Eugene Sit was born and raised in New York City, which may have helped instill in him a wide-ranging curiosity about all things urban. At Columbia University, where he was a C. Prescott Davis Scholar, he supplemented his Civil Engineering courses with ones on transportation and urban development, architecture and planning, politics, and anthropology. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with a departmental citation in 2002. Soon after graduation, Eugene found himself in the employ of Vollmer Associates, LLP as a Junior Engineer in the transportation department. There, he contributed analysis and field observation to a number of projects, including the reconstruction of Route 9A in Lower Manhattan by the New York State Department of Transportation. Eugene is currently pursuing his Master's at the City College of New York with the aid of a scholarship from the Advanced Institute for Transportation Education (AITE). He expects to complete the degree in 2007. For his thesis, he is working with Professor Cynthia Chen under the auspices of the Region 2 University Transportation Research Center. The project entails performing sensitivity testing on the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council's Best Practice Model, and represents one of the first uses of this model in academic research. It is hoped that this work will have implications for future regional travel demand models, both in their design and their application to policy analysis.