Group Alumni

Zhe Xu received his Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His outstanding achievements have been passed on from generation to generation in our group.

Dissertation title: Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram Estimation Based on Connected Vehicle Data

Xia Wan received her Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. She is currently a technical lead of the data warehouse team at Globalfoundires- world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers.

Dissertation title: Modeling Freeway Merging as a Sequential Decision-Making Process

Xiaoxuan Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. Currently, he is a staff scientist at Nauto.ai, focusing on driving safety and autonomy.

Dissertation title: Data-Driven Based Online System for Dynamic People Flow Prediction in Large Network Using Cellular Data

Fan Ding received the Ph. D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2017, and the M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Transportation, Southeast University, China. His main research interests include traffic big data analysis, learning-based traffic modeling, and proactive traffic control.

Qing Li received the Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2017, and the M.S. degrees in Computer Science in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently an engineer leader at TikTok (Bytedance) Inc, and previously worked at Facebook and BMW Technology Corporation with 7 patents in connected driving areas.

Shen Li received a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2018. He is a research associate at Tsinghua University. His research is about Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Architecture Design of CAVH System, Vehicle-infrastructure Cooperative Planning and Decision Method, Traffic Data Mining based on Cellular Data, and Traffic Operations and Management.

Yang Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, and the M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in civil engineering, UW-Madison. His main research directions are connected automated vehicles robust control, interconnected system stability analysis, traffic big data analysis, and microscopic traffic flow modeling.

Zhen Zhang received Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering in 2019 and M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2015 from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working as Research Scientist at Meta Platforms, Inc.

Dissertation title: Deep Long Short-Term Memory Network Embedded Connected Automated Car-Following Model Predictive Control Strategy

Xiaotian Li received his Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. He is currently a Researcher at SenseAuto.

Dissertation title: Simulation and Characterization of Complex Mixed Traffic Behavior

Shuoxuan Dong received his Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering in 2021 and M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2019 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working as Research Scientist at Meta Platforms, Inc.

Dissertation title: On the Use of Generative Adversarial Network for Anomaly Detection in Automated Driving Systems

Tianyi Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. He is currently a Postdoc Research Associate at UW-Madison. His research interests include distributed control of the connected automated vehicle, macroscopic traffic state estimation, architecture design for automated driving system.

Chun-Wei Lin joined the CAVH group in Spring 2020. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Fall 2021.

Dissertation title: Mode Choice Analysis and Prediction of Trip Chaining Behavior: Using Multinomial Logit Model and Validating with Neural Network Machine Learning

Zimin Sun (Michael) received his Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. He is actively working to bring safe and exciting autonomous vehicles on the road in the Volkswagen Group.

Dissertation title: Freeway Capacity analysis with L3 automated driving

Nanicha Subhanka (Now) received her Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. She is currently working at the Department of Highways, Thailand.

Dissertation title: Impact of Level 3 Automated Vehicle Merging on 2-to-1 Lane Freeway

Nutvara Jantarathaneewat (Goo) received her Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019. She is currently working at the Department of Rural Roads of Thailand.

Dissertation title: Efficiency Evaluation of Passing Lane Configurations on Dedicated Lane for Autonomous Vehicle Level 3

Xiaodan Zhang received her Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019. She is currently working at T.Y. Lin international as a transportation planning and designing specialist.

Han Cao received his Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. He is currently working in Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center as an intelligent transportation engineer.

Dissertation title: Safety Analysis For Commercial Autonomous Vehicle Car Following

Chatcharin Boonjaroenkit received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021.

Dissertation title: Impact of the dedicated lane configuration at the work zone for traffic involved with level 3 automated vehicle on 3-to-2 lane drop freeway

Yangxin Lin received Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Peking University in 2021. He was a visiting Student at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019. He is currently working at Kuaishou.

Yanghui Mo was a visiting Student at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 and received a Ph.D. degree in 2021 at Wuhan University of Technology. She is currently a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Her research interests are transport planning, Vehicle-infrastructure cooperative planning and management.

Leyu Wei received her Ph.D degree in Highway College from Chang’an University in 2020. She was offered by CAST to visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 from June to November. Now she is working with consulting services and technical research of CVIS. Her research is about ITS, CVIS, road alignment design, emergency evacuation, traffic operation and management, driver’s behavior psychology.

Yumeng Xie received a Ph.D. degree at Wuhan University of Technology, in 2022 and the M.A. degree in Bangor University. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. His research is about Fuzzy prediction, Data-path Optimization, Traffic Operations and Management.