I-24 MOTION: A new instrument for traffic science
The Tennessee Department of Transportation’s I-24 Mobility Technology Interstate Observation Network (MOTION) is a four-mile section of I-24 in the Nashville-Davidson County Metropoli...
Nov 12, 2023
Customized adaptive cruise control eases phantom jams: a massive field experiment
This Congestion Impacts Reduction via CAV-in-the-loop Lagrangian Energy Smoothing (CIRCLES) project aims to reduce instabilities in traffic flow, called “phantom jams,” that cause con...
Nov 22, 2022
Rectify vehicle trajectory data from video tracking algorithms
Vehicle trajectory data has received increasing research attention over the past decades. With the technological sensing improvements such as high-resolution video cameras, in-vehicle...
Aug 05, 2022
Personalized ACC in a digital twin framework
Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) have matured over the past few decades with the dedication to enhance user experience and gain a wider market penetration. However, personali...
May 11, 2021
Learning adaptive cruise control driving behavior from on-board radar units
This project explores methods for model parameter estimation on a car-following model using data collected from Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) enabled vehicles. The proposed methods ar...
Jun 14, 2019
Argonne IVC team visited Prof. Talebpour at UIUC
Argonne’s Intelligent Vehicle Control (IVC) team visited Prof. Alireza Talebpour at UIUC. We discussed about instrumenting eco-driving controller on the UIUC test vehicle for on-road ...
Jun 12, 2024
Attend 2nd POLARIS User Group (PUG) Workshop
The Vehicle and Mobility Systems (VMS) Department hosted the 2nd Annual POLARIS User Group Workshop on May 15-17, 2024. The workshop brings together students, researchers, professors,...
May 15, 2024
Data workshop for I-24 MOTION users at TRB
The I-24 MOTION team hosted a successful data tutorial and workshop during the Transportation Research Board 2024 Annual Meeting. This was an opportunity to hear about the project and...
Jan 10, 2024
Dissertation defense: Reconstruction of mixed traffic systems at micro and macro scales
I have successfully defended my PhD thesis in title “Reconstruction of mixed traffic systems at micro and macro scales” on September 4, 2023! The dissertation includes recent work on t...
Sep 04, 2023
CPS Rising Stars Workshop at UVA Engineering
I’m super honored to be awarded one of the CPS Rising Stars in 2023!
Jun 01, 2023
Internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL)
I had an incredible three-month experience working at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in historic Cambridge, MA. During my time there, I collaborated with Dr. Marcel Me...
Jan 19, 2023
Presentation at TRBAM2023
I am extremely honored to received my 5th DDETFP Fellowship funded by USDOT, which gave me an opportunity to travel to TRB. This is my best TRB experience since 5 years ago. I present...
Jan 17, 2023
I24-MOTION captured its first high-density freeway traffic data
Last week, 100 Nissan Rogues with customized AI algorithms helped to smooth the traffic waves on a busy stretch of Nashville’s I-24 during the morning commute. The experiment is a pro...
Nov 25, 2022
Coffee chat with Boston Public School students at Mass General Hospital
I was invited by my friend Kelsey McCunney from Mass General Brigham to chat with Boston Public School students who interned at Mass General Hospital for the summer. They offer a “Sum...
Aug 12, 2022
Presentation at IPAM reunion workshop
In June, I joined IPAM Reunion Conference for Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicles at Lake Arrowhead, CA, and gave a talk on “Automatic vehicle trajectory...
Jun 10, 2022
Invited talk at VSA Expert Night
I was invited at Vanderbilt Summer Academy, a pre-college residential program for rising 11th/12th grade students. The “expert night” is intended to offer VSA students a wide range of...
Jul 12, 2021
I was awarded the Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship
I’m thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Scholarship at Vanderbilt University! This prestigious scholarship is granted to only three graduate ...
Jun 05, 2021
Research intern at Toyota InfoTech Labs
During my time at Toyota, I worked on personalizing adaptive cruise control in a vehicle. We collected vehicle-following-behavior data associated with a particular driver, trained a G...
Feb 15, 2021
IPAM workshop: Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicles
I participated at an IPAM workshop: Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicles in 2020.
Sep 14, 2020
Start collaborating with Dr. Delle Monache on Parameter Identifiability
We started working with Dr. Maria Laura Delle Monache at Inria, France on parameter identifiability problems, with the application on car-following model identification.
Jun 18, 2020
Poster presentation at NeurIPS workshop 2019
Yue Hu and I presented our work “Automatic data preprocessing via tensor factorization” at NeurIPS workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada.
Dec 19, 2019