Joan Walker

Office Hours:

• Tuesdays, 1 pm to 3 pm

Biography

Joan Walker is a Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Walker’s research focus is behavioral modeling, with expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations. Walker is also a member of several professional organizations, including the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and the Journal Editorial Boards. Walker has also received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) – the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers and serves as the Chair of the Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. 

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Transportation Systems, 2001

S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Transportation, 1994

B.S., University of California at Berkeley, Civil Engineering, 1991