Members

Dr. Cheng received his Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. His research areas include automated highway and driving systems, mobile traffic sensor modeling, large-scale transportation data management and analytics, and traffic operations and control.

Dr. Parker received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. He is the IT Program Manager of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory (TOPS lab) and Database Administrator for the WisTransPortal archived data management system.

Andrea Bill received her M.S. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Traffic Safety Engineer Research Program Manager in Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory (TOPS lab).

Steve Rau is TransPortal Systems Administrator for Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory (TOPS Lab).

Shawn Leight is Vice President and COO at CBB. Shawn oversees day-to-day project delivery for a wide range of transportation services and clients. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Master of Science in Transportation Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Kunsong Shi joined the CAVH group in Fall 2017. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin Madison. His main research directions are connected and automated vehicle highway, data-driven lane change prediction, data-driven vehicle trajectory prediction, deep reinforcement learning vehicle control, and deep learning.

Ran Yi joined the CAVH group in 2018 Spring. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin Madison. His main research directions are connected automated vehicles control and intelligent transportation system operation.

Haotian Shi joined the CAVH group in 2019 Spring. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received triple M.S. degrees in Power and Machinery Engineering (Tianjin University, 2020), Civil and Environmental Engineering (UW-Madison, 2020), and Computer Science (UW-Madison, 2022). His main research directions are prediction & control of connected automated vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, crash data analysis, and deep reinforcement learning.

Huyao Wu joined the CAVH group in 2019 Spring. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin Madison. His main research directions are connected and automated vehicle highway, vehicle motion control, decision-making and trajectory optimization.

Keshu Wu joined the CAVH group in Fall 2019. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received an M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 and an M.S. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. His main research directions include the application and innovation of machine learning and deep learning techniques in intelligent transportation systems and connected automated vehicles highway.

Yifan Yao joined the CAVH group in 2019 Fall. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at, University of Wisconsin Madison. Her main research directions are connected automated vehicles highway, cooperative connected automated vehicles planning, and crash data analysis.

Sicheng Fu joined the CAVH group in 2019 Fall. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research directions are connected vehicles highway, early warning signals, vehicle trajectory prediction, and crash data analysis.

Rei Tamaru joined the CAVH group in Fall 2021. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research directions are the development of the connected system in urban cities and the intelligent transportation system operating adaptively with data-driven capability.

Jingwen Zhu joined the CAVH group in 2021 spring. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is engaged in research into the impact of various weather conditions on Connected and Automated Vehicle Highways.

Sixu Li joined the CAVH group in Fall 2022. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research directions include the application and innovation of optimization, control theory and deep reinforcement learning techniques in connected automated vehicles highway.

Junwei You joined the CAVH group in 2022 Fall. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin Madison. His main research directions are connected and automated vehicles highway, deep learning and the application of econometric theories in intelligent transportation systems.

Hanif Nurindra Nazaroedin joined the CAVH group in Fall 2022. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Yuan Xu joined the CAVH group in 2020 fall. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is engaged in research into autonomous driving simulation under different weather conditions.

Rui Gan joined the CAVH group in 2023 Spring. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in traffic engineering from Southeast University in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His main research directions are traffic flow and vehicle microscopic behavior prediction, connected automated vehicle control, intelligent transportation systems, and traffic data analysis.

Kexin Tian joined the CAVH group in the Fall 2022. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is interested in the application of deep reinforcement learning in connected automated vehicles highway.

Joe Oliveira Joined the CAVH group in the fall of 2022. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW-Madison. He received his bachelor from UW-Madison in 2019 and has been working on roadway construction since then. He is interested in how to improve safety and performance of CAV interaction with construction work zones.

Xinmeizi Cai joined the CAVH group in fall 2022. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW-Madison. She is interested in transportation and urban planning to build intelligent cities.