Team Members

Patrick Loa
Patrick Loa is a postdoctoral researcher with the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program (3RFM) in the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. His research involves the estimation of econometric and statistical modes to examine the factors influencing the adoption and utilization of emerging mobility services and to understand the determinants of travel behavior. Patrick received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2023.

Basar Ozbilen
Basar Ozbilen is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility (3RFM) program of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis). His research centers around travel behavior, emerging technologies, transportation equity, transportation and health, and land-use planning. His studies have been published in major transportation journals, including Transportation Research Part A (TR-A), Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS), and Travel Behaviour and Society (TBS). He has also presented at numerous conferences in the US, Brazil, Turkey, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Basar obtained a Ph.D. degree in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University. He received his Master's degree in City Planning and Bachelor's degree in City and Regional Planning, both from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Maria Carolina Lecompte
Maria Carolina Lecompte is a Ph.D candidate at the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS) at UC Davis. She is a Civil Engineer with a Master’s degree in Engineering with an emphasis on Transportation from the University of Los Andes, Colombia, and a Master's degree in Urban Development Planning from University College London. Before joining UC Davis, Maria Carolina was working as an Advisor to the Secretary of Mobility in Bogota. She has over 10 years of experience in transportation planning, especially in Colombia, where she worked in both the public and private sectors, as well as in academia.

Keita Makino
Keita Makino is a Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Technology and Policy at UC Davis. His research uniquely focuses on bridging several interests in transportation to new forms of data science and statistical analysis, with various web-based technologies, such as web-based data-visualization framework, database-management platform, GraphQL, or Azure cloud platform. He is the developer of the qualtrics-map tool for Qualtrics survey platform, and has interned at Surveymark Inc. and UniversalGiving. He has received the Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship at UC Davis, the James A. Ditch Education Fund at Cal Poly Pomona where he obtained a M.S. in Civil Engineering, and the Scholarship for International Student Training Program and the Design the Future Fund at Keio University where he obtained a B.E. in Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics.

Aurojeet Jena
Aurojeet Jena is a current Ph.D. student in Transportation Technology and Policy and works as a Graduate Student Researcher with the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program in the Institute of Transportation Studies at the UC Davis. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. His research interests include travel behaviour, sustainable mobility, micro mobility and discrete choice modeling. He has experience in using several software tools including R and SPSS.

Grant Matson
Grant Matson is the program manager of 3RFM. He graduated with a Masters Degree in the Transportation Technology and Policy (TTP) Program at the University of California, Davis. He holds an MBA from Fordham University and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California. Grant has 8+ years of brand management experience working in the entertainment industry and completed a Future Mobility Internship at the BMW Technology Office USA in Silicon Valley where he conducted research on micro-mobility travel behaviors. Grant’s expertise and interests include discrete choice modeling, transportation demand analysis, transportation policy, research design, and climate economics and policy. Grant is currently focusing on the segmentation of CA population by its propensity towards AV adoption and its impact on vehicle ownership using latent class analysis.
Supporting Members

Xiatian Iogansen
Xiatian Iogansen is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the George Washington University. She completed her PhD in Transportation Technology and Policy at UC Davis and previously worked within the '3 Revolution Future Mobility' Program in the Institute of Transportation Studies. She holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning and Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle and a Bachelor of Urban Planning by Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, where she received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award (top 1 %). Her research interests include travel demand management policies, the market transition and the behavior impact of emerging transportation services. She has experience on using several software tools including R, SQL, ArcGIS, Python, Tableau and STATA. She interned at Washington State DOT as a transportation planner from 2017 to 2019, where she assisted with the development of WA State Human Services Transportation Plan, and WA State Active Transportation Plan. She is a Washington State Public Transportation Conference 'Wall of Fame' Honoree.

Jai Malik
Jai Malik is a specialist in South Asia Transport at World Bank. His expertise and research topics include travel behavior, survey design and administration, discrete choice models, land-use and new mobility. He completed a PhD and M. Sc. in Transportation Technology and Policy at UC Davis, and a B.Tech. on Environmental Engineering at the Delhi Technological University. Prior to coming to Davis, Jai worked as a research associate at The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) of India, where he collected data and prepared emission inventories, conducted stakeholder workshops for air quality and transportation, produced policy recommendations and prepared policy briefs, and wrote op-eds/newspaper articles for air pollution and transport policy in India.