Assistant Professor

Tierra Bills

Tierra Bills is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Public Policy at UCLA. Dr. Bills is a thinker, teacher, and researcher committed to advancing equity is transportation systems and policies. She has over 10 years of experience developing and advancing travel demand and equity analysis methods. She holds a B.S in Civil Engineering Technology from Florida A&M University, and M.S and PhD degrees in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor and Director

Evelyn Blumenberg

Evelyn Blumenberg is the director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Blumenberg is the lead for the Access to Opportunities research program.

Deputy Director

Madeline Brozen

Madeline Brozen is the deputy director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Deputy Director

Colleen Callahan

Colleen Callahan is the deputy director of UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

Research Professor

William A. V. Clark

William A. V. Clark is a research professor of geography at UCLA.

Professor

Suk-Young Kim

Suk-Young Kim is a professor of theater, film, and television in the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television.

Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is the Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, a Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and a core faculty of the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative.

Professor Loukaitou-Sideris is the lead for the Transportation & Communities research program.

Equity Research Manager

Adonia Lugo

Cultural anthropologist Adonia E. Lugo was born and raised in traditional and unceded Acjachemen territory and now lives and works in traditional and unceded Tongva territory in Los Angeles. Adonia began investigating transportation, race, and space during her graduate studies at UC Irvine, when she co-created the Los Angeles open street event CicLAvia and the organization today known as People for Mobility Justice. Since receiving her doctorate in 2013, Adonia has applied her research on “human infrastructure” in sustainable mobility advocacy and helped to define the concept of “mobility justice.” Adonia is Equity Research Manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, a core organizer of The Untokening, and a recent appointee to the California Transportation Commission.

Professor

Adam Millard-Ball

Adam Millard-Ball is a professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is on sabbatical during the 2023-24 academic year.

Professor Millard-Ball is the lead for the Environment research program.

Professor and Director

Paul Ong

Paul Ong is a professor of urban planning and director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Assistant Professor

Regan Patterson

Regan Patterson is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Gregory Pierce

Gregory Pierce is an adjunct assistant professor of urban planning.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Andrew Schouten

Andrew Schouten is a post-doctoral researcher at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.

Professor and Director

Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor is director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and a professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Taylor is the lead for the Transportation Finance research program.

Spatial Data Science Librarian.

Zhiyuan Yao

Zhiyuan Yao is a spatial data science librarian.