About Mingjian Wu

Beginning in January 2020, Mingjian started his Ph.D career under the supervision of Dr. Tae J. Kwon after successfully defending his M.Sc thesis in December 2019. His M.Sc thesis research was on quantifying the safety effects of driver feedback sign (DFS) and its location allocation strategies under the co-supervision of Dr. Kwon and Dr. El-Basyouny. He completed his undergraduate studies in Hebei University of Engineering in China where he obtained his BEng in 2017 before coming to the University of Alberta's Transportation Engineering Department.  

Master of Science Degree

• Date of Defence: December 16, 2019

• Thesis topic: Evaluating the Safety Effects of Driver Feedback Signs and Citywide Implementation Strategies 

Education

• M.Sc (2019) in Transportation Engineering from the University of Alberta

• B.Eng (2017) in Civil Engineering at Hebei University of Engineering

Research Interests

• ITS infrastructure Location and Allocation Optimization

• Collision Modelling and Statistical Analysis

• Artificial Intelligence Application in Transportation

Academic Events

• Attended the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 100th Annual Meeting from the 21st to 29th of January 2021 virtually and presented two posters and one lectern presentation on my research.

• Attended the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 99th Annual Meeting from the 13th to 17th of January 2020, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center,  in Washington, D.C. and presented two posters on my research. 

Publications

• Wu, M., El-Basyouny, K., Kwon, T. J. (2019). Before-and-After Empirical Bayes Evaluation of Citywide Installation of Driver Feedback Signs.  Accepted for presentation and recommended for publication at the 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2020.

• Wu, M., El-Basyouny, K., & Kwon, T. J. (2019) Lessons Learned from the Large-scale Application of Driver Feedback Signs in an Urban City. Accepted for presentation at the 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2020.

• Gu, L., Wu, M., & Kwon, T. J. (2019). An Enhanced Spatial Statistical Method for Continuous Monitoring of Winter Road Surface Conditions. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. In-Press.

• Biswas, S., Wu, M., Kwon, T. J. & Melles, S. J. (2019). Use of Topography, Weather Zones, and Semivariogram Parameters to Optimize Road Weather Information System Station Density across Large Spatial Scales. Transportation Research Record, DOI:0361198119846467.