ITS Students Win Most Innovative Design Award at 2025 CITRIS Aviation Prize Competition

Congratulations to Berkeley CEE students Rishi Kumar Srinivasan (M.Eng ’25), Andrew Park (M.S. ’25), Atiila Kharobo (M.S. ’25, continuing Ph.D.), Jorge Duarte (M.S. ’25, continuing Ph.D.), and Jordan Kam (continuing B.S.), who received the Atech Award for Most Innovative Design for Air Mobility at the 2025 CITRIS Aviation Prize competition!

ASCE Spring Banquet Honored CEE Undergraduates with Scholarships and Awards

On April 28, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) hosted a banquet celebrating the end of the semester. The department awarded undergraduate student awards to exemplary students, recognizing their outstanding accomplishments in the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering through coursework and extracurricular activities.

Congratulations to Scott Moura and Marta Gonzalez on New Leadership Roles at ITS Berkeley and PATH

Congratulations to CEE Professors Scott Moura and Marta Gonzalez, who have been appointed to key leadership roles within the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) for the 2025–26 academic year! Professor Moura will serve as Acting Director of ITS Berkeley, while Professor Gonzalez will serve as Acting Faculty Director of California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), a research center within ITS.

CED Awards Faculty Seed Grant to Marta Gonzalez for Wildfire Risk Mitigation Project

Congratulations to CEE Professor Marta C. Gonzalez, who—along with City & Regional Planning Assistant Professor Maryam Hosseini—has been awarded a Lau Grant for Just Climate Futures to support her research on wildfire risk mitigation. The project, titled "Multiscale Mitigation of Wildfire Risk Vulnerabilities in the Natural and Built Environments," brings together tools from spatial computing, AI, and urban planning to address one of California's most pressing climate-related threats.

Ziad Yassine

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The Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) celebrated the research achievements of graduating doctoral candidates at a special Ph.D. Transportation Seminar on Friday, May 2. The event featured presentations from four scholars whose work spans transportation engineering, planning, climate resilience, automation, and mobility equity.

Ph.D. Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Advised by CEE Professor Susan Shaheen
Talk: Can Electric Vehicle Carsharing Improve Grocery Access in Underserved Communities? A Case Study of BlueLA

Ziad Yassine’s dissertation explores the potential of one-way electric vehicle (EV) carsharing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while advancing mobility equity. Focusing on BlueLA, an income-tiered electric vehicle (EV) carsharing program in Los Angeles, his research examines whether such services can improve access to essential destinations—specifically, grocery stores—in underserved communities.

By integrating spatial-temporal accessibility modeling with user survey data, Ziad evaluates how well EV carsharing bridges transportation-related food access gaps. His findings provide new insights into the equity outcomes of sustainable mobility programs and highlight the importance of aligning transportation innovations with community needs.

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