Chuan Hu's Homepage

Welcome to my  Homepage.  I joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, as a tenure-track Associate Professor, in July, 2022. Before that,  I was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks from June 2020 to June 2022. The key research areas in our group are Intelligent Vehicles, Autonomous Driving, Human-Machine Trust and Interactions, and AI applications.  The specific research interests include decision-making, path planning, and motion control of autonomous vehicles, unmanned vehicles, and mobile robots; human-machine interaction, trust dynamics, optimal control, and machine learning applications. 

Research Interests

• Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), and Autonomous Driving;

• Unmanned Vehicles, Mobile Robots, Planetary Rovers, and Multi-Robot Systems;

• Dynamics and Control, Decision-Making, and Path Planning;

• Eco-Driving, and Electric CAV Energy Management/Optimization;

• Reinforcement Learning, Adaptive Dynamic Programming Applications;

• Human-Machine Trust and Interaction, and Shared Control.

Academia Employment

• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 07/2022 to date.

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, U.S., 06/2020 to 06/2022.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, U.S., 08/2018-06/2020.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, 07/2017-07/2018.

Education Background

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, 07/2017.

• M.S., Vehicle Operation Engineering, China Academy of Railway Sciences, China, 07/2013.

• B.S., Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 07/2010.