Lab Team

Lab Director

Xiaopeng Li

Position title: Professor

Email: xli2485@wisc.edu

Phone: (813) 974-0778

Address:
1218 Engineering Hall
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Graduate Students & Researchers

Zhaohui Liang

Position title: Research Assistant

Email: zhaohui.liang@wisc.edu

Keke Long

Position title: Research Assistant

Email: klong23@wus.edu

Ke Ma

Position title: Research Assistant

Email: kma62@wisc.edu

Peng Zhang

Position title: Research Assistant

Email: pzhang257@wisc.edu

Former Students, Collaborators & Visitors

Postdoc Researchers

  • Zhiwei Chen, USF, January 2021 – December 2022; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at Drexel University.
  • Handong Yao, USF, July 2020 – September 2022; Currently an associate professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China.
  • Hongqiang Fan, USF, October 2015 – December 2016; Currently a faculty at Beijing Post and Telecommunications University.
  • Yanqian Wang, USF, November 2015 – November 2016.
  • Mohsen