Siwei Hu, a 3rd year Transportation System Engineering PhD student co-advised by Prof. Hyland and Prof. Jay, has been chosen to receive the 2022 ACSE Transportation Vision Scholarship. The award was presented at the ASCE-OC History and Heritage Night on November 3rd, 2022.
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Md Rabiul Islam, PhD candidate of Transportation Science at ITS Irvine, has been selected to receive Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Award from UCI Graduate Division. This fellowship is one of UC Irvine’s most distinguished and is intended to release the student from non-academic obligations till the completion of the degree.
Farzana Khatun, a 5th year PhD candidate of Transportation Science at ITS Irvine, has been chosen to receive the 2021 American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) scholarship. This scholarship’s mission is to encourage students/individuals to pursue the transit field as their career. The award will be presented to the APTA’s (American Public Transportation Association) TRANSform and EXPO, November 7 – 10, 2021, in Orlando, FL. Under Professor Jean-Daniel Saphores, Farzana is working on projects that answer three crucial issues of current public transportation: 1) The impact of emerging technology and new mobility services (like Uber and Lyft) on transit ridership; 2) the effect of private car-oriented policies (like Assembly Bill 60) on transit ridership, and 3) the effect of an unprecedented situation (like the COVID19 pandemic) on transit ridership. Farzana’s research findings are informed by econometric models.
Navjyoth Sarma JS and Jiarui Tao, PhD students at ITS Irvine, have been selected to receive 2020/21 Gordon Hein scholarship from UCI Graduate Division. The Gordon Hein Scholarship provides financial support to students who demonstrate outstanding past academic achievement as well as future promise, have financial need, and are blind or legally blind.
The team formed by Rezwana Rafiq (researcher at ITS Irvine), Tanjeeb Ahmed (ITS Irvine graduate student), and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin (Assistant Professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City) won the 3rd place in the COVID-19 Grand Challenge hosted by C3.ai. The team will be awarded $12,500 for developing “meaningful data-driven insights that will help the global community understand and mitigate not only the spread of COVID-19, but also prepare the world to fight future pandemics, improve the medical community’s ability to respond, and help policymakers navigate decisions about COVID-19.”
Their project “Structural Modeling of COVID Spread in Relation to Human Mobility”, “models causal relationships between human mobility indicators (trips, distance traveled, staying at home, and social distancing) and COVID-19 spread to inform how policymakers should take action.”
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Youngeun Bae, a 5th year PhD candidate of Transportation System Engineering at ITS Irvine, has been selected to receive 2020/21 Henry Samueli Fellowship Award from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine. This award is in recognition of her achievements as an outstanding Civil & Environmental Engineering graduate student who shows exceptional potential for success.
Brian Casebolt, Siwei Hu, and De’Von Jennings, PhD students of Traffic System Engineering at ITS Irvine, have been selected to receive Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DETI) Summer Fellowship. “DTEI Graduate Fellows will work with faculty to develop high quality remote courses for the 2020-21 academic year. Fellows will receive training from DTEI in fundamentals of pedagogy and remote learning as well as specific tools that may be useful in creating a high quality remote learning experience.”
Naila Sharmeen, a 4th year PhD candidate of Transportation Science at ITS Irvine, has been selected to receive Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Award from UCI Graduate Division. This fellowship is one of UC Irvine’s most distinguished and is intended to release the student from non-academic obligations till the completion of the degree.
De’Von Jennings have been selected as the recipient of the ASCE LA YMF Dr. Bill Goodin Outstanding Student Mentor Scholarship and its $1000 award. He accepted the award at the Student Night Job Fair on Friday, February 7th at the Taglyan Complex.
For the second time in a row, De’Von Jennings received the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. The program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry.
From its initial support of graduate research fellowships in 1983, to the current program’s inception in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, the DDETFP has awarded over $50 million to the brightest minds in the transportation industry. From this investment, fellows have pushed for innovative change in multimodal areas from highway infrastructure to aviation to maritime, making the industry more effective and efficient. Fellows pursue careers in academia, private industry, and public service, becoming leaders across the nation.