Staff
Eric Lind, Director
Phone: 612-625-1510
Email: elind@umn.edu
Eric Lind is the director of Accessibility Observatory. In this role, he provides leadership, direction, and strategic management to the Observatory and oversees its research and outreach activities.
Andrew Owen, Lead Researcher
Phone: 612-624-7550
Email: aowen@umn.edu
Andrew Owen is the lead researcher at the Accessibility Observatory and a researcher in the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies. Owen’s work focuses on building and applying systems for collecting, calculating, analyzing, and communicating data describing transportation systems. At the Accessibility Observatory, he leads the development and maintenance of tools to calculate nationwide, multimodal accessibility to a variety of destination types. Owen manages all Observatory projects and leads its research team. Owen joined the field of transportation research following a career in computer science and network security, and holds master’s degrees in civil engineering and in urban and regional planning.
Saumya Jain, Researcher
Phone: 612-624-7893
Email: jain0222@umn.edu
Shirley Shiqin Liu, Researcher
Phone: 612-626-4052
Email: liux4444@umn.edu