Automated driving, mobile robots; autonomous systems and physical AI agents; multimodal sensing, cooperative perception and decision making; vehicle-to-everything, multi-agent systems; roadway digital infrastructure, mobility digital twins; trustworthiness of cyber-physical and intelligent transportation systems; spatial data mining, reasoning, and simulation.  

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• Waymo on Freeways | LAist, February 2025
• “Data in the Desert” hints at the future of autonomous vehicles | ARS Technica, October 2022
• Autonomous Vehicles Can Be Tricked Into Dangerous Driving Behavior | Clean Technica, June 2022
• Autonomous vehicles can be tricked into dangerous driving behavior | Tech Xplore, May 2022

• Ph.D., (2014), University of Virginia
• M.S., (2013), University of Virginia
• B.S., (2008), Beijing Jiaotong University

• 2023: Editor-In-Chief, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems