Lab Team

Postdoc Researchers

• Haotian Shi, UW-Madison, April 2023 – April 2025; Currently a Tenured Associate Professor at Tongji University.

• Zhiwei Chen, USF, January 2021 – December 2022; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at Drexel University.
• Handong Yao, USF, July 2020 – September 2022; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at University of Georgia.
• Hongqiang Fan, USF, October 2015 – December 2016; Currently a faculty at Beijing Post and Telecommunications University.
• Yanqian Wang, USF, November 2015 – November 2016.
• Mohsen Parsafard, September 2017 – October 2017.

PhD Graduates

• Saeid Soleimaniamiri, August 2017 – May 2022; Dissertation Title: Designing Control Strategies For Connected And Automated Vehicles (Cavs) At Transportation Conflict Areas; Currently a Transportation Research Analyst at Leidos, Inc.
• Runan Yang (female), August 2017 – May 2022; Dissertation Title: High-Risk Traffic Crash Pattern Recognition and Identification Using Econometric Models and Machine Learning Models; Currently a Data Scientist at Innova Partners.
• Qianwen Li (female), USF, Fall – May 2022; Dissertation Title: Trajectory Planning for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Platooning and Split Operations: Modeling and Experiments; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia.
• Xiaowei Shi, USF, August 2018 – December 2021; Dissertation Title: Impacts of Automated Vehicle Technologies on Future Traffic; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
• Dongfang Zhao, USF, August 2016 – May 2021; Dissertation Title: Electric Vehicle Fleet Management in Transportation and Power Systems.
• Zhiwei Chen, USF, August 2017 – December 2020; Dissertation Title: Design Next-generation Transportation Systems with Emerging Vehicle Technologies; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at Drexel University.
• Wang Yu (female), USF, August 2015 – December 2010; Dissertation Title: Trajectory Based Traffic Analysis and Control Utilizing Connected Autonomous Vehicles; Currently a Technical Staff at Plus.
• Amir Ghiasi, USF, August 2014 – August 2018; Dissertation Title: Connected Autonomous Vehicles: Capacity Analysis, Trajectory Optimization, and Speed Harmonization; Currently work at Leidos, Inc, at the TFHRC Saxton Lab.
• Mohsen Parsafard, USF, August 2013 – August 2017; Dissertation Title: Space-Time Transportation System Modelling: from Traveler’s Characteristics to the Network Design Problem; Currently work at Coyote, Inc.
• Yi Wen, (co-advised with Dr. Zhang Li at MSU), MSU, Spring 2012 – Spring 2015; Engineer in the Virginia Department of Transportation.

MS Graduates

• Hossein Amiri, May 2021; Thesis Title: Longitudinal Trajectory Tracking Analysis for Autonomous Electric Vehicles Based on PID Control
• Brian Staes (co-advised with Dr. Robert Bertini), December 2020; Thesis Title: Diagnosis of Freeway Bottlenecks During the Mass Evacuation for Hurricane Irma on Florida’s Turnpike Mainline
• Gangyan Zhang, Fall 2018 – December 2019; Thesis Title: Impact of the Number of Lane-Changing Times on Throughput by Fundamental Diagram Based on NGSIM Data
• Zhiwei Chen, August 2017 – August 2019; Thesis Title: Exploring the Equity Performance of Bike-Sharing Systems with Disaggregated Data: A Story of Southern Tampa
• Fang Zhou (female), MSU, January 2014 – August 2015 (female; Software Engineer in Leidos Inc. after graduation)
• Jin Wang (female), MSU, August 2012 – August 2014 (female; PhD Student at Auburn University after graduation)

Undergraduate Researchers

• Oleksandr Lisnichenko, Computer Science and Engineering, USF, Spring 2020 – Spring 2021
• Kyle Finch, Mechanical Engineering, USF, Spring 2019 – present
• Tyler Brown, Computer Science and Engineering, USF, Spring 2019– December 2020
• Miracle Oluchi Anyachukwu, CEE, USF, Summer 2017 (female; African American)
• Sabrina Mamo, CEE, USF, Spring 2017 (female; Latino)
• Kamal Taha, CEE, USF, Spring 2017
• John Green, CEE, MSU, Spring 2015 (African American)
• Heather Hart, CEE, MSU, 2014-2015 (female)
• Samantha Frederick, CEE, MSU, 2013 (female)
• Patrick Kuykendall, CEE, MSU, 2013

Visiting students

UW-Madison

• Wang Chen, PhD Student, Hong kong University, August 2024 – January 2025

• Jinbiao Huo, PhD Student, Southeast University, January 2024 – January 2025

• Yuqin Zhang, PhD Student, Chang’an University, January 2024 – January 2025

• Tiancheng Ruan, PhD Student, Southeast University, February 2023 – February 2025

USF

• Zhen Wang, PhD Student, Chang’an University, February 2019 – February 2020
• Jun Du, PhD Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, October 2018 – October 2019
• Mingyang Pei, PhD Student, South China University of Technology, October 2018 – October 2019
• Handong Yao, PhD Student, Harbin Institute of Technology, September 2017 – July 2020
• Lina Ma, PhD Student, Harbin Institute of Technology, December 2016 – December 2017
• Lifen Yun, Instructor, Beijing Jiaotong University,  October 2015 – December 2016 
• Zeng Lu, PhD Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, November 2016 – June 2017
• Yan Xu, PhD Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, September 2015 – September 2016 

MSU

• Lifen Yun, Graduate Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, April 2013 – April 2014 
• Jiaqi Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia, April 2014 – June 2014

Visiting Scholars

UW-Madison

• Ruru Hao, Associate Professor, Chang‘an University, Fall 2022 – Fall 2023

USF

• Jie Xiong, Lecturer, Beijing University of Technology, Spring 2019 – Spring 2020 
• Jin Zhang , Associate Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Fall 2015 – Fall 2016 
• Tao Wang, Associate Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Fall 2015 – Fall 2016 

MSU

• Junqiang Leng, Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Fall 2014– Fall 2015 
• Wendong Yang , Associate Professor, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fall 2013– Fall 2014