Graff Awarded K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship
CEE PhD student Lindsay Graff was recently awarded the K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship. Graff earned her Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering undergraduate degree from Princeton University is currently working with CEE professors Sean Qian and Katherine Flanigan. Her research is centered on optimizing mobility subsidies and network investments within multi-modal transportation networks, a timely focus as cities increasingly invest in diverse transportation options like bike-share, e-scooters, and carshare to complement traditional public transit routes.
“Mobility infrastructure is not always fairly distributed across neighborhoods due to biases in formulating network design problems,” says Graff. “With the support of this fellowship, I will continue to think about designing networks more equitably to ensure that we’re properly accounting for the transportation needs of all communities."
The K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship supports up to three doctoral students every year whose studies relate to the field of ethics and computational science and technology; their work often asks how humans interact with technology, how we foresee and respond to the unintended consequences of our work, and how we ensure that technology is used to benefit humanity, individually and as a society. The Fellowship is part of the $10 million gift to establish the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies and other endowed funds at Carnegie Mellon University.