Our Team
By creating a diverse team and highly prioritizing relationships between all critical stakeholders, ACCEL-RT proposes a pathway from research to demonstration to deployment that will identify the rural automated vehicle (RAV) technologies that will best help communities along the I-40 Corridor in the Southwest.
University of Oklahoma
Dong Zhang
Director, Energy Systems and Controls Lab
Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems
Bin Xu
Director, Mobility Intelligence Lab (MiLa)
SPTC Senior Project Coordinator and Tribal Outreach
Kim Johnson
Musharraf Zaman
SPTC Director
University of California at Berkeley
Scott Moura
Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director of the Energy, Controls, & Applications Lab (eCAL)
Acting Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies
Steven Shladover
Research Engineer at California PATH Program
Justin Wiley
Strategy and Development Director for UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies and Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Anthony D. Patire
Research and Development Engineer for California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH)
University of New Mexico
Lisa L. Losada-Rojas
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering University of New Mexico
Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering University of New Mexico
Susan Bogus
AGC Endowed Chair Professor of Construction Engineering and Management, University of New Mexico
Nick Ferenchak
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering University of New Mexico