Our Research Team

Dr. Cesunica E. Ivey

Principal Investigator

Dr. Ivey is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, and she is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Download her CV here. 

Ivette Torres

Project Specialist

itorr010@ucr.edu

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

alawal7@berkeley.edu

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

kdo037@ucr.edu

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. Student

jofodile@berkeley.edu

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

yji008@berkeley.edu

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.quevedo@berkeley.edu

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. 

Sumukhi Prasad

Master's Student

sumukhi_prasad@berkeley.edu

Sumukhi is a graduate student in the environmental engineering program at UC Berkeley. She leads research on policy efforts for the reduction of air pollution disparities. 

Alex Nguyen

Undergraduate Researcher

anguy344@ucr.edu

Alex is a chemical engineering undergraduate student at UC Riverside. He leads research on the investigation of hyperlocal traffic impacts along Riverside's Innovation Corridor.  

Andrea Delgado

Undergraduate Resarcher

Andrea is an environmental sciences undergraduate student at UC Riverside. She is the lead undergraduate researcher for the CARB Year 2 Community Air Grant. 

adelg067@ucr.edu

Undergraduate Volunteers

UC Riverside and Riverside City College volunteers support the CARB Community Air Grant research efforts.