Lauren Baldwin is the Sustainability Program Specialist for the City of El Paso and helps support all sustainability projects. Her main responsibilities include managing the social media, newsletter, outreach, and education portion of the City’s sustainability projects. She graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies with an Environmental Affairs focus and a Double Minor in Environmental Policy and Planning and Spanish. In 2011, Lauren conducted research about conservation agriculture practices in Ecuador as part of a USAID-funded research program. She is an enthusiastic environmentalist who was born in Alaska, then grew up in Arizona and Virginia before moving to El Paso. She is also currently pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration at UTEP.

Mario Berges is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in making our built environment more operationally efficient and robust through the use of information and communication technologies, so that it can better deal with future resource constraints and a changing environment. Berges is the faculty co-director of the IBM Smart Infrastructure Analytics Laboratory at CMU, as well as the director of the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Lab (INFERLab). Among recent awards, he received the Outstanding Early Career Researcher award from FIATECH in 2010, and the Dean’s Early Career Fellowship from CMU in 2015.

Dr. Joseph Chow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Urban Engineering and Deputy Director at the C2SMART University Transportation Center at NYU, and heads BUILT@NYU: the Behavioral Urban Informatics, Logistics, and Transport Laboratory. His research expertise lies in transportation systems, with emphasis on multimodal networks, behavioral urban logistics, smart cities, and transport economics. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient; he serves as the elected Vice Chair of the Urban Transportation SIG at INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society, and is an appointed member of the Editorial Boards for Transportation Research Part B and the Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30) at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Prior to NYU, Dr. Chow was the Canada Research Chair in Transportation Systems Engineering at Ryerson University. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Lecturer at University of Southern California and a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Irvine, where he led the development of a statewide freight forecast model for Caltrans. He has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UC Irvine (‘10), and an M.Eng. (‘01) and B.S. (‘00) in Civil Engineering from Cornell University with a minor in Applied Math. Dr. Chow is a former Eisenhower and Eno Fellow and a licensed PE in NY.

Vice-Dean for Foreign Relations / Faculty of Transportation Sciences / FTS Deputy head of department / Division of Foreign Relations / Faculty of Transportation Sciences / Department of Applied Mathematics / FTS Member of Dean's Collegium / FTS Member of Dean's Board / FTS

Victor M. Larios has received his PhD and a DEA (French version of a MS program) in Computer Science at the Technological University of Compiègne, France and a BA in Electronics Engineering at the ITESO University in Guadalajara, Mexico. Working at the University of Guadalajara, he holds a Full Professor-Researcher position at the Department of Information Systems in the CUCEA Campus. His research works are focused in distributed systems strategies to improve the support for large communities interacting on virtual reality environments ans Serious Games. Such strategies include computer mobile agents, optimization of algorithms for distributed and concurrency support and large scale simulations. As main projects, Victor M. Larios have worked in the development of Virtual Laboratories for educational activities, collaborative systems for interactive support and data visualization. Current works are focused in the development of Virtual Reality interfaces for collaborative Serious Games and large scale simulations. As other activities at the University of Guadalajara, he is the director od the Research Center in Systems & Information Management (CISGI). He is also, the Coordinator of the PhD in Information Technologies at the PostGraduate School and the Information Systems Department, University of Guadalajara. The PhD program is labeled as a quality program in Mexico by the PNPC CONACYT accreditation agency. Eventually, Dr. Victor M. Larios participates in a IT council at the CUCEA UdeG Campus (Related to a Business School with 15,000.00 Students) to give the guidelines to support and innovate the Campus IT services. Victor M. Larios is also an IEEE valued member for 17 years and an ACM member for 11 years.