Professor

Eric Avila

Eric Avila is a professor of Chicana/o studies and history at UCLA.

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.

Assistant Professor

Genevieve Carpio

Genevieve Carpio is an assistant professor of Chicana/o studies at UCLA.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Katherine Chen

Katherine Chen, MD, is an internal medicine physician, a postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program, and a PhD student in Health Policy & Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Research Professor

William A. V. Clark

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

Professor

Dana Cuff

Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture/urban design and urban planning at UCLA.

Research Consultant

Mark Garrett

Mark Garrett is a research consultant at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.

Assistant Professor

Kian Goh

Kian Goh is an assistant professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Emeritus

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson is a professor emeritus of environmental health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Professor

Michael Jerrett

Michael Jerrett is a professor of environmental health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Professor Emeritus

Robin Liggett

Robin Liggett is a professor emeritus of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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.

Associate Professor

Michael Manville

Michael Manville is an associate professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Manville is the lead for the Traffic research program.

Deputy Director

Juan Matute

Juan Matute is the deputy director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.

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.

Associate Professor

Paavo Monkkonen

Paavo Monkkonen is an associate professor of urban planning and public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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.

Housing Initiative Project Manager

Shane Phillips

Shane Phillips is the Lewis Center Housing Initiative Project Manager in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Lecturer

Mohja Rhoads

Mohja Rhoads is a lecturer of transportation geography in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Distinguished Research Professor

Donald Shoup

Donald Shoup is a distinguished research professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Shoup is the lead of the Parking research program.

Lecturer

Ryan Snyder

Ryan Snyder is a lecturer in bicycle and pedestrian planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Cristina Tirado

Cristina Tirado is an adjunct associate professor of public health in the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability.

Associate Professor

Ondine von Ehrenstein

Ondine von Ehrenstein is an associate professor of community health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Research Program Manager

Jacob Wasserman

Jacob Wasserman studies and manages research on public transit, the intersection of transportation and other social issues, and a range of mobility questions at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. With a background in transportation equity, finance, and demand management, Wasserman serves as the lead scholar of ITS’ Public Transit research program.

Prior to joining ITS, he worked for the Cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Haven on capital planning, vehicle miles traveled development review thresholds, budget process improvements, and active transportation. He also served as a Transportation Justice Fellow for BART Director Lateefah Simon, coordinating passage of the system’s Safe Transit sanctuary policy.

Wasserman has a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, with concentrations in transportation policy and planning and in community economic development and housing, in the housing stream. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Yale.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Arthur Winer

Arthur Winer is a distinguished professor emeritus of environmental health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Spatial Data Science Librarian.

Zhiyuan Yao

Zhiyuan Yao is a spatial data science librarian.

Professor

Yifang Zhu

Yifang Zhu is a professor of environmental health studies in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.