ADVISORS

Berkeley Transportation Systems has two industry-leading experts in
transportation systems as advisors.

Dr. Pravin Varaiya

Dr. Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1975 to 1992 he was also Professor of Economics at Berkeley. His research is concerned with communication networks, transportation, and hybrid systems. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the California PATH program. He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He received an Honorary Doctorate from L’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Discrete Event Dynamical Systems" and "Transportation Research---C".

Dr. Alex Skabardonis

Dr. Skabardonis is an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Research Engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Skabardonis specializes in traffic flow theory, traffic management and control systems, modeling and simulation of traffic operations and the design and operation of transportation facilities.