Projects


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

Online multi-object tracking (MOT) on large fragment data

Multi-object tracking (MOT) or global data association problem is commonly approached as a minimum-cost-flow or minimum-cost-circulation problem on a graph. While there have been nume...

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 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

Estimation for heterogeneous traffic states

This work explores the state estimation problem for heterogeneous traffic (a multiclass flow composed of vehicles with distinct sizes and driving behaviours) usingparticle filtering (...

Nov 18, 2021

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

Identifiability of car-following dynamics

The advancement of in-vehicle sensors provides abundant datasets to estimate parameters of car-following models that describe driver behaviors. The question of parameter identifiabili...

Jun 18, 2020

Large spatial-temporal data processing via tensor factorization

The US Environmental Protection Agency identifies that urban heat islands can negatively impact a community’s environment and quality of life. Using low cost urban sensing networks, i...

Jun 14, 2020

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

Bridges to Prosperity (now Engineers in Action Bridge Program)

In the summer of 2016, Vivian Wong and I tagged along with a group of engineers from the University of Toronto to travel to Guatemala for a bridge-build project. Upon our turn, we co-...

Feb 04, 2018