Transportation Systems Researchers
Matthew Barth, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor Matthew Barth, Yeager Families Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering, received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1984, and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Barth joined the University of Calfornia-Riverside in 1991, conducting research in Electrical Engineering and the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), where he is currently director.
Dr. Barth's research focuses on applying engineering system concepts and automation technology to Transportation Systems, and in particular how it relates to energy and air quality issues.
Dr. Barth is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA), Transportation Research Board's Transportation and Air Quality Committee, New Technology Committee, and ITS America's Energy and Environment Committee. He has also served on several National Research Council (NRC) committees. Current research interests include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation/Emissions Modeling, Vehicle Activity Analysis, Electric Vehicle Technology, and Advanced Sensing and Control.
Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Assistant Research Faculty
Dr. Boriboonsomsin received a Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Mississippi in 2004. After that, he served as a visiting assistant professor at Ohio Northern University for the academic year 2004-2005, where he taught courses in transportation engineering, traffic engineering, highway engineering, urban planning, and surveying. He then joined CE-CERT in July 2005 as a postdoctoral scholar in the Transportation Systems Research group.
Currently, Dr. Boriboonsomsin holds an Assistant Research Engineer (research faculty) position at CE-CERT. His research interests include the relationship of land use and transportation to energy and air quality, transportation planning, vehicle emissions modeling, traffic simulation, geographic information system (GIS) applications in transportation, and intelligent transportation system (ITS) technology. His current research focuses on developing innovative ITS applications that benefit the environment, improving the inventorying methods of on-road mobile emissions, evaluating strategies to reduce greenhouse gases from surface transportation, among others.
Dr. Boriboonsomsin is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), and the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transportation Infrastructures (iSMARTi). He also serves on the TRB's Transportation and Air Quality Standing Committee and the iSMARTi's Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee.
George Scora, Assistant Development Engineer
George ScoraMr. Scora graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 1995 with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering. He worked part time as a Student Research Assistant at CE-CERT for the last half of his senior year and was involved in remote outdoor video traffic data collections, emission data analysis, and various programming tasks. Upon graduation, Mr. Scora accepted full-time work with CE-CERT's Transportation System Research group on the three-year National Cooperative Highway Research Program project involving modal emission modeling. His responsibilities included emission database maintenance, numerous varying data analyses, helping develop a modal-based emission model, and the organization and summarization of data for publications, reports, seminars and conferences in numerical and graphical formats.
Mr. Scora is proficient on Unix and PC platforms and has extensive knowledge of Matlab and C++ programming. Mr. Scora is also familiar with VBasic and various Unix-based shell programming languages and formats such as Perl and sed.
Mike Todd, Principal Development Engineer
Michael Todd graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 1994 with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering. He worked as a Student Research Assistant at CE-CERT from 1992 to 1994, focusing his research on transportation engineering and air pollution engineering. During this time he presented a paper on Ozone Trends within the Southern California Air Basin to the Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research in Pasadena, California. In 1993, Mr. Todd was named the Outstanding Student in Environmental Engineering at UCR
Upon graduating in 1994, Mr. Todd accepted a CE-CERT staff position as a Junior Development Engineer. From 1994 to 1996, Todd has focused on two areas of research, the first of which deals with remotely-sensed on-road vehicle emissions. As a result, Mr. Todd participated in the California Bureau of Automotive Repair pilot program Smog Check 2 and has also conducted various research projects utilizing remote sensing, presenting the results from one of the studies at the 1995 Fifth Annual CRC Conference. The second area of research has been in transportation engineering; this includes the development of an Integrated Transportation/Emissions Model (ITEM), and managing a transportation data collection team. Mr. Todd's current areas of research focus on transportation engineering in addition to air pollution engineering and remote sensing.
Alexander Vu, Junior Development Engineer
Alex Vu graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He worked as a Student Research Assistant at CE-CERT from 2006-2007, focusing his research on environmental friendly navigation. Upon graduation, Mr. Vu accepted a staff position with CE-CERT's Transportation Research System group. His responsibilities included GIS analysis, programming, development of a vehicle activity database, and assisting in the development of environmental-friendly navigation technologies.