Yang Zhou, Ph.D.

 

Brief Bio

Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, and his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. Dr. Zhou is currently a postdoctoral research associate co-supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the recipient of the 2020 best dissertation award of the Chinese Overseas Transportation Association and the 2019 Journal of Transportation Engineering best paper award. He is currently the leader of the CAV AI task group, in the TRB traffic flow theory committee.

Dr. Zhou’s research is multi-disciplinary involving traffic flow theory, control theory, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). His research mainly focused on advancing knowledge of mixed traffic flow theory with different levels of vehicular connectivity and automation, vehicle and transportation control methods, and AI applications on the intelligent transportation system. He has published nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal papers.

 

Education

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin – 2019

M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois – 2015

B.S., Transportation Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China – 2013

 

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Zachary Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2022-present.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2019-2022.
• Guest Researcher, Department of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Southeast University, 2019.
• Guest Researcher, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 2019.