Dr. Bao is a Chair & Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, with a joint appointment as Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute’s Human Factors Group. She is also an affiliated faculty member with UM Civil and Environmental Engineering department, MIDAS and UM Robotics Institute. Dr. Bao received her Ph.D. in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Iowa in 2009.
Her research interests focus on human factors issues related to connected and automated vehicle technologies, ADAS system evaluation, and big data analysis. She has served as the PI or co-PI of 54 research projects. She has published 72 technical publications, including 40 referred journals articles. Shan is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and has served as the chair of the Surface Transportation Technical Group of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a also member of the TRB Vehicle User Characteristics committee and the TRB Human Factors in Road Vehicle Automation subcommittee.
Dr. Huizhong Guo is an assistant research scientist in UMTRI’s Human Factors Group. Her research focuses on driver behavior and its implication on transportation safety from the perspective of e.g., driving style, driver distraction and pedestrian safety. She has extensive experience working with naturalistic driving data and laboratory data through statistical and machine learning methods.
Ph.D. Candidate
zifwang@umich.edu
Current focuses:
Driving behavior analysis
Advanced driver assistant system studies
Micro-mobility crashes analysis
Ph.D. Candidate
zhangcx@umich.edu
Current focuses:
Micro-mobility safety: risk pattern analysis and key factors identification
Micro-mobility public attitude: benefits, barriers, user demographic, and riding behavior
Industry trend of e-bikes and e-scooters, and other related human factor issues
Ph.D. Candidate
garakani@umich.edu
Current focuses:
CAV data analysis
Driver interactions with automated systems
Explain automated system decisions
Ph.D. Student (Lab Manager)
boyou@umich.edu
Current focuses:
Crash data analysis
EV charging behavior analysis
LLM applications in transportation safety
Dr. Guo, Huizhong (Edith), UMTRI (2021~2024), currently an assistant research scientist at UMTRI.
Dr. Yu, Bo, UMTRI (2020~2021), currently an assistant professor at Tongji University.
Dr. Fred Feng, UMTRI (2015~ 2018), currently an assistant professor at University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Dr. Xiong, Huimin, UMTRI (2013~ 2014). currently a data scientist at The Hartford Auto Insurance company.
Dania Ammar ("Building Pedestrians’ Trust and Awareness while Interacting with Automated Vehicles: A Solution through e-HMI Designs", Industrial & Systems Engineering Ph.D program, currently as a data scientist at HBK World).
Yi Wu (School of Information, University of Michigan).
Matthew Polak(Automotive Engineering, ISD department, University of Michigan).
Tony (Yoon-Dong) Lee(M.Eng. in Automotive Engineering & B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Michigan, Apr 2019 - Jun 2021).
Luke Niewiadomski, (April 2021), “A Model-Based Approach to User Requirements And Validation Testing in An Agile Environment”, MSE-ISE, Co-chair with Dr. Bruce Maxim.
Zhang, Yaqiong (Master in CEE, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Jan 2019~Feb 2020).
Kanishik Bakshi, (December 2019), “An Examination of Drivers’ Responses to Take-over Requests with Different Warning Systems During Conditional Automated Driving,” MSE-ISE, currently Human Factors Engineer at Cerner Corporation, Chair.
Zhengwei Wang (CS-ECE, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Meitang Li (CS, College of Enginnering, University of Michigan)
Aaron Gunn (ME, College of Engineering, University of Michigan)
Wei-Ling “Winnie” Hung(Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan)
Qirui Wu (CE, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2020~Apr 2021)
Akshay Chacko (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2020~Aug 2020)
Aashish Harikrishnan (EE, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2020~Aug 2020)
Alan Noble (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2020~Aug 2020)
Meixuan Sun (CS, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, May 2020~Aug 2020)
Jack Behrend (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Feb 2020~Aug 2020)
Jason Bian (IOE, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Sep 2018~Jan 2021).
Shih An Pan (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2018~2019).
Colleen Hillard (IOE, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May, 2018~2019).
Will Wang (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2017~2019).
Andrew Stern (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Sep 2018~2019).
Nick Sweet (CS, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May, 2018~Aug 2018).
Michelle Wang (ME, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, May 2017~May 2018).
Mitesh Patel (IOE, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Sep 2016~May 2017).