Curriculum Vitae

CV in PDF

Education

• Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering (fast-tracked to Ph.D. program in 2022), McGill University, Canada, 2020 - 2026 (expected).
  • Dissertation: From Micro Interactions to Traffic Flow: Stochastic Driver Models for Realistic Traffic Simulation (Advisor: Prof. Lijun Sun)
• B.S. in Automobile Engineering, Chongqing University, China, 2015 - 2019.
  • Thesis: Recognition of Multi-Vehicle Interaction Patterns Based on Probabilistic Velocity Fields (Advisor: Prof. Zhenfei Zhan) (Outstanding Thesis Award)

Academic Experiences

• Visiting Student Researcher, supervised by Prof. Changliu Liu @ Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, US, 2023.
• Visiting Student Researcher, supervised by Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka @ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, US, 2019 - 2020.
• Deep Learning Summer Camp (DeeCamp) student @ Sinovation Ventures, China, 2019 and 2020. We won Outstanding Team Award and Best Application Award.
• Visiting Student Researcher, supervised by Prof. Ding Zhao @ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, US, 2018.
• Exchange Student @ University of Pennsylvania, US, 2018.
• Member of CQU-FSAE Transmission Group @ Chongqing University Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), China, 2016 - 2018.

Leadership & Services

• (Co-)Chair/(Co-)Ornaizer
  • Organizer of the 2nd SIAM workshop on IEEE IV24’, Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea, 2024.
  • Organizer of the 1st SIAM workshop on IEEE IV23’, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2023.
• Program Committee
  • Symposium on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving collocated with NeurIPS’23 [Link]
• Reviewer
  • Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
  • Journal: Transportation Science
  • Journal: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Journal: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Journal: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Journal: Artificial Intelligence for Transportation
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • Journal: IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Journal: Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Journal: ASME Journal of Mechanism and Robotics
  • Journal: ASME Journal of Mechanism Design
  • Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Journal: Automotive Innovation
  • Journal: Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • Journal: Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
  • Journal: Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Conference: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 22-24
  • Conference: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 23-24
  • Conference: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Conference: NeurIPS Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty Workshop, 2024
  • Conference: Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS), 2024
  • Conference: RSS 2024 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales (AVAS), 2024
  • Conference: International Symposium on Transportation Data & Modelling (ISTDM), 2025
• Memberships
  • IEEE Graduate Student member
  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Student member
  • Student Member of Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les reseaux d’entreprise, la logistique et le transport, CIRRELT)
  • Student member of Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA)
  • Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) of China

Honors, Fellowships & Recognition

• The Honorable Mention Award for the 2024 Clifford Spiegelman Student Paper Competition, 2024 [Link]
• Graduate Mobility Award, McGill University, CAD $9,000, 2022-2023
• Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Awards, McGill University, 2023
• Ron Rice Memorial Award, McGill University, 2023
• Mitacs Globalink Research Award - Abroad, CAD $6,000, 2022-2023
• McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA), McGill University, CAD $111,000, 2022-2025
• FRQNT Master’s Scholarship (B1X), CAD $17,500, 2022-2023 [Link]
• FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship (B2X), CAD $100,000, 2023-2027 [Link]
• CIRRELT Doctoral Scholarship of Excellence - Final Stages, CAD $7,500, 2025 [Link]
• CIRRELT Doctoral Scholarship of Excellence - Early Stages, CAD $4,000, 2023 [Link]
• CIRRELT Master’s Scholarship of Excellence, CAD $3,500, 2022
• Graduate Excellence Fellowship Awards, McGill University, 2020
• IVADO Excellence Scholarships - Msc, CAD $40,000, 2020-2022
• Outstanding Team Award & Best Application Award at DeeCamp, China, 2019
• Outstanding Graduate of Chongqing University, 2019
• First Prize, 2018 National College Mechanical Innovation Competition (TOP #10 in China), 2018
• First Prize, 2017 China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2017
• National Scholarship, China, 2017
• First Prize, 2015 Chongqing University Physics Contest (#1/500+ in Chongqing University), 2015 (As a first-year undergraduate)