Alumni

This page includes students and Nexus alumni that Director and Professor Dr. David Levinson has worked with and supervised, including their degree completion dates, awards, place of employment, and supporters, if applicable.

Completed Post Doctoral Research / Completed Ph.D. Degrees / Completed M.S. Plan A Degrees / Completed M.S. Plan B. Degrees / Master of Urban & Regional Planning / Undergraduate Student Supervision

Completed Post Doctoral Research

Ahmed El-Geneidy (June 2005 - August 2007 Civil Engineering/Urban and Regional Planning) - Assistant Professor at McGill University, School of Urban Planning

Completed Ph.D. Degrees

Lei Zhang (February 2006- PhD Civil Engineering) - Assistant Professor at Oregon State University, Department of Civil Engineering
- Thesis: Search, Information, Learning, and Knowledge in Travel Decision-Making: A Positive Approach for Travel Behavior and Demand Analysis

Completed M.S. Plan A Degrees

Seshasai Kanchi (May 2001)
- Thesis: Time Use and Capacity Expansion
- Awards: CTS Matthew Huber Prize (2001)
- ICF Consulting, Bank One, and Citigroup
Pavithra Kandadai Parthsarathi(October 2001)
- Thesis: Disaggregate Analysis of Induced Demand
- URS
Atif Sheikh (March 2002) - Delta Engineering
- Thesis: Traffic Equilibration: Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut Off
Xi Zou (May 2002)
- Thesis: Simulation and Analysis of Mixed Adaptive Cruise Control/Manual Traffic
Satya Muthuswamy (May 2002, Co-advised with Panos Michalopoulos)
- Thesis: Estimation of Origin Destination Matrices for Freeway Sections Using Detector Data
- KLD Associates
Shantanu Das (June 2002)
- Thesis: A Queuing Analysis of Freeway Bottleneck Formation and Shockwave Propogation
- Wilbur Smith and Diamond Cluster
Ramachandra Karamalaputi (June 2002)
- Thesis: Predicting Network Growth
- Central Transportation Planning Staff - Boston MPO, Capital One and Progressive Insurance
Lei Zhang (September 2002)
- Thesis: Developing Efficient And Equitable Freeway Ramp Control Strategies
- Awards: Milton Pikarsky award for MS Thesis in Transportation Science and Technology (2002)
- Oregon State University Department of Civil Engineering
Lei Zhang (February 2005)
- Thesis: A Simulator of Network Growth for Network Economics and Policy Analysis (MS Applied Economics)
- Awards: CTS Matthew Huber Prize (2003)
Bhanu Yerra (Fall 2002)
- Thesis: The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation Networks
- Awards: Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science (2003)
- Thurston Regional Planning Council
Yao Wu (mail) (Spring 2003), (Co-advised with Gary Davis)
- Thesis: Estimation of Origin-Destination Matrices for Freeways
- Fehr and Peers and University of California at Berkeley (student)
Brian Smalkoski (Fall 2003)
- Thesis: Value of Time for Commercial Vehicle Operators in Minnesota
- Kimley-Horn
Kathy Carlson (Spring 2004)
- Thesis: Waiting Tolerance: Ramp Delay vs. Freeway Congestion
- RFC Engineering
Maryam Hashami (Spring 2004)
- Thesis: Operating Cost for Commercial Vehicle Operators in Minnesota
- MnDOT and Caltrans
Wei Chen (Spring 2004)
- Thesis: Highway Network Evolution Models
- Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
Ewa Zofka (January 2005)
- Thesis: Temporal and Spatial Stability of Travel Behavior: Twin Cities and Seattle, 1990 to 2000
- SRF and URS
Kasia Winiarczyk (Spring 2004) (Deceased)
- Thesis: Weighting Waiting: Evaluating the Perception of In-Vehicle Travel Time Under Moving and Stopped Conditions
Ning Li (April 2005)
- Thesis: A Freight Demand Model for Rural Minnesota
- MnDOT and VaDOT
Nebiyou Jonas Tilahun (August 2005-Student)
- Thesis: Trails, Lane, or Traffic: Valuing Bicycle Facilities with an Adaptive Stated Preference Survey
Feng Xie (August 2005-Student)
- Thesis: The Evolution of Road Networks: A Simulation Study Based on Network Degeneration
Norah Montes de Oca Robertson (July 2006)
- Thesis: Beyond Business as Usual: Ensuring the Network We Want is the Network We Get
- Loudoun County, Virginia
Michael Iacono (September 2006-Dual Degree)
- Thesis: Modeling the Cost Structure of Public Transit Firms: The Scale Economies Question and Alternate Functional Forms
- MURP Professional Paper: Dedicated Funding and Urban Transit Performance: Some Empirical Evidence
- Awards: Winner ASPA- Best Student Paper
- Nexus Group at University of Minnesota
Michael Corbett (September 2006)
- Thesis: Benefit Cost Analysis for Intersection Decision Support
- HDR
Vivek Deshpande (September 2006-Dual Degree)
- Thesis: Peak Spreading or Peak Shifting
- Kimley Horn
Ryan Wilson (Spring 2008-Dual Degree, Planning) (co-advised with Julian Marshall)
- Thesis: Effect of Education Policy and Urban Form on Elementary-age School Travel
- MURP Professional Paper: How Stable are Preferences for Neighborhood Types? Analyzing Residential Relocation Decisions
- MnDOT

