I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS) at the University of Arizona. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in June 2024 under the mentorship of Dr. Raphael E. Stern. I received an MSc degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2018 and a BSc degree in Civil Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2017.

My research focuses on heterogeneous driving behavior, traffic modeling for connected and automated vehicles, transportation cyber-physical systems, and transportation data analytics. Please find my publications on my Google Scholar.

News and Updates

• Jan. 2024: Our paper, ‘‘A Two-Condition Continuous Asymmetric Car-Following Model for Adaptive Cruise Control Vehicles,’’ was published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Early access can be found here.
• Nov. 2023: I received the 2023 ITS Minnesota Educational Scholarship from ITS Minnesota
• Oct. 2023: I presented the joint work with Dr. Shian Wang, ‘‘Analytical characterization of cyberattacks on adaptive cruise control vehicles’’, at the Fall 2023 CEGE Transportation Seminar, Minneapolis, MN
• Sep. 2023: I presented my work ‘‘Capacity implications of personalized adaptive cruise control’’ at the 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain
• Jun. 2023: I presented my work ‘‘Impacts of mixed autonomy traffic flow with adaptive cruise control vehicles on fuel consumption and emissions’’ at the 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), Nice, France
• May. 2023: I received the Matthew J. Huber Award from the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) at the University of Minnesota
• Apr. 2023: I received the 2023-24 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Minnesota
• Jan. 2023: I presented my work ‘‘Modeling adaptive cruise control vehicle dynamics: A two-condition continuous asymmetric car-following model’’ at the 2023 Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC