Dr. Chris Cherry is a Professor at the University of Tennessee and is one of the foremost researchers on light electric mobility. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 with a dissertation focused on e-bikes in China. He has published extensively in research areas that include non-motorized safety and system design; the role of e-bikes, micromobility, and other emerging technologies on the transportation system; planning and economics; and sustainable transportation. He leads the Light Electric Vehicle Education and Research (LEVER) Initiative, a consortium of universities and industry to explore the role of emerging and potentially disruptive classes of electric vehicles on safety, sustainability, and health. He also chairs the Society of Automotive Engineers Micromobility Vehicles Committee and co-chairs the Transportation Research Board joint subcommittee on Emerging Vehicle Technologies.

Dr. Wei Gao is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include wireless and mobile network systems, mobile and edge computing, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems and big data. He has published more than 60 papers at top-tier journals and conference proceedings in these areas, and has served on the editorial board of multiple top-tier journals and the organizing and technical program committees of many conferences. He received the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2016.

John MacArthur is a Sustainable Transportation Program Manager at TREC - Portland State University. He is active in research related to sustainable transportation, particularly in the areas of transportation electrification, e-bikes, bike share, transit, and the relationship between transportation and public health. He has worked for 25 years in the environmental and sustainability field. He is also the co-director of the Light Electric Vehicle Education and Research (LEVER) Initiative and the Vice Chair of SAE’s Powered Micromobility Vehicles Committee. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and a M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health.

Mojdeh is currently a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering-Transportation and an MS candidate in Statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, working under the supervision of Dr. Chris Cherry. Her primary research interests include sustainable last-mile delivery, pedestrian and bicycle safety, and using new technologies, big data, and machine learning in policymaking and planning. She is a LEED Green Associate accredited professional, holds a MArch in Architecture from the University of New Mexico, and was a visiting student at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) during Fall 2019.

Renfan Yang is a second-year PhD student within the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests center around mobile connected health and applications in the Internet of Things. After Renfan graduated in 2018 with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Pitt, he decided to explore further and began working under the supervision of Dr. Wei Gao. His other interests include pattern recognition and network security.

Mike is second year graduate student in the Civil Engineering MS program, Transportation specialization, at Portland State University. He is an FHWA Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation fellow, a Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) StreetLight Graduate fellow, and a National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) scholar. His research interests include e-bikes, bike share, and multimodality. Mike is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and became interested in urban transportation topics after interning in Paris, France for six months. In his spare time, he enjoys yoga, virtual air traffic simulation, and riding BIKETOWN.