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	Aruna Sivakumar Professor of Consumer Demand Modelling and Urban System Travel behaviour and demand modelling; Econometrics and discrete choice; Urban energy systems and modelling end user demand; Integrated urban models; Modelling urban freight.
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	Fangce Guo Senior Teaching Fellow, PhD Short-term traffic prediction. Email Fangce
	Jacek Pawlak Research Fellow, PhD Transport demand and travel behaviour modelling; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour; digital time use and connectivity; travel time use; productivity; valuation of travel time savings; big data enrichment methods and applications. Email Jacek
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	Han Wang Research Associate understanding human behaviour and choice in energy and transport systems via demand modeling, DSM, DSR, LLMs, pedestrian-vehicle interaction, and VR. Email Han
	Tang Li Research Associate Modelling the mixed traffic flow of Autonomous Vehicles and Human-Driven Vehicles; developing novel control and management strategies; Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs); Vehicle to Grid (V2G); Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Virtual Reality (VR); Urban Railway System and Urban System. Email Tang
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	Abdulfatah Abu Started Oct 2018 Forecasting future car ownership preference taking into account changes in the structure of private transport. Supervised by: Sivakumar, A. Email Abdulfatah
	James Shepherd Started Oct 2023 V2g Supervised by: Sivakumar, A.; Email James
	Jeff Wu Started Oct 2022 Choice models. Supervised by: Sivakumar, A.; Email Jeff
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Emeritus and Senior Research Investigators
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	Chenyang Wu Honorary Research Associate Research interests: Modelling of shared vehicles demand.
	Francesco Manca Honorary Research Associate Research interests: Travel behaviour and transport demand.
	Marcus Wigan Visiting Professor His research interests include (i) integrated transport policy including powered and unpowered two and three wheelers, as well as mobility options ranging from electric bicycles to hybrid and conventional 'cars', freight and logistical systems and modelling analyses of all these areas; pavement management systems and ITS; GIS applications to human geography; Location Based Services and their ITS and privacy and surveillance aspects; Governance of transport and information systems; transport data and its effective utilisation; and contestable evidence based policy as a transformative tool in the transitions to sustainability.
	Neil Hoose Senior Research Investigator, Visiting Professor In 1999 Neil formed the Bittern Partnership, which subsequently became Bittern Consulting Limited in 2003, an independent consultancy specialising in intelligent transport systems, with particular experience in traffic monitoring technologies and traffic data systems.
	Rajesh Krishnan Honorary Research Fellow Dr Rajesh Krishnan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Transport Studies. His research areas include Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), traffic sensors, real-time and offline analysis and use of transport data, traffic control and management and public transport. He has been involved with a number of cutting edge ITS projects, working closely with academia and local government agencies in the UK.
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Emeritus and Senior Research Investigators
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	Ahmadreza Faghih Imani Senior Teaching Fellow Travel behaviour and demand modeling, Active transportation, Integrated land-use/transport modeling, Urban energy systems
	Alireza Zolfaghari Honorary Research Associate He is a data scientist by background specialising in the areas of machine learning and econometrics. He has served as an advisor to deputy minister of housing on a wide range of technology and policy issues and was an Assistant Professor at Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Centre. Alireza holds a PhD from Imperial College London in urban systems modelling with over 5 years of experience of interdisciplinary research in economics and computer science with applications to smart cities.
	Bianca Howard Honorary Research Associate Research Interests: Buildings and their interaction with energy and transport systems. Methods: Dynamic Thermal Modelling; Model Predictive Control; Mixed Integer Linear Programming; Simulation of Stochastic Processes.
	Charilaos Latinopoulos Honorary Research Associates Research Interests: Electric vehicles and the effects of charging demand on the power grid; Shared mobility systems; Revenue management; Dynamic pricing; Choice modelling; Stated preferences.
	Esra Suel Honorary Research Associate Research interests: application of learning methods to large scale data (e.g. street imagery and high resolution satellite data), for characterizing urban environmental features and exposures that are relevant for health, measurement of urban inequalities and how they change in social economic status, housing, and transport.
	Nicolò Daina Senior Data Scientist Developing long-term forecasts for demand-side management (DSM) programs, distributed energy resources (DERs), and the electrification of heat and transportation.
	Scott Le Vine Honorary Research Fellow Le Vine is an Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz, an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College, He frequently delivers invited talks to audiences in academia practicing urban planners, and the automotive industry. He is lead-inventor of patent-pending congestion pricing technology for Self-Driving (Automated) Cars, and has provided expert testimony to various levels of government in both the UK and US. His research interests are: Mobility Services; Accessibility Theory; Traffic Control Strategies; Pricing and Market Governance.
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