Hi there, welcome to my website! I am an Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Utah State University. My research interests include mobility in disasters, transportation equity and justice, and unmet travel needs. My research takes an interdisciplinary and human-focused approach to engineering problems, combining qualitative approaches characteristic of the social sciences with quantitative methods like transportation simulation and travel behavior modeling. I also have experience using agent-based modeling, travel demand modeling, transportation health impact modeling, and econometric modeling to explore different aspects of sustainable transportation.
I have a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and M.S. in Applied Economics, both from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I completed my Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Davis, with an emphasis in transportation engineering. Before moving to Utah, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Vermont. In my free time I enjoy hiking with my dog, photography, and foraging for fungi.
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I live and work on land which has served as a site of meeting and exchange among indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Utah State University campuses and centers reside and operate on the territories of the eight tribes of Utah, who have been living, working, and residing on this land from time immemorial.
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