![Jana Chiang](https://www.urbanfreightlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Chiang-Jana.jpg)
- Net-Zero Logistics Intern, Urban Freight Lab
- Undergraduate Student, Community, Environment, and Planning
Jana’s research interests include last-mile delivery, shared mobility, and logistics in the urban environment.
Jana is gathering and analyzing performance data for Net Zero Logistics final-mile operations in the New York tri-state area and writing a paper on e-cargo bike policy and pilot programs.
Gabor Wehrmueller is a Research Assistant at the Urban Freight Lab and is pursuing a Master’s in Supply Chain Management at Foster School of Business. Before starting his Master’s, Gabor worked for over three years as a data scientist digitalizing the supply chain of a pharma company in Switzerland.
Gabor also holds an MSc in Applied Information and Data Science (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and a BA in Social Sciences (University of Zurich).
Jake Paulsene is a current undergraduate student in the Civil & Environmental Engineering program at the University of Washington. His research interests include studying urban and last-mile freight movement, the intersection between transportation engineering and urban planning policies, and the solutions tackling social equity and justice issues.
Outside of academia, you can find Jake rock climbing or cafe hopping in Seattle.
Thomas (Tom) Maxner holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University and a Master of Public Policy and Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at the University of Washington.
Before his graduate student career, Tom worked in project management for Clark Construction in Washington, D.C. for seven years, where he managed the construction of several educational facilities and residential buildings. He is interested in improving sustainability in the freight transport sector from maritime shipping to last-mile delivery.
Since relocating to the west coast from Washington, D.C., Tom and his wife have traveled to many National Parks for camping trips.
Tom was awarded a fellowship from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. At Syracuse University, he was awarded the K.L. Lui Memorial Award by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for student organization leadership and community service and was an SU Chancellor’s Scholar. He remains involved with SU as a member of the College of Engineering Young Alumni Board.
Manali Sheth holds a Bachelors degree in Ethnomusicology from UCLA and a Master of Urban Planning, with a focus on Transportation, from the University of Washington.
Gabriela Girón-Valderrama holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the Technological University of Panama and an MS in Civil Engineering (Transportation Track) from the University of Washington. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Washington as well as serving as a research assistant for the Urban Freight Lab. She works for the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) as an Urban Freight Coordinator.
She is a member of the Urban Freight Transportation Committee (AT025) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board (TRB).
Travis Fried is a spatial data and urban freight enthusiast with a Master’s degree in GIS from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from Carleton College. Previously, he worked as an urban mobility researcher for World Resources Institute (WRI) studying the environmental, health, and equity impacts of open public transit data, urban freight, shared mobility, transport-related stimulus spending and impact investing – among other topics. When he’s not making maps, you can find him backpacking somewhere off in the mountains. In fact, Travis has backpacked the entire state of Washington both north to south and east to west.
I hold a BS in Operations Research and Engineering from Cornell University, with minors in Computer Science and Music. After graduating, I became a Teach For America corps member, and spent two years teaching Mathematics at West Rocks Middle School in Norwalk, Connecticut. Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Washington and am serving as a research assistant in the Urban Freight Lab.
Polina Butrina Butrina holds a BS in Intermodal Transportation from the Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation, Russia, and a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from the University of Washington. She wrote her Master’s thesis on Preparing cities for package demand growth: predicting neighborhood demand and implementing truck VMT reduction strategies.
Panagiota (Nota) Goulianou holds a bachelor’s in architectural engineering from the Technical University of Crete and a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently continuing her studies in Transportation Engineering as a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington.
During her master’s studies, Nota worked as a graduate research assistant for the Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI), where her research focused on intermodal freight transportation and port resilience. She served as the president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter (May 2019 – February 2020) and the vice president of the WTS student chapter at FAU.