Summary
Lewis Lehe is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at UIUC’s Transportation Systems group with 13 years of experience bridging academic research, data visualization, and applied transit operations. He teaches and researches public transit operations, brings a strong quantitative background (PhD and MS from UC Berkeley, MA in Transport Economics), and applies practical data skills developed as a web developer and data visualizer for projects at Stanford and industry internships. As Treasurer of Findings Press and Communications Officer for the International Transportation Economics Association, he pairs technical expertise with organizational stewardship and public-facing communication. Notably, his career blends rigorous transportation economics with hands-on mapping and visualization work, enabling research that is both methodologically robust and readily interpretable for practitioners.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Civil Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
MA Transport Economics, MA Transport Economics at University of Leeds
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics-Economics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics-Economics at University of Pittsburgh
English, Spanish