Shakiba Naderian
Shakiba Naderian is a PhD student (Autumn 202) at the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department of the University of Washington. She studied her Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering (2015-2019) and her Master’s in Transportation Engineering (2019-2022) at University of Tehran. Her research interests are Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Transportation Network Optimization, and Traffic Operations of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Dan McCabe
Dan McCabe joined the iUTS Lab as an MS student in Fall 2019. Prior to enrolling at UW, he graduated with a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 2017. Dan then worked as a Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he contributed to optimization-related projects with applications in national security and power systems. He is interested in utilizing systems engineering and optimization to enable more efficient, sustainable, and equitable transportation systems. Off campus, he enjoys road and mountain biking, running, snowboarding, and just about anything else outdoors.
Soheil Keshavarz
Soheil Keshavarz obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2022 from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran), majoring in Civil Engineering and minoring in Computer Sciences. During his undergraduate study, he mainly focused on traffic safety and crash-counting models. He then joined iUTS Lab as a Transportation Engineering MS student in Fall 2022. Soheil’s research interests in transportation lie in active transportation, equity, and, mostly, AI and emerging technologies. In his free time, he enjoys soccer, tennis, jogging, gym, rock and traditional Persian music, and podcasts.
Chris Ritthikarn
Chris Ritthikarn is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) and joined the iUTS lab in Winter 2024. His research interests lie at the intersection of optimization tools and their applications in transportation networks, such as the EV station allocation problem. Before enrolling at UW, he earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. degree in Management Science and Engineering from Columbia University. Chris then worked as a research intern at MPI, where he focused on combinatorial optimization and matching problems. In his free time, he enjoys soccer, Formula One, as well as history and cooking.
Yiran
Yiran Zhang is a PhD student (autumn 2018) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Washington. Her research interest focuses on traffic safety and exploration of drones application in transportation field such as communication hub, structural damage assessment, etc., for transportation evacuation. She also has experience in traffic simulation by Vissim and GUI (Guide User Interface) design. Yiran has a bachelor's degree in Railway Engineering (2012) from Southwest Jiaotong University and a master’s degree at CEE at UW. Before starting her doctorate, she worked as an intern for State Safety Oversight at Washington DOT. Aside from academic career, she has interest on art history, playing chinese dulcimer and learning the keyboard.
Ohay Angah
Ohay Angah holds a Hydraulic Engineering Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 2015 and a Transportation Engineering Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Washington (UW) in 2021. She worked as an engineer in Department of Hazard Mitigation at Sinotech, Taiwan in 2015-2017. In the following two years, she worked as a research assistant at Professor Albert Chen’s lab and NTUCE-NCREE AI Research Center, participating in computer-aided engineering projects through deep learning and image processing methods. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in CEE at UW. Her research topics include transportation simulation model development, automated driving and controls, object detecting and tracking.
Xin Wang
Xin Wang is a First-Year Ph.D. student who joined the iTUS lab in 2022. His research interests lie primarily in mathematical optimization and the applications in the security of transportation networks. Xin Wang holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Central South University. He also earned a master's degree in Applied Statistics from Renmin University of China. Besides work, playing badminton is one of his hobbies in daily life.
Zepu Wang
Zepu Wang is a first-year Ph.D. student in the iTUS lab. His research interests include time series analysis and spatiotemporal data mining, with a particular focus on machine learning and deep learning. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Data Science from Duke Kunshan University in China and a Master’s degree in Data Science from the University of Pennsylvania. In his free time, he enjoys playing board games, working out, swimming, and hiking.