Dr. Kockelman's Graduate STUDENTS 
                                                                                        

PICTURED BELOW - Standing, left to right: Saurabh Kumar, Rui Gao, Takuya Maruyama, Parents of Xiaokun Wang, Xiaokun Wang, Kara Kockelman, Natalia Ruiz-Juri, Steve Boyles, Jared Heiner, Varun Valsaraj, Shadi Hakimi; Seated, left to right: Jason Lemp, Brenda Zhou, Zheng Li (photo includes graduates, friends & family) May 2007

PICTURED ABOVE: Jun Kweon, Issam Srour, Siva Srinivasan, Ling Ji, Yong Zhao, & KK (2000)

PICTURED Above - Seated, left to right: Shadi Hakimi,  Jun Kweon, Dr. Kara Kockelman, Kaethe Podgorski; Standing, left to right: Surabhi Gupta, David Suescun, Shashank Gadda, Pradeep Gulipalli, Jianming Ma, Xiaokun Wang, Michelle Bina, Brenda Zhou, Sukumar Kalmanje, Jamie Reckinger (2005)

Mr. Jason Lemp, MS Candidate

jdl880@mail.utexas.edu

Jason is from St. Louis, MO.  He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia.  During that period, he had two internships in the transportation field.  The first was for the St. Louis County Department of Highways and Traffic working in traffic operations.  In addition, he worked for the Michigan Department of Transportation in the Traffic Signals unit.  Since coming to UT, Jason has been worked on projects involving integrated land use-transport modeling for the purposes of emissions estimations for the greater Austin area, quantifying the external costs of various vehicle types, microsimulation of activity-based travel demand models, and risk and uncertainty in toll project calculations.

Mr. Dan Fagnant, MS Candidate
ECJ  B.124
danfagnant@hotmail.com

Dan graduated from Gonzaga University in 2002 with a degree in computer engineering.  Before enrolling at UT, Dan worked for over four years at the Alaska Department of Transportation.  During this time he worked in the Traffic & Safety Section on highway safety project projects, traffic signal programming an design, signing, striping, workzones, guardrail and barriers, as well as capacity and level of service evaluations.  He also served on the team that developed Alaska's Strategic Highway Safety Plan.  Dan is currently working with several other graduate students on a Sketch Planning tool for the Texas DOT that will allow planners to quickly compare benefits and costs of potential projects and their affects on roadway capacity, travel time, safety, air quality and other relevant metrics.

Sashank received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India. He has enjoyed internships with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and IVRCL Infrastructure Ltd. Presently, Sashank is working on a Southwest Region University Transportation Center project, titled " Vehicle Ownership, Retirement and Use Decisions: Response to Rising Fuel Prices and Implications for Carbon Emissions Forecasts". He is developing (and calibrating) a model of vehicle purchase, use and retirement in order to anticipate the evolution of the nation's passenger-vehicle fleet under new transportation policy scenarios.

Mr. Binny Paul, MS Candidate
ECJ  B.122
binnympaul@gmail.com

Binny is from Kerala, India and received his BE in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with a minor in Financial Management. During his undergraduate studies he did an internship with CRISIL-Infrastructure Advisory and worked on a research project titled "Effect of Travel Time Variability on Route Choice". Currently, Binny is a part of an implementation project involving the use of Gravity based Land Use Model. Binny likes playing soccer, cricket and racquet ball and any outdoor sports.

Mr. Brent Selby, MS Candidate
ECJ B.122

bfselby@mail.utexas.edu

Brent is from southern New Jersey.  He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a minor in International Engineering Studies. During that time he studied at Tokyo International University in Kawagoe, Japan and did research at Penn State University and Carnegie Mellon.  Following his graduation, he worked for several years at ENSCO, Inc., a railroad services contractor based near Washington, DC, testing track and cars in the US and Canada.  At UT, Brent is working on a project to develop models for dynamic discrete response data with spatial autocorrelation.

Yiyi is from Beijing, China. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degree in civil engineering in the Beijing University of Technology. Her research in Beijing focused on transportation safety. During that period, she also served two intern posts, one in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the other in the Road Safety Engineering Research Center affiliated with the Ministry of Communication. In 2008, Yiyi exchanged for nine months as a research assistant in the transportation unit of INSIA, Polytechnic University of Madrid. She is now working on a NSF project, under the title 'Models for Dynamic Discrete Response Data with Spatial Autocorrelation: Specification and Estimation'. For leisure, Yiyi enjoys reading, swimming and socializing with friends and families.

Charlotte is investigating greenhouse gas consumption as a function of various travel and other behaviors, and generating a technical paper on how Americans are likely to respond to carbon caps. She also has geocoded our car-share survey data (for person & workplace records), revamped the RUBMRIO webpages, and tested the RUBMRIO software.  Charlotte is very active with UT's student chapters of Engineers for a Sustainable World and Society of Women Engineers.