Jane Macfarlane holds a joint appointment at the UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She directs the Smart Cities Research Center in the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCB. Her research focuses on geospatial data analytics, large-scale transportation simulation, and the application of artificial intelligence to mobility systems.
Dr. Macfarlane brings over 30 years of experience spanning academia, national laboratory research, and industry. She served as Chief Scientist at HERE Technologies, a global leader in mapping and location data; Director of Advanced Technology Planning for OnStar at General Motors, one of the first at-scale telematics deployments; and Vice President of Process Engineering at Imara, a lithium-ion battery startup. Earlier in her career she held research positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in high-performance computing and scientific simulation of industry-wide supply chains and served as a lead controls engineer for the Advanced Laser Isotope Separation Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Her work spans the full stack from data infrastructure to applied analytics - including most recently large-scale traffic simulation (Mobiliti) using high-performance computing, mobile device data analysis, and geospatial trajectory modeling. She holds over 31 granted patents in the United States and Europe, primarily in geospatial data analytics, traffic prediction, and mapping technologies.
Dr. Macfarlane received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.