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Transportation Researchers

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David Simchi-Levi

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Operations Research, Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

Sanjay Sarma

Vice President for Open Learning (2013-2022) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:

Automotive Technologies, Batteries, Digital Learning, Design, Manufacturing

Kathleen Thelen

Ford Professor of Political Science

Research Interests:

Political Economy, Historical Institutionalism, Labor Politics, Social Policy, Advanced Industrial Countries

Matthias Winkenbach

Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab; Director of the MIT CAVE Lab

Research Interests:

Multi-tier Distribution Network Design, Urban Logistics, Last-Mile Delivery, Urban Freight Policy, Data Analytics and Visualization

Gioele Zardini

Assistant Professor, MIT

Research Interests:

Sociotechnical Systems, Compositionality in Engineering, Applied Category Theory, Decision and Control, Optimization, and Game Theory

Don Sadoway

John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry

Research Interests:

Electrochemistry, Electrochemical extraction & sensors, recycling of metals, lithium solid-polymer-electrolyte batteries

Tobias Salz

Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics

Research Interests:

Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Chintan Vaishnav

Senior Lecturer, Operations Management

Research Interests:

Information Technology and Systems, Development, and Public Policy

Nigel Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests:

Public Transportation, Transport System Design, New Transportation Systems

Jinhua Zhao

Professor of Cities and Transportation, Founder and Faculty Director, MIT Mobility Initiative

Research Interests:

Urban Transportation, Travel Behavior, Public Transit, Automated and Shared Mobility, Machine Learning

Fred Salvucci

Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate

Research Interests:

Infrastructure, Urban Transportation, Public Transportation, Institutional Development in Decision-Making.

Yossi Sheffi

Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Research Interests:

Systems Optimization, Risk Analysis, Supply Chain Management

Andrew Whittle

Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civi & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

Geomechanics and geomaterials,
urban infrastructure,
environmental sensing

Sarah Williams

Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning

Research Interests:

Semi-formal Transportation, Urban Information, Technology, Media Design, Data Action, Urban Design, Data Visualization and Privacy

Siqi Zheng

Samuel Tak Lee Professor, CRE, DUSP and SA+P

Research Interests:

Urban and Environmental Economics and Policy; Environmental Sustainability

Hashim Sarkis

Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning

Research Interests:

Architecture, Planning

Jessika Trancik

Professor of Data, Systems, and Society

Research Interests:

Infrastructure and decarbonization,
Low-carbon transport,
Vehicle electrification,
Storage Technologies,
Environmental Analysis,
Energy Technologies

Cathy Wu

Gilbert W. Winslow (1937) Career Development Assistant Professor

Research Interests:

Machine Learning, Control Theory, Multi-agent Systems, Implications of AI & Automation

Chris Zegras

Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning

Research Interests:

Environmental Planning and Management, Healthy Communities and Active Living, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Economics