Full CV
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Education
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Transportation Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Aug 2019 - June 2024
- Advisor: Professor Bin Ran
- Thesis Topic: A Learning-based Integrated Framework of Motion Prediction and Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles: Towards Interaction, Multi-Modality, and Relational Reasoning.
MS in Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Jan 2020 - May 2022
MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Advanced Infrastructure Systems
Carnegie Mellon University | Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
B.Eng in Civil Engineering
Southeast University | Aug 2013 - Jun 2017
Academic Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Texas A&M University | Aug 2024 - Present
- Designed campus digital twin systems for human activities and vehicle mobility.
- Designed digital twin systems for vehicle safety analysis and environment interaction analysis.
- Developed hypergraph-based group-wise dynamic interaction-aware with relational reasoning for motion generation and planning of multi-agent systems.
- Developed explainable and generalizable relational reasoning for multi-agent interaction.
- Developed spatial-temporal multi-modal data fusion and imputation frameworks.
Research Assistant
CAVH Research Group & Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sept 2019 - Aug 2024
Project Assistant
Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sept 2019 - Aug 2024
- Manager: Dr. Steven T. Parker.
- Developed the data pipe of the City of Madison Connected Vehicle Corridor Project.
- Evaluated the performance of C-V2X in urban environments.
- Designed a digital twin for the connected vehicle corridor.
- Enhanced algorithms and data processing of WisTransPortal V-SPOC Traffic Detector Database.
- Upgraded web-based tools for efficient V-SPOC traffic data analysis and extraction.
Academic Services
Project Leader
CAVH Research Group | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022CARLA Research Project: Simulation of the Collaborative Automated Driving Systems
Teaching Assistant
Civil and Environmental Engineering | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Spring 2020 - Spring 2022
- CEE 678 Advanced Traffic Modeling and Computer Simulation
- CEE 579 Seminar-Transportation Engineering
Course Grader
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Carnegie Mellon University | Spring 2018 - Fall 2018
- CEE 12-741 Data Management
- CEE 12-638 Behavior of Structural Systems
Journal and Conference Review
Peer Review Journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Network Magazine
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
- Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
- The Journal of Supercomputing
- International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
- Knowledge and Information Systems
- Applied Intelligence
- Transportation Research Board
- Smart Cities
- Applied Sciences
Conferences:
- Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting
- The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025): Workshop on Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle, and Efficacy
- IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2025): The First Workshop on Out-of-Label Hazards in Autonomous Driving
- The AHLI Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL 2025)
- The 8th Edition of the Graph Signal Processing Workshop (GSP 2025)
- The 5th International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET'25)
- The 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA 2025)
- 1st International Conference on Green Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications (GreenAI-2025)
Academic Society Affiliations
- Guest Editor of Electronics - Special Issue: Advanced Control Technologies for Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicles
- Affiliate Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS)
Skills
- Python
- Java
- MATLAB
- SQL
- Julia
- C#
- html
- JavaScript
- C
- Pytorch
- TensorFlow
- Keras
- scikit-learn
- numpy
- pandas
- opencv-python
- Django
- Pytorch Geometric
- CARLA
- SUMO
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle SQL Developer
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- ArcGIS
- Rhino
- Grasshopper