The Team
Future Mobility Lab's team is multidisciplinary in nature; we work with post-docs, PhD and Master students, which have diverse capabilities and interests such as: transport modelers and engineers, public policy specialists, computer scientists, environmental scientists, planners, and economists.
Team members
Dr. Yedidya Levi
Research Scientist
Yedidya Levi received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees as summa cum laude from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion. Yedidya received his PhD (2017) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion in the special PhD track. His research focused on developing an optimization model for new urban spaces, while considering both the land-use and transportation network configuration. His PhD work was applied to the specific case of artificial islands. Before joining Future Mobility Lab, Yedidya worked as senior data analyst in Mobility Insight (Mobi). During his work there he specialized in the fields of traffic simulation and Big-Data analysis for transportation application.
In the Future Mobility Lab, Yedidya is developing a state-of-the-art simulation environment for the evaluation of transportation and environmental policies. The simulation is used to design and compare different futuristic scenarios in the era of automated vehicles, with different Maas services considering different regulation strategies.
Gabriel Dadashev
Research Engineer
Gabriel (Gabi) Dadashev serves as a Research Engineer at the Future Mobility Lab. He holds a Master's degree in Mathematics and dual Bachelor's degrees, one in Mathematics and Computer Science, and the other in Civil Engineering, all earned at Ariel University in 2021. His expertise spans a broad spectrum, encompassing the construction of pollution models, data analysis, programming, and the calibration of transportation simulation frameworks. He actively engages with advanced platforms like Aimsun Next and SimMobility by MIT.
Serio Agriesti
Ph.D. Student
Serio Agriesti is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with Aalto University under the guidance of Prof. Claudio Roncoli and Dr. Bat-hen Nahmias-Biran. Before starting his doctoral studies, he was a Research Fellow with the Politecnico di Milano, where he focused on the impact assessment of innovative transport systems, such as connected and automated vehicles and truck platooning. He has been involved in multiple European research projects and is part of the EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network. His current research activities focus on agent-based modeling, performance evaluation, and connected and automated driving.
Keren-Or Rosenbaum
Ph.D. Student
Keren-Or Rosenbaum is a Ph.D. Student at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Yoram Shiftan and Dr. Bat-hen Nahmias-Biran. She holds an M.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering, B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management and a B.A. in Economics and Management (summa cum laude), all from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her master thesis dealt with the integration of Systems Dynamics (SD) in Object-Process Methodology ISO 19450 (OPM), for improved model analysis for Health systems. In the last years she was a Data Engineer and Researcher in the Head of Logistics Technology Division, Research and Methods Department.
Giovanni Albano
Ph.D. Student
Giovanni Albano received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Management Engineering from the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II in 2016 and 2019 respectively. In 2020, he joined the European Commission Joint Research Centre, where he worked on the assessment of the impacts of automated vehicles. His research activities supported the EU and UN type-approval process of fully automated vehicles (European Regulation 1426/2022, amendment to UN Regulation 157). He also worked on the design and simulation of demand management strategies to promote sustainable mobility. Giovanni has been awarded the JRC Award for Excellence 2022 in the category Excellence in Research for “Unveiling the real impact of automated vehicles on motorway traffic”. He received the JRC Award for Excellence 2023 in the category Science for Policy for “Open the road to the safety and effective deployment of Automated Vehicles in Europe”. His scientific interests are the modelling and evaluation of cutting-edge technologies in transportation, the simulation of traffic networks and network control, and sustainable and smart mobility. Giovanni is currently a PhD candidate at the Porter School of Environmental Studies of Tel Aviv University, and he is a Visiting Scientist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre.
Eyal Mehoudar
M.A. Student
Eyal, aged 42 and a father of three, with a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Cognitive Psychology. He is currently pursuing an MA in Environmental Studies, reflecting his dedication to addressing the climate crisis. His professional journey includes working in a family office where he integrates his understanding of climate change into portfolio management. Eyal's interest extends to leveraging technology for traffic flow management, aiming to reduce GHG emissions from road transport.