Elizabeth Hewitt is an urban planner and social scientist, and her work rests at the intersection of technology and policy to explore human processes that impact energy and resilience in buildings and cities. She focuses most often on urban multifamily or commercial buildings. She conducts research on occupant behavior in buildings; decision making for resilience; occupant interactions with smart building technologies; and organizational culture for energy and resilience.

Dr. Jingqin Gao is a dedicated professional with over 10 years of experience in transportation planning and engineering. She has served as principal investigator (PI), co-PI, and lead researcher for multiple projects funded by the U.S. DOT, NASEM, AASHTO, NYSDOT, NYCDOT, and NJDOT. As the Assistant Director of Research at C2SMART University Transportation Center funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). Dr. Gao assisted the center to secure a $15M grant, including $10M from U.S.

Yiqiao Li is an assistant professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY). Prior to joining CCNY, she worked as this an Assistant Project Scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California Irvine (ITS- Irvine). 

Dr. Katehakis is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He holds a courtesy appointment in Rutgers' New Brunswick Department of Mathematics Graduate Faculty, and he is a member of DIMACS the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, he is a Primary Investigator of CDDA the Rutgers Center for Dynamic Data Analytics, and a member of RUTCOR, the Rutgers Center for Operations Research.

Dr. Michel Boufadel is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Natural Resources at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (a top 100 University in the USA). Dr. Boufadel served recently on five National Academies committees in relation to oil spills (2012-2019). He also served on a committee by the Royal Society of Canada on “The impact and behavior of oil in aquatic environments”, and served on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board on natural gas extraction from shale formations (2011-2012).

Dr. Karimpour is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. Prior to this role, he was the Manager and Assistant Research Profesor at the Center for Applied Transportation Science at the University of Arizona. He graduated from The University of Arizona with a Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering. His research interests are Traffic Operation and Safety, Traffic signal Optimization, Data Analytics, Public Transportation, and Smart Cities Transportation.

Dr. Alain Kornhauser is Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He studied Aerospace Engineering at Penn State earning a BS and MS and Princeton, earning a PhD. In 1971 he joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty at U of Minnesota where he applied automation, network analysis and optimal control to the design of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Systems. He returned to Princeton in 1972 extending his pivotal work to more conventional forms of transportation. In 1979 he founded ALK Technologies, Inc.