Completed M.S. Plan B. Degrees

Hong Huo (August 2002)
- Paper: Effectiveness Evaluation of Variable Message Signs Using Empirical Data
Peter Rafferty (Fall 2002)
- Paper: Delayer Pays Principle: Examining Congestion Pricing with Compensation
- Short, Elliot, and Hendrickson (SEH) and University of Wisconsin at Madison
Wenling Chen (Spring 2004-Dual Degree, Planning)
- Paper: Effectiveness of Learning Transportation Network Growth through the Use of Simulator
- MURP Professional Paper: Analysis of Rail Transit Project Selection Bias with an Incentive Approach (2007) (Journal of Planning Theory Vol 6, Issue 3)
- Wilbur Smith and World Bank and Virginia DOT
Tyler Patterson (Fall 2007-Dual Degree, Planning)
Reuben Collins (Fall 2007-Dual Degree, Planning)
- Paper: Evaluation of a Roundabout at a Five-Way Intersection: An Alternatives Analysis Using Microsimulation
- MURP Professional Paper: Light Rail Transit Construction Impact Mitigation Strategies: Case Studies and Recommendations for the Central Corridor

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Students

(Advisor, Supervisor of Plan B or Professional Paper)

Andrew Johnson (Fall 2002)
- Paper: Bus Transit and Land Use: Illuminating the Interaction
- Oregon DOT
Praveena Pidaparthi (Spring 2003)
- Paper: Do You Work From Home? Studying the Travel Behavior of Telecommuters
- SRF
David King (Spring 2003)
- UCLA-Student
Wenling Chen (Spring 2004-Dual Degree, Civil Engineering) (see above)
Michael Iacono (Spring 2006-Dual Degree, Civil Engineering) (see above)
Tyler Patterson (Fall 2007-Dual Degree, Civil Engineering) (see above)
Reuben Collins (Fall 2007-Dual Degree, Civil Engineering) (see above)
Ryan Wilson (Spring 2008-Dual Degree, Civil Engineering) (see above)

Undergraduate Student Supervision

See-Chew Soon (2003) – CE Web Page Redesign

Doug Nagel (2003) – Spring Load Restrictions

Carl Peterson (2003) – Spring Load Restrictions

Cameron Smith (2003) – Network Growth

Sang Nguyen (2003) – Network Growth

Marbella Duran (2003) – Network Growth (Puerto Rico exchange student)

Fun-Kit Lim (2004) – Traffic Effects of the Bus Strike, Value of Information for Motorists, Beyond Business as Usual

Scott Peterson (2004) – Spring Load Restrictions

Jeffrey Kurth (2004) – UROP – Deploying a Hydrogen Infrastructure

Brendan Nee (2003) – Spring Load Restrictions (http://www.bnee.com/)

Ingrid Nordby (2004) – Value of Information for Motorists