A digital twin infrastructure calibrated on real-world corridor data

Imagine you’re driving on a congested freeway and find yourself caught in stop-and-go waves. These seemingly spontaneous traffic patterns—where vehicles repeatedly speed up and slow down—are surpri...

Jul 01, 2024

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 Metropolitan area with ...

Nov 12, 2023

Real-time multi-object tracking on streaming data: a graph algorithm that actualy scales

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a well-established problem in computer vision. However, the emerging challenge for modern traffic management lies in scaling these algorithms to operate in real-time....

Sep 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 congestion and wa...

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 radars and li...

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, personalization compone...

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 are batch method...

Jun 14, 2019

Presenting at the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI)

I will be giving a presentation at SRI2025, session on “Solutions for Sustainable Transport & Mobility Systems”, organized by the NSF-UKRI Clean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions (C...

Jun 18, 2025

Hosting MAG’s Data & Analytics Group at ASU

On May 6, 2025, I had the pleasure of welcoming the Data and Analytics group from the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) to the ASU campus. The visit was joined by several faculty members fr...

May 06, 2025

Welcome Texas Transportation Institute to ASU

On March 25, 2025, ASU SSEBE had the pleasure of hosting colleagues from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) for a lunch meeting. The visiting group included Vladimir Livshits, Bob Haz...

Mar 25, 2025

Student Spotlight: Raswanth Prasath at SSEBE Graduate Poster Symposium

My MS student, Raswanth Prasath, presented his work titled “Enhancing Multi-Object Tracking” at the 15th Annual SSEBE Graduate Poster Symposium at ASU. Impressively, he shared preliminary results j...

Feb 28, 2025

Reflections on TRB 2025

This year marked my seventh time attending the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting—and my first as a faculty member! The event continues to evolve, with noticeable changes introduced...

Jan 15, 2025

I will be joining the faculty of Arizona State University

I will be joining the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2025!

Jan 03, 2025

Presenting at MECC 2024 in Chicago

The 4th Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC 2024) took place this year in Chicago, and I had the pleasure of presenting in the Invited Session on Automotive and Transportation System...

Oct 30, 2024

Seminar Talk at UIC

I was thrilled to visit the University of Illinois Chicago and deliver a seminar on “Advancing Transportation Systems with Sensing and Digital Twins: A Case Study on Interstate-24”. It was a pleasu...

Oct 18, 2024

Attending ISTTT25 at the University of Michigan

I recently had the pleasure of attending the 25th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT25), hosted at the University of Michigan. The symposium brought together a vibr...

Jul 17, 2024

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 testing.

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, planning agen...

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 the data it p...

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 trajectory post...

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! The 2023 CPS Rising Stars Workshop was hosted by UVA Engineering Link Lab and was sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF)...

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 Menner and Dr. K...

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 presented our team wo...

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 project of the CI...

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 “Summer Jobs Progr...

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 data reconstr...

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 potential aca...

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 students campu...

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 Gaussian Proces...

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