I received my Ph.D. in Intelligent Transportation Systems from the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Arizona. My main research interests are traffic operations, intelligent transportation systems, machine Learning/causal Inference, big traffic data mining and analysis, and spatial-temporal data forecasting.

I have the membership of the Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Committee of ASCE Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI). I am also a committee member of Paper Review Subcommittee and Communications Subcommittee, TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50). My papers have been awarded the Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting Spotlight of AI Research: Explainable AI (2023), the American Statistical Association TSIG Student Paper Award (2022), the Intelligent Transportation Society 28th Annual Conference Best Paper Award (Arizona, 2021), and the Annual Outstanding Paper Award of the China Institute of Navigation (2015). I have been awarded China National Scholarship (top 0.2%) four times.

News

• 2022/08：My research is featured as 2023 Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting Spotlight of AI Research: Explainable AI.

• 2022/04：I am honored to be featured as one of the National Institute for Transportation and Communities Student Spotlights.

• 2022/03：I am honored to be featured as one of the ITE Mountain District Student Member Spotlights in the Mountain District ITE Quarterly Magazine - The Summit!

• 2022/03：I am honored to receive the Jenny L. Grote Student Leadership Award.This is an individual award meant to recognize students who have made substantial contributions to ITE and/or the transportation industry in Arizona.

• 2022/01：My first author paper “Eliminating the Impacts of Traffic Volume Variation on Before and After Studies: A Causal Inference Approach” was selected for the Honorable Mention Award for the 2022 TSIG Student Paper Competition.

• 2021/12：I’m honored to become a Paper Review Subcommittee Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50).

• 2021/12：I’m honored to become a Communications Subcommittee Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50).

• 2021/12：I was awarded NITC Student Travel Award.

• 2021/12：I was awarded GPSC Student Travel Award.

• 2021/10：I’m honored to become an Associate Committee Member (Student Member) of Artificial Intelligence Committee of ASCE Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI).

• 2021/09：My first author paper “Application of Transfer Learning Technique for Proactive Ramp Metering Performance Assessment” was awarded the ITS Arizona 28th Annual Conference Best Paper Award.

• 2021/09：My second author paper “A Multi-Source Data Approach for Estimating Vehicle Queue Length at Metered On-Ramps “ got accepted by Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems.

• 2021/04：I got the third place award in Student Paper Presentation Contest in 2021 Arizona Students’ Transportation Summit.

• 2020/12：I was awarded NITC Student Travel Award.

• 2020/10：Two papers I submitted to TRB 2021 were accepted for presentation.

• 2020/09：My first author paper “Statistical Evaluation of Data Requirement for Ramp Metering Performance Assessment “ got accepted by Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

• 2020/08：I became an instructor for CE363 (TRANSPORT ENGINEERING AND PAVEMENT DESIGN).

• 2020/08：I was awarded Price, William Scholarship.

• 2020/08：I was awarded Delbert Lewis Graduate Scholarship.

• 2019/12：The ADOT project(SR-51 Adaptive Ramp Metering) I worked on was selected as the runner-up in the best TSMO project category (This competition was held by the National Operations Center of Excellence).

• 2019/12：I was awarded NITC Student Travel Award.

• 2019/10：I became an instructor for AUPP CE363 (TRANSPORT ENGINEERING AND PAVEMENT DESIGN).

• 2019/10：I was employed by American University of Phnom Penh(AUPP) as an adjunct faculty member.

• 2019/10：One paper I submitted to TRB 2020 was accepted for presentation.

• 2019/08：I became a TA for CE363 (TRANSPORT ENGINEERING AND PAVEMENT DESIGN).

• 2019/08：I was awarded NITC Student Travel Award.

• 2019/05：I was awarded Delbert Lewis Graduate Scholarship.

• 2019/05：One paper abstract accepted by Transportation and Communities Summit 2019.

• 2019/01： I was selected as a referee to review manuscripts for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.