Summary
Nate Bailey is a transportation researcher and strategic initiatives manager with 12 years of experience applying operations research to urban mobility challenges, currently leading strategic initiatives at WMATA in Washington, D.C. He holds an M.S. from MIT and UC Berkeley and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation, where his work has focused on the system-level impacts of automated vehicles and dynamic ridesharing under travel-time uncertainty. Nate combines rigorous simulation and optimization skills—agent-based modeling, random utility models, and simulation-based signal timing optimization—with hands-on data engineering from prior work at Caltrans and MIT. He translates academic findings into actionable transit policy and business value for agency partners, with a track record of designing surveys, building analytic tools, and publishing results. Colleagues know him for bridging deep technical methods and pragmatic implementation in large public-sector mobility systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Graduated with High Honors, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Graduated with High Honors at University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Transportation, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Transportation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mission San Jose High School