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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. 

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Dr. Cesunica E. Ivey

Principal Investigator

Dr. Ivey is an Associate Professor (eff Jul 1) of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, and she is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Download her CV here

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Cam Phelan

Ph.D. Candidate

Cam is a Ph.D. candidate in the environmental engineering program. She leads research on wintertime air pollution during persistent temperature inversion events. Specifically, she investigates chemical transport model sensitivity to chemical mechanism choice and process-related contributions to modeled  pollution during inversions. 

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Duncan Quevedo

Ph.D. Candidate

Duncan is a Ph.D. candidate in the environmental engineering program. He leads research on the development of air quality modeling tools for air pollution mitigation applications. He also develops empirical and first-principles methods to better characterize model uncertainty and sensitivity to emissions and meteorology.

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Yi Ji

Ph.D. 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. She also assisted with the CARB sponsored time-activity pattern review.

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Sumukhi Prasad

Ph.D. Student

Sumu is Ph.D. student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She also is an NSF GRFP awardee. She is leading research on personal air pollution exposures and measurement biases. 

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Sophie Castillo

Ph.D. Student

Sophie is Ph.D. student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She also is a UC Berkeley Chancellor's fellow. She is leading research at the intersection of air pollution and climate adaptation.

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Ivette Torres

Ph.D. Student

Ivette is Ph.D. student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She led the 2020-2023 CARB Year 2 Community Air Grant at UC Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) as project coordinator. She is also a UC Berkeley CEEJ seed grant recipient.

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Christopher Devlin

Undergraduate Researcher

Christopher is an environmental science  and business administration student. He is also a SEED scholar. He supports the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project and other projects related to smoke exposure risk assessment.

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Lauren Kim

Undergraduate Researcher

Lauren is a society and environment student with a minor in geospatial information sciences and technology. She leads technical support and research for community-based projects in Marin City, CA. 

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Ishaan Gupta

High School Researcher

Ishaan is supporting the EPA STAR wildfire smoke communication project. 

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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

2025

Dr. Jennifer Ofodile, Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; now Principal Air Quality Specialist at Bay Area Air District

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Stessie Chounoune, M.S. Environmental Engineering

Srishti Hazra, M.S. Energy, Civil Infrastructure, and Climate

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2024

Ayah Hassan, M.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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​Grace Contreras, B.S. Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Isabelle Goebel, B.S. Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

Peri Muftuoglu, B.S. Environmental Engineering Science, UC Berkeley

Parker Yang, B.S. Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

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2023

Dr. Khanh Do, Ph.D. Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside; now Postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University

 

​Prof. Abiola Lawal, ASEE eFellows Postdoctoral Scholar; now Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut

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Andrea Delgado, B.S. Environmental Science, UC Riverside

Zoe Haynes, B.S. Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

Mara Lovric, Energy Engineering, UC Berkeley

Charlotte Mourad, B.S. Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley

Migdalia Sanchez, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

April Zhang, B.S. Data Science, B.S. Sustainable Environmental Design, UC Berkeley

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Anusha Ladha, High School Volunteer

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2022

Alexander Nguyen, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside

 

2021

Sebastien Banales, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside

Karrengton Fountain, B.S. Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside

Arash Kashfi Yeganeh, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside

Jasmin Velasquez, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside

Ruoming Xu, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside

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2019

Anthony Arteaga, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside

Aaron Garcia, Aerospace Engineering, Riverside City College

Cole Lawless, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Riverside

Ali Raza, B.A. 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

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