Projects

Projects as Principal Investigator (PI)

• Mixed Traffic Flow Modeling, Control and Optimization in a Connected and Automated Environment - Science Fund Program for Excellent Young Scientists - NSFC (2025-2028)
• Traffic Physical World Model Construction for Transportation Agent Training and Optimization - NSFC General Program - NSFC (2027–2030)
• Analysis of Interaction Behaviors of Autonomous Vehicles and Assessment of Their Impact on Road Traffic Performance - Young Scientists Fund (C Class) - NSFC (2026-2028)
• Human–Machine Interaction for Autonomous Driving - Shanghai “Morning Light” Young Scholars Program - Shanghai Municipal Education Commission（2026-2027）
• Tongji University Young Talent Program (Category A) – High-Level Talent Research Project: “Assessment, Testing, and Decision Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles” (2026–2029)
• Cooperative Project with Chongqing University of Technology (2025-2026)
• Cooperative Project with Chongqing Vocational and Technical University of Mechatronics (2026-2027)

Currently Participated Projects

• National Key R&D Program “Key Special Project on Transportation Equipment and Intelligent Transportation Technology” — Autonomous Transportation System Computing Technology (2023-2027)
• Ministry of Education Pilot Project on Disciplinary Breakthroughs in Autonomous Driving and Transportation (2025-2029)
• NSFC Excellent Research Group Project on Intelligent Control of Autonomous Driving Traffic (2025-2029)
• Shenzhen Intelligent City Group Transportation Vertical Domain Foundation Model Project (2026-2027)
• Technical Collaboration Project on Hierarchical Vehicle–Infrastructure Cooperative Optimization Based on Model Predictive Control, Huawei (2026–2027)
• Development and Validation of a Virtual Subjective Evaluation System for Intelligent Driving, Geely (2026-2027)
• Flight Crew Fatigue State Monitoring, COMAC (2026-2027)

Previously Participated Projects

• Rural Autonomous Vehicle Research Program. US. DOT.
• Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Tools for Vehicle Automation. FHWA. Project Manager.
• Realistic Autonomous Vehicle Behavior Investigation for Stakeholder Empowerment. FHWA.
• CPS: Small: NSF-DST: Turning “Tragedy of the Commons (ToC)” into “Emergent Cooperative Behavior (ECB)” for Automated Vehicles at Intersections with Meta-Learning.
• WisTransPortal Maintenance, Planning, and Enhancements: MSN215169, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, $475,000 (Research Assistant)
• Wisconsin Statewide Crash Mapping and Analysis Phase 5: MSN217992, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $361,632 (Research Assistant)
• Wisconsin DOT TMC Software Phase 4 - NG ATMS Stage 2 Engineering Support: MSN219900, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $300,000 (Research Assistant)
• WisTransPortal Maintenance, Planning, and Enhancements: MSN231699, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $525,000 (Research Assistant)
• Snow Plow Route Optimization: MSN237025, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $75,000 (Research Assistant)
• WisTransPortal Maintenance, Planning, and Enhancements: MSN252342, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $515,000 (Research Assistant)
• WisTransPortal Maintenance, Planning, and Upgrades: MSN267552, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $515,000 (Research Assistant)
• Wisconsin DOT ATMS Systems Engineering Support: MSN268295, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation, $35,000 (Research Assistant)
• Wisconsin TRCC Traffic Records Data Warehouse: MSN276255, with Wisconsin Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, $120,000 (Research Assistant)
• Cooperative R&D of Bus Operation Robust Control System Based on Accurate Information of Computational Vision, International Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, June 2020 - December 2022, 2.27 Million RMB (Participant). Conduct research.
• PFI-DI Gasoline Engine Performance Research, a Cooperative Project of Tianjin University and United Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. (Project Assistant).