(This page is being updated regularly. If you’d like to contribute your thoughts and memories about Dr. Deja Jackson, please send them to iaviles@ce.ufl.edu.) Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are mourning the loss of Dr. Deja Jackson, a former graduate… Read More
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Alumni Spotlight: Shirin Noei, Ph.D.
Dr. Shirin Noei’s interest in transportation engineering grew while working on her master’s degree in construction management at Florida International University through a project related to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). As she describes it, this experience solidified her belief that… Read More
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Student Spotlight – Leonida Kibet
Doctoral student Leonida Kibet’s interest in transportation grew as she worked on her bachelor’s degree in Kenya. She notes that over the last decade Kenya has experienced massive growth in the transportation sector which has ultimately been marked by technological… Read More
Student Spotlight: Asean Davis
Asean Davis is a charismatic second-year Ph.D. student. Academically, Asean likes to focus his energies looking at the issues surrounding autonomous freight transportation. Specifically, he is interested in how driving on a road with autonomous freight affects the behavior of… Read More
Student Highlight: Ala Alobeidyeen
Our students are an important part of the UF Transportation Institute and we’re excited to be able to feature some of them in our newsletter. This month we’re featuring Ph.D. student, Ala Alobeidyeen. Ala received her master’s degree in transportation… Read More
Student Spotlight: Fabio Sasahara
Our students are an important part of the UF Transportation Institute and we’re excited to be able to feature some of them in our newsletter. This month we’re featuring Ph.D. student, Fabio Sasahara. Fabio came to the UFTI after working… Read More
Student Spotlight
Amy Cavaretta, M.S. (UF 2013), UF Department of Urban & Regional Planning As a little girl, Amy Cavaretta loved to draw and color on her father’s engineering blueprints, imagining communities neatly arranged with roads and sidewalks, attractive homes and buildings,… Read More