Li Chen is a Transportation Program doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the University Transportation Research Center Region II, City College of New York. She holds a B.S. in Transportation Management and a M.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. She also holds a M.S. in Transportation Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama.

Li was awarded the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council’s (NYMTC) prestigious September 11th Memorial Program Award in September 2005. She is an intern in the Traffic Planning Division of the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) and is working on the West Side Manhattan Transportation and Traffic Study. Li’s goal is to become an expert and educator in transportation policy and planning.