Student Spotlights

Luz Gabriela Rivera Pérez is a student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez studying civil engineering. Luz decided to focus on transportation engineering for her master’s degree after falling in the love with the topic during her undergraduate career. Luz has worked on NICR projects since 2020, and she has worked alongside faculty members…

Austin Sibu is in his fifth year at Texas A&M University (TAMU), earning BS and MS degrees in statistics in a combined degree program. Previously, Austin worked as a research assistant at the EconomicStatecraft Program at the Bush School and helped build a COVID-19 dashboard in a joint project between the statistics and public health…

Marianna Defendini-Torres is a research assistant for the NICR project “Predicting Travel and Congestion in a Post-Pandemic America” from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She is a senior studying economics with minors in comparative literature and international relations. As part of her participation in NICR, Marianna has worked on the concept and design…

Ang Li is a Ph.D. candidate studying transportation engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of interest include unmanned aircraft systems, traffic management, regional air traffic management, urban parcel delivery, mechanism design, operations research, and machine learning. Ang initially became interested in transportation because of its importance in the disaster recovery plan…

Meiqing Li is a PhD candidate studying city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her focus areas include sustainable transportation, travel behavio r modeling, and urban spatial analytics, and her research explores the intersection between sustainable transportation, travel behavior, and the built environment in the United States and Asia. Working with professor…

Hi, my name is Wesley Darling, and I am an entering PhD student in transportation engineering at the. I just completed my MS in transportation at Berkeley in the spring of 2021. Before Berkeley, I studied civil engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to my time at UTK, I studied business administration (with…

Taylor Dinehart has always been interested in public service and in improving the lives of others. After serving in the military, she earned a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and is now pursuing a Master in Public Health as USF. Her goal is to complete her degree and begin a career at the intersection…