Mei Chen's involvement with transportation started when she entered the graduate program of Transportation Engineering at Southwest Jiatong University in 1989. After she got her Master’s Degree in Transportation in 1992, she stayed on at the University as a lecturer in Department of Transportation Engineering, where she taught Introduction to Transportation Engineering, Traffic Management and Control, and Urban Light Rail Systems.

Adam Levine, Polytechnic University was selected as the 1999 UTRC student of the year. Adam Levine received a B.S. in Engineering for Princeton University in 1988. In 1989, Adam became a junior engineer in the Long Island office of the New York State Department of Transportation. After working as a designer on projects including the first Lon Island Expressway high occupancy vehicle lanes, Adam received his professional engineer’s license in 1995.