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• Dr. Haoyang LIANG, Tongji University, lianghy@connect.hku.hk 

Haoyang Liang is currently a Postdoc at Tongji University and a member of IEEE. He received his B.S. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. His research interests include crowd dynamics, pedestrian-vehicle interaction, virtual reality, and human factors. Haoyang has contributed to prestigious journals and conferences such as TR-Part B, PLoS ONE, and the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT). Currently, he is the principle investigator at Tongji University's CAVE VR lab, focusing on digital twin platforms for mixed traffic simulation and testing.

• Prof. Jian SUN, Tongji University, sunjian@tongji.edu.cn 

Sun Jian received the Ph.D. degree from Tongji University in 2006. Subsequently, he was at Tongji University as a Lecturer, and then promoted to the position as Professor in 2011, where he is currently a Professor with the College of Transportation Engineering and the Dean of the Department of Traffic Engineering. His main research interests include traffic flow theory, traffic simulation, connected vehicle-infrastructure system, and intelligent transportation systems. Sun Jian has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles, authored three monographs, and co-edited three provincial and ministerial standards. Additionally, he has filed more than 30 national invention patents and secured 6 software copyrights. He also contributes as the Associate Editor for the IET Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles.

• Prof. Tarek Sayed, University of British Columbia

Tarek Sayed is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, where he also holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transportation Safety and Advanced Mobility. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UBC and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. His research interests include traffic safety, intelligent transportation systems, and data-driven safety analysis. Tarek has pioneered the use of automated video-based methods for real-time safety evaluation, with applications adopted by transportation agencies across North America and internationally. He has authored over 350 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals such as TR-Part C, Safety Science, and Accident Analysis and Prevention, and regularly contributes to conferences including TRB and WCTR.

• Prof. Shuo Feng, Tsinghua University

Shuo Feng received the bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and also an Assistant Research Scientist with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. His research interests include the development and validation of safety-critical machine learning, particularly for connected and automated vehicles. He was a recipient of the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society in 2020, the ITS Best Paper Award from the INFORMS TSL society in 2021, MIT TR35 China, and DAMO Academy Young Fellow. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT VEHICLES and an Academic Editor of the Automotive Innovation.

• Prof. Klaus Bengler, Technische Universität München

Klaus Bengler graduated in psychology at the University of Regensburg in 1991 and received his Doctorate in 1994 in cooperation with BMW. After his diploma he was active on topics of software ergonomics and evaluation of human-machine interfaces. He investigated the influence of additional tasks on driving performance in several studies within EMMIS EU project and in contract with BMW. Multifunctional steering wheels, touchscreens and ACC-functionality are examples for the topics of these investigations. 

In 1997 he joined BMW. From several projects he is experienced with experimental knowledge and experience with different kind of driving simulators and field trials. Within BMW Research and Technology he was responsible for projects on HMI research. 

He was active as a coordinator for Subproject 2 “Evaluation und Methodology” within the EU funded integrated project AIDE. He is active member of ISO TC22 SC13 WG8 „Road vehicles - Ergonomic aspects of transport information and control systems“. 

Since May 2009 he is leader of the Institute of Ergonomics at Technical University Munich which is active in research areas like digital human modeling, human robot cooperation, driver assistance, automated driving and human reliability. Among intensive industrial cooperation the Institute is engaged in the funded Projects INSAA on Digital Human Modeling and ECOMOVE, H-MODE and D3COS on automated driving. Further research focused on driver vehicle interaction in @city, Stadt:up and an evaluation of L2 driving automation systems in cooperation with RWTH Aachen. In UNICARagil the chair was responsible for anthropometric requirements of autonomous vehicles, their interaction and communication with other road users. The integration of driver models as cognitive digital twins into microsimulations of traffic is the topic in i4Driving (EU) and MIROVA (DFG).