Our Research Team
The AQMEL research team comprises bright and innovative scholars who bring a diversity of experiences and perspectives to our group. Scroll below to learn more about our specialists, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate contributors.
Ivette Torres
Project Specialist
Ivette is a 2020 graduate of the UC Riverside in environmental sciences program. She leads the CARB Year 2 Community Air Grant at UC Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT). Ivette is also a fellow of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability.
Dr. Abiola Lawal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Abi is a 2021 graduate of the Georgia Tech environmental engineering Ph.D. program. She is an awardee of the inaugural class of ASEE eFellowship scholars. She conducts research on the air quality impacts of urban infrastructure and the health impacts of wintertime air pollution.
Khanh Do
Ph.D. Candidate
Khanh is a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Riverside chemical and environmental engineering program. He is currently leading research on machine learning and advanced computational hardware for air pollution predictions.
Jennifer Ofodile
Ph.D. Candidate
Jennifer is a Ph.D. student in the UC Berkeley ESPM department and an NSF GRFP awardee. She is currently leading research on VOC characterization in indoor household environments.
Yi Ji
Master's Student
Yi is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She leads research that investigates the challenges of communicating wildfire exposure risks to the public.
Duncan Quevedo
Master's Student
Duncan is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. He leads research on the development of air quality modeling tools for community applications and the use satellite imagery for air pollution management.
Cam Phelan
Master's Student
Cam is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She leads research on wintertime air pollution during inversion events.
April Zhang
Undergraduate Researcher
April is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in data science and sustainable environmental design. She assists with satellite data analysis to support smoke exposure research.
Andrea Delgado
Undergraduate Resarcher
Andrea is an environmental sciences undergraduate student at UC Riverside. She is a lead undergraduate researcher for the CARB Year 2 Community Air Grant. She is a former 2022 NASA SARP fellow and is now an intern in NASA's Digital Earth Virtual and Learning Outreach Program.
Charlotte Mourad
Post-Baccalaureate Scholar
Charlotte is a post-baccalaureate scholar at UC Berkeley. She is a lead researcher for the CARB Year 2 Community Air Grant. She is a former 2022 SURF UROC Gates Foundation fellow and is now a fellow of the Young Climate Leaders of Color program.
Undergraduate Volunteers
UC Riverside and Riverside City College volunteers support the CARB Community Air Grant research efforts. UC Berkeley undergraduates support our EPA STAR research.
Alumni
2022
Sumukhi Prasad, Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Alexander Nguyen, UC Riverside
2021
Sebastien Banales, Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Karrengton Fountain, Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside
Arash Kashfi Yeganeh, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside
Jasmin Velasquez, Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Ruoming Xu, Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
2019
Anthony Arteaga, Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Aaron Garcia, Aerospace Engineering, Riverside City College
Cole Lawless, Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Ali Raza, Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside
Saray Rodriguez, Business Information Systems, Riverside City College
Hector Soto, Electrical Engineering, Riverside City College
Priscilla Villegas, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Riverside City College
David Wilson, Electrical Engineering, Riverside City College