CTR - Key Persons


Alberto Garcia-Díaz

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT

Alexis Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS
Alexis Sullivan is a second-year mechanical engineering major. As a CTR student intern, she is working under Jerry Everett to research current STEM kits for kids based around transportation technologies to later assist in developing a kit or lesson for CTR.

Amanda Devers

Job Titles:
  • Program Analyst

Anahita Khojandi

Job Titles:
  • Industrial & Systems Engineering / RESEARCH INTERESTS

Anne Marie Anway

Job Titles:
  • Long Range Planning Division Coordinator I, TDOT

Armando Fontes


Asad Khattak

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT
Wali B., A. Khattak, & N. Ahmed, Examining correlations between motorcyclist's conspicuity, apparel related factors and injury severity score: Evidence from new motorcycle crash causation study, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 131, 2019, pp. 45-62 Kamrani M., R. Arvin, & A. Khattak, What measures of driving volatilities best explain crash frequency at intersections? 18-00089, Presented at Transportation Research Board annual meeting, National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2018. Robinson RM, A. Collins, C. Jordan, P Foytik, & A. Khattak, Modeling the Impact of traffic incidents during Hurricane Evacuations using a large scale microsimulation, Forthcoming, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.013. Wang, Xin, Liu, Jun, Khattak, A. J., & Clarke, D.B., (2016). Non-crossing rail-trespassing crashes in the past decade: A spatial approach to analyzing injury severity. Safety Science, 82, 44-55. Driver impairment detection and safety enhancement through comprehensive volatility analysis. Arvin, R., & Khattak, A. J. "Driving impairments and Duration of distractions: Assessing Crash Risk by Harnessing Microscopic Naturalistic Driving Data". Under review in Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting 2020.

Baoshan Huang

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering

Beth Jirik

Job Titles:
  • Program Administrator, TDOT Long Range Planning Division

Beth Vernon

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, THSO

Bill Gilpin

Job Titles:
  • 226 Capitol Boulevard Building, Suite 606 / Nashville, TN 37219 - 1804

Brad Collett

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT

Candace Brakewood

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering

Carol Hatmaker

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Charles Sims

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Economics

Christopher Cherry

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT

Danielle Meyers

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator I

David K. Irick

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering / Faculty Advisor for the EcoCAR 3 Team / RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dayakar Penumadu

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering

DeAnna Flinchum

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff, CTR Director, Tennessee Vans

Debbie Bower

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist III

Dr. Airton Kohls

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate III

Dr. David B. Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor

Dr. Larry G. Bray

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Economics
  • Research Professor

Dr. Stephen H. Richards

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief, Journal of Transportation Safety & Security

Elizabeth Duty

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS
Elizabeth Duty is a CTR Intern under Jerry Everett.

Eugene Fitzhugh

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT

Frank Brewer

Job Titles:
  • TTAP Work Zone Instructor

Fredrick Wegmann

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT

Gabrielle Burton

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate, TDOT Long Range Planning Division

Georg Schaur

Job Titles:
  • Marketing & Supply Chain Management

Grady Owen

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Graduate Research Assistant / RESEARCH
Grady is assisting Dr. Jerry Everett as they perform a transportation skills gap analysis and inventory for CR2C2. Additionally, he will assist with analyzing the results of the inventory to determine missing components in the existing training/education offerings.

Heewon Chea

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate, TDOT Long Range Planning Division

Herman Wright

Job Titles:
  • Planning Specialist, TDOT

Jacquelyn Richardson

Job Titles:
  • IT Analyst II

Jason Ivey

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director, THSO

Jennifer Richards

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Food Science & Technology

Jenny Jones

Job Titles:
  • Editor TTAPs Road Talk Newsletter

Jerry Everett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Jia (Lisa) Li

Job Titles:
  • IT Analyst II

Joe Dunbar

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS
Joe is a senior at UTK, Majoring in Business Analytics & statistics with a Supply Chain Management Collateral. Upon graduation, he will attend Undergraduate Pilot Training for the Air Force. Joe is a marketing/outreach intern with CTR's teen outreach program #GetConvinced. He currently assists with program refinement, event preparation and management, as well as teen driving/pedestrian safety research.

John Bell

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / Marketing & Supply Chain Management / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Marketing & Supply Chain Management / RESEARCH

John H. Mayes

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

John Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT

John Scruggs

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician III

John Z. Ma

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT
Behavior and design of prestressed concrete bridges; Mechanics and applications of high performance concrete and fiber reinforced polymer composites; Sustainable Structures; Accelerated construction in highway bridges.

Jonathon Overly

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / Institute for a Secure & Sustainable Environment / Director, East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition ( ETCleanFuels ) RESEARCH INTERESTS

Joshua Fu

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT

Judy Carver

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist II

Katie Roark

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, THSO

Kevin Hager

Job Titles:
  • Operations Administrator, THSO

Kevin Heaslip

Job Titles:
  • Director

Lance Saunders

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / Marketing & Supply Chain Management / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Marketing & Supply Chain Management / RESEARCH

Lee Han

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT

LEL Statewide

Job Titles:
  • Training Coordinator, THSO

Linda Capps

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Lori Bullard

Job Titles:
  • Law Enforcement Administrator, THSO

Marcella Kaplan

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Mareike Ortmann

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate II

Marissa Maurer

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Assistant

Matt Cate

Job Titles:
  • Director of Tennessee Transportation Assistance Program

Matthew Murray

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Economics

Melissa Smith

Job Titles:
  • Claims Analyst, THSO

Michael Presson


Michelle McGuffin - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications

Mingzhou Jin

Job Titles:
  • Industrial & Systems Engineering / RESEARCH INTERESTS

Misty Richards

Job Titles:
  • Grant Coordinator

Natasha Van Dyke

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator I, TDOT Long Range Planning Division

Pamela Boyd-Walker

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Planner, TDOT Long Range Planning Division

Peter Liaw

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Materials Science & Engineering

Qing Charles Cao

Job Titles:
  • Cao
  • DEPARTMENT

Rapinder Sawhney

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT
  • Industrial & Systems Engineering / RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rhiannon Chambers

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, THSO

Richard Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • DEPARTMENT

Robert Gibson

Job Titles:
  • IT Administrator

Roxanne Stec

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, THSO

Sandra Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Specialist I

Savannah Patel

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS
Savannah Patel is a junior majoring in marketing at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is an intern working to find local sponsors for the #GetConvinced program. In addition to this, she provides support in the program's teen highway safety at events at East Tennessee high schools.

Savannah Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Long Range Planning Specialist, TDOT Long Range Planning Division

Seunghan Ryu

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Shandi Smith

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, THSO

Sheri Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant, THSO

Shih Lung Shaw

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / Geography / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Geography / RESEARCH

Sophia Jodoin

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT / RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS
Jodoin is currently a Senior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, studying Sustainability and Geography. She is assisting in TEAM-TN's engine development research to provide a more equitable mobility ecosystem in the state of Tennessee through an NSF-funded grant. She is working to provide a social science background to the equity side of the TEAM-TN engine initiative.

Spence Meyers

Job Titles:
  • IT Analyst II

Subhadeep Chakraborty

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering / RESEARCH INTERESTS

Tammy Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Tennessee River

Job Titles:
  • Director

Tim Rials

Job Titles:
  • DEPARTMENT

Tony Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician III

Vanessa Washington

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist III

Victoria Coy

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Specialist I

Warren Wilson

Job Titles:
  • IT Analyst II

William West

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician III