Vishal Pandey is a Graduate student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his B.E in Civil Engineering from Mumbai University, India after which he worked for a year as a structural Design Engineer with a consulting firm in India. Vishal works in the area of Transportation and Air Quality, which involves understanding the effect of vehicle fleets on emissions and the dispersion of pollutants and their downwind concentrations at locations close to roadways. In his spare time he enjoys traveling to new places.

Seungkook Wu

Yanzhi (Ann) Xu comes from China.  She earned a B.S. in Environmental Science and a B.S. in Statistics at Peking University in Beijing in 2006.  In the Environmental Science program, she had the opportunity to look at the interaction between land use and transportation in Shenzhen, a fast growing city in the south of China.  The impact of congestion on the air quality in Beijing was also a major concern of the program.  Naturally, she became interested in transportation and decided to dedicate herself to the research in this area. Now she is at Georgia Tech, working toward a PhD degree.  In her spare time, Ann enjoys singing.  For her, where there’s music, there’s joy.

Kai Zuehlke grew up intermittently between southeast Asian metropolises and northern Virginian suburbs. He continues to operate between worlds, pursuing dual Masters degrees of Civil & Environmental Engineering and City & Regional Planning, with a focus in Urban Transportation Planning. Kai received a BS in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2005. He enjoys watching sports, keeping up with current global events, and meeting people.

Lyuba Zuyeva grew up in Novgorod, Russia and got her undergraduate degree in economics from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. She likes dancing, hiking and yoga. She is working on a dual degree in City and Regional Planning and Civil Engineering. Her research will be focused on optimizing future transit route layout and value pricing.

Jennifer Indech Nelson is an almost-native Atlantan, having lived in the area for twenty years. She attended Georgia Tech as an undergraduate, earning a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. After taking a year off to to work and travel around the country, Jennifer re-enrolled at Georgia Tech, this time to obtain Master's degrees in Civil Engineering and City & Regional Planning, with a focus on Transportation. Following graduation in May 2007, she is employed as a transportation planner in Atlanta.