Congestion, Transportation Economics, Urban Economics.

 

• Congestion Costs and Scheduling Preferences of Car Commuters in California: Estimates Using Big Data, March 2022

 

Professor

CSU Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Construction Management, Infrastructure Management, Sustainability in Built Environment.

 

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Professor

Cal State Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Composite materials, Micromechanics, Finite element method, Damage mechanics, Damage assessment of structures, Nonlinear Structural Dynamic Analysis.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Research Areas: Applied Machine Learning, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Secure Communications, Underwater Acoustic Communications, Visible Light Communications and Networking, Wireless Communications.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Public Health

 

Research Areas: Exposure Sciences, Spatial Analysis, Traffic-Related Air Pollution.

 

• Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Roadside Transportation-Related Air Quality (StarTraq 2021): A Characterization of Bike Trails and Highways in the Fresno/Clovis Area, November 2022
• Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Roadside Transportation Related Air Quality (STARTRAQ) and Neighborhood Characterization, August 2021

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Associate Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering

 

Research Areas: Pavement, Design, Materials.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Long Beach, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Areas: Control theory, Robotics, Networked systems.

 

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Associate Professor

San Diego State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Areas: Connected/Automated Vehicles, Driver Behavior Modeling, Evacuation Modeling, Traffic Safety.

 

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Professor

San José State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Growth Management/Smart Growth, Municipal Finance, Spatial Econometrics, Transportation and Land Use, Travel Behavior, Transportation Economics and Finance.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Los Angeles, Department of Civil Engineering

 

Research Areas: Applied AI, Infrastructure Materials, Resilient and Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure.

 

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Professor

San Jose State University, Department of Communication Studies

 

Research Areas: Future of Higher Education, Career Technical Education, Queer Feminist Anti-Racist Ethics.

 

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Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for Economic Education and Research

CSU Bakersfield, Department of Economics

 

Research Areas: Energy, Environmental Economics, Regional Economics.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Long Beach, Chemical Engineering

 

Research Areas: Additive Manufacturing, Powder Technology, Multiphase Flow, Surface Science, Process Design & Scale-up.

 

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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

CSU Long Beach, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Infrastructure Deterioration; Climate Adaptation; Sustainable Built Environment.

 

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Deputy Executive Director

San José State University, Mineta Transportation Institute

 

Research Areas: Active Transportation, Pro-Environmental Behavior, Transportation Finance, Transportation Policy.

 

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Executive Director

CSU Long Beach, The Center for International Trade and Transportation

 

Research Areas: Intermodal Logistics, Transport Policy, Transportation Workforce Development.

 

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Associate Professor

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Department of Civil Engineering

 

Research Areas: Data Analytics, Microsimulation, Service-Learning, Traffic Safety and Operations, Transportation Engineering, Transportation Network Company Impacts.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Computer Science

 

Research Areas: Algorithms, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Social Network Analysis.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Los Angeles, Department of Computer Science

 

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Traffic Management, Traffic Risk Analysis/prediction, Digital Twin, Safety Analytics, Predictive Analytics.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Dominguez Hills, Department of Public Administration/South Bay Economics Institute

 

Research Areas: Disaster Resilience, Telework, Regional Economies, Supply Chains.

 

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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies

CSU Long Beach, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Biomedical Engineering

 

Research Areas: Environmental Health, Ambient and Exhaust Pollution Control, Renewable Energy, Turbulence and Mixing, Industrial Aerodynamics.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Earthquake Damage Detection in Buildings and Bridges, Structural Identification and Health Monitoring.

 

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Director of Research and Workforce Development

CSU Long Beach, Center for International Trade and Transportation

 

Research Areas: Rural Transportation, Tribal Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Workforce Development, Organizational Excellence, Talent Pipelines, Civic Markets.

 

CSUTC Publications:

• Trade and Transportation Talent Pipeline Blueprints: Building University-Industry Talent Pipelines in Colleges of Continuing and Professional Education, February 2023
• Southern California Regional Transit Training Consortium: Skills Gap & Needs Assessment, June 2020

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Professor & Director

CSU Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, National Center for Transportation, Green Technology, and Education

 

Research Areas: Concrete, Aggregate, Asphalt, Highway Material, Pavement, Sustainability.

 

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Professor

CSU Stanislaus, Accounting and Finance

 

Research Areas: Applied Econometrics Commuting.

 

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Assistant Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Research Areas: Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Network Security.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Fresno, Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering

 

Research Areas: Infrastructure, Resilience, Structural Engineering, Structural Materials, Structural Mechanics, Sustainability.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Long Beach, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management

 

Research Areas: Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Structures and Their Protective Systems, Probabilistic Performance-Based Seismic Design and Evaluation of Buildings and Bridges, Seismic Performance Assessment and Resilience Evaluation of Civil Infrastructure.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Fresno, Curriculum & Instruction

 

Research Areas: Agile, Career and Technical Education, Hope.

 

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• Fresno County Afterschool Transportation Education

Associate Professor

CSU Fresno, Geography and City and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Natural Hazard Mitigation, Land-Use and Transportation Modeling, GIS and Spatial Statistics, Optimization.

 

• A Gravity Model Integrating Land-Use and Transportation Policies for Sustainable Development: Case Study of Fresno, California, April 2023
• Investigating the Resilience of Accessibility to Emergency and Lifesaving Facilities under Natural Hazards, May 2022
• Do Multi-Use Path Accessibility and the Clustering Effect Play a Role in Residents’ Choice of Walking and Cycling?, June 2021
• A Multi-Objective Optimization Model to Minimize the Gap in Accessibility to Multi- Use Paths While Maximizing the Economic Efficiency of Active Transportation Investments for Fresno, California, June 2020
• Developing a Fair Accessibility Framework through Green (Non-Auto) Transportation Modes for Fresno, California, August 2019

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Research Fellow

CSU San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center

 

Research Areas: Transportation planning, Electrification, Sustainability and Equity.

 

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Associate Professor

CSU Stanislaus, Department of Management, Operations, and Marketing

 

Research Areas: Operations Management, Supply Chain Management.

 

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Assistant Professor

California State University Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering

 

Research Areas: Modeling, Optimization, Control, Machine Learning.

 

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• Electrical Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Design and Operations, July 2023

CSUTC Research in Progress:

• Battery Management System Development for Electric Vehicles and Fast Charging Infrastructure Improvement
• Fuel Cell System Development for Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Assistant Professor

San José State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Areas: Active Mobility, Built Environment, Healthy Cities, Transportation Planning, Mobility Equity, Spatial Analysis and Visualization.

 

CSUTC Publications:

• A Bike System for All Silicon Valley: Equity Assessment of Bike Infrastructure in San José, CA, October 2023

Assistant Professor

CSU Chico, Department of Civil Engineering

 

Research Areas: Asphalt Material and Pavement, Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure, Numerical Modeling (CFD, DEM, FEM), Pavement Preservation, Recycling.

 

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Associate Professor

Cal Poly Pomona, Department of Civil Engineering

 

Research Areas: Travel Demand Modeling, Active Transportation and Built Environment, Traffic Safety.

 

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CSUTC Research in Progress:

• Understanding Mobility-Related Challenges for AAPI Older Adults