• Qisheng Pan, Ph.D.

Professor, Public Affairs and Planning, UTA

Professor Pan’s research interests span transportation and infrastructure planning, economic impact analysis, and applications of Computing Technology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in urban studies. His research on infrastructure planning explores the economic impacts of infrastructure facilities, infrastructure management, and the spatial layouts of urban infrastructures for significant real estate developments. His transportation-related research concentrates on freight transportation modeling, socio-economic impacts of transportation projects, transit accessibility measures, and environmental effects of transportation.

• Soheil Sharifi-Asl, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, Urban Planning & Public Policy, UTA

Soheil is a Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. Holding a master’s and bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of Tehran and completing his dissertations in transportation, Soheil is interested in urban transportation, transportation equity, and transportation infrastructure planning, public transit planning and modeling, transportation big data, and statistical models.