I-NUF 2025 Program Committee Co-Chairs
| Marlon Boarnet | Director, METRANS Transportation Consortium; Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California |
| Maged Dessouky | Dean’s Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Southern California |
I-NUF 2025 Organizing Committee
| Marlon Boarnet | Director, METRANS Transportation Center; Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California |
| Maged Dessouky | Dean’s Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California; Associate Director of Programs, METRANS, University of Southern California |
| Tom O’Brien | Associate Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education, California State University, Long Beach |
| Tyler Reeb | Executive Director, Center for International Trade & Transportation, California State University, Long Beach |
I-NUF 2025 Track Chairs
| Topic 1 – Local / last mile pickup and delivery | Laetitia Dablanc, Ph.D., Professor, LVMT Center of Cities, Mobility, Transport, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France |
| Topic 2 – Demand management and spatial analysis | Alison Conway, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of New York Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Maritime Business Administration, Texas A&M University of Galveston |
| Topic 3 – Freight modeling and planning | Maged Dessouky, Ph.D., Dean’s Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Southern California |
| Topic 4 – Technology and automation | Petros Ioannou, Ph.D., A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Chair; University Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of California; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Souther California Ketan Savia, Ph.D., John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering; Associate Professor, Viterbi School o f Engineering, University of Southern California |
| Topic 5 – Sustainability | Marlon Boarnet, Ph.D., Director, METRANS Transportation Center; Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D., Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government; Distinguished Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. |
| Topic 6 – Best practices / Case studies | Thomas O’Brien, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education, California State University, Long Beach |
| Topic 7 – Labor issues and workforce development | Tyler Reeb, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for International Trade & Transportation, California State University, Long Beach |
I-NUF 2025 Program Committee
| Johanna Amaya | Assistant Professor in Supply Chain & Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University |
| Jeff Ban | William M. and Marilyn M. Conner Endowed Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington |
| Matt Barth | Yeager Families Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside (invited) |
| Adrien Beziat | Senior Researcher, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France |
| David Bierling | TTI Senior Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University System (invited) |
| Paul Bingham | Director, Transportation Consulting, Economics and Country Risk, S&P Global Market Intelligence (invited) |
| Kanok Boriboonsomsin | Research Engineer, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California at Riverside |
| Michael Browne | Professor, Industrial and Financial Management and Logistics, University of Gothenburg (invited) |
| John Carlsson | Kellner Family Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California |
| Anastasios Chasskiakos | Professor, Electrical Engineering and CECS, Department of Engineering, California State University, Long Beach (invited) |
| Joseph Chow | Institute Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, New York University |
| Ivan Diaz | Associate Professor, Division of Supply and Operations Management, Chalmers University of Technology |
| William Eisele | Mobility Practice Leader and Senior Research Engineer, Texas Transportation Institute |
| Dominik Englert | Economist, Transport Global Practice, World Bank |
| Anne Goodchild | Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington |
| Noel Hacegaba | Chief Operating Officer of the Port of Long Beach |
| Daniel Hackett | Partner, Hackett Associates LLC (invited) |
| Peter V Hall | Professor, Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University |
| Jolene Hayes | Senior Associate, Fehr & Peers |
| Szu Hui | Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, National University of Singapore |
| Nathan Huynh | Keith W. Klaasmeyer Chair of Engineering and Technology; Director, Nebraska Transportation Center; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska- Lincoln (invited) |
| Randell Iwasaki | President and CEO, Iwasaki Consulting Services |
| Hossein Jula | Lecturer, College of Engineering, California State University, Long Beach |
| Evangelos Kaisar | Chair and Executive Director, FMRI & MITSL; Professor, Department of Civil , Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University |
| Kazuya Kawamura | Professor, College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago (invited) |
| Karl Kim | Director, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center; Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Charles Kunaka | Lead Specialist on Connectivity, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment, World Bank |
| Jee Lee | Associate Research Fellow, Division of Logistics Technology and Freight Transport Market Research, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) (invited) |
| David Libatique | Deputy Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Port of Los Angeles (invited) |
| Tejada Carla Lopez | Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Alan McKinnon | Honorary Senator; Professor of Logistics, Kuehne Logistics University (invited) |
| Qiang Meng | Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore; Director, NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute (NUS-GRTII) |
| Annie Nam | Manager, Goods Movement & Transportation Finance, Southern California Association of Governments |
| Seckin Ozkul | Assistant Professor, Director, Supply Chain Innovation Lab, University of South Florida |
| Chew Ek Peng | Director, Centre of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation for Next Generation Ports (C4NGP), National University of Singapore |
| Jolanda Prozzi | Transportation Planning Market Leader, Jacobs (invited) |
| Heleen Buldeo Rai | Assistant Professor, Mobilise Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) |
| Fatemeh Ranaiefer | Transportation Planner/Engineer, Senior Associate Fehr & Peers |
| Binyam (Ben) Reja | Acting Global Director, Transport Global Practice, World Bank |
| Steve Ritchie | Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine |
| Matthew Roorda | Professor, Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto |
| Takanori Sakai | Associate Professor, Department of Logistics and Information Engineering, School of Marine Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT) |
| Sangbeom Seo | Director, Division for Logistics Policy & Industry, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) |
| Avin Sharma | Senior Director of Workforce and Government Affairs for the Port of Los Angeles (invited) |
| Sushant Sharma | Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Texas A&M University |
| Eric Shen | Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice, University of Southern California |
| Laurent Tavasszy | Professor, Freight Transport and Logistics, Delft University of Technology |
| Desmond Tay | Regional Director (Americas), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore |
| Thierry Vanelslander | BNP Paribas Chair on Transport, Logistics and Ports, Department of Transport and Regional Logistics, University of Antwerp |
| Jose Holguin Veras | Director, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment; and the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Sönke von Wieding | Lecturer, School of Engineering, Zurich University of Applied Sciences |
| Jeff Wojtowicz | Senior Research Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Johan Woxenius | Professor, Maritime Transport Management and Logistics, Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg |
| Erica Wygonik | Vice President, Northeast Region, Wall Consultant Group (WCG) |
| Hugo Yoshizaki | Associate Professor, Center for Innovation In Logistics Systems, University of Sao Paulo |
| Quan (Jack) Yuan | Associate Professor, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University |