BIO

Dr. Yang Zhou is an assistant professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Zhou is an expert in his field and has published more than 40 top-tier transportation journals on connected automated vehicle control, traffic flow analysis, and high-fidelity simulation, including Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is also a group leader of AI applications on CAVs in the CAV subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board Traffic Flow Theory committee. Additionally, he serves as a committee member in multiple organizations such as the IEEE Emerging Transportation Technology Test Technical Committee, Transportation Research Board ACP 30(2) (Network Modeling-CAV subcommittee), and American Society of Civil Engineering, TDI-AI and TDI-safety.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

• l  Assistant Professor, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, Aug. 2022-Present

• l  Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environment Engineering& Department of Industrial System Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Dec. 2019-Aug 2022                                                                                              

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Guest Researcher                                                                                                                                                               July.2019-Aug.2019

Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology

Teaching Assistant                                                                                                                                                             Feb.2019-May.2019

 (CEE 370 Transportation Engineering in UW Madison)

Research Assistant                                                                                                            Sep.2016-Jan. 2019

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison

Guest Researcher                                                                                                                                                                Sep.2017-Dec.2017

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology

Grade Assistant                                                                                                                                                                   Jan.2016-May.2016

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison

(CEE 370 Transportation Engineering)                                                                        

Project Assistant                                                                                                                      Sep.2015-Aug.2016

Funded by Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety (TOPS) Laboratory

AWARDS

1.          Texas A&M Institute of Data-Science Career Initiation Fellow

2.         Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) Best Dissertation Award (2nd place, 2020)

3.         2019 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Transportation Engineering: Part A, Best Paper Award, “Large-Scale Full-Coverage Traffic Speed Estimation under Extreme Traffic Conditions Using a Big Data and Deep Learning Approach: Case Study in China.”

4.         Top cited papers in 2019-2022 Paper in Transportation Research Part B, “Stabilizing mixed vehicular platoons with connected automated vehicles: An H-infinity approach.”

5.         Top cited papers in 2019-2022 Paper in Transportation Research Part B, “Distributed model predictive control approach for cooperative car-following with guaranteed local and string stability.”

6.         Top cited papers in 2022 Paper in IET-Intelligent Transportation System, “Finite time observer‐based super‐twisting sliding mode control for vehicle platoons with guaranteed strong string stability.”