Irene Martinez is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Irvine working under the supervision of Prof. Wenlong Jin. Before joining UC Irvine in 2017, she obtained her BSc and MSc in Civil Engineering at UPC BarcelonaTech. She also holds an MSc in Transportation Systems Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (2019). Irene is interested in traffic flow modeling and the mitigation of traffic congestion in the era of autonomous, connected, and shared mobility. Her research work has been published in Transportation Research Part B and Part C journals, and she has presented at the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory 2019, several Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings, and other conferences. Irene has received, among other awards, the "Abertis International Prize for Transportation Research in 2014" and the "Young Researchers TRA VISIONS 2018 Second place award" and several fellowships during her studies.