Each year, 15–30 graduate students from engineering, urban studies & planning, and other fields are hired as graduate research assistants for PSU faculty as well as students to support TREC programs and research projects. Below are the Portland State University students working as graduate research assistants for TREC staff and researchers.

2023-2024

Evan Howington
Advisors: John MacArthur and Nathan McNeil
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Evan is a first year Masters student in Urban and Regional Planning at Portland State University. Prior to working with TREC, Evan worked at Trillium Transit and Optibus supporting transit agencies nationwide with disseminating passenger information and making it easier to take transit! When not thinking about transportation, Evan enjoys growing chili peppers and making his own hot sauce.

 

Kyu Ri Kim
Advisors: Jennifer Dill and Nathan McNeil
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Kyu Ri is a Ph.D. student in urban planning at the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. She is currently supporting Jennifer Dill on various research projects. In the recent past, she supported Dr. Dill and Hau Hagedorn in transportation data analysis and visualization (including BikePed Portal and OHSU Census data), Dr. Dill and Nathan McNeil on the Research Roadmap for the AASHTO Council on Active Transportation, and other transportation research.

Julay Leatherman-Brooks
Advisor: Tammy Lee
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Julay Leatherman-Brooks is a masters student in computer science, with a focus on security. Julay is currently working with Tammy Lee and Basem Elazzabi on TREC’s transportation data programs, PORTAL and BikePed Portal.  

 
Jiahui Ma
Advisors: Jennifer Dill and Nathan McNeil
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Jiahui is a Ph.D. student in urban planning at the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. She is currently supporting Jennifer Dill and Nathan McNeil on the Evaluation of Road User Comprehension and Compliance with Red Colored Transit Priority Lanes as well analyzing data from the Breaking Barriers to Bike Share project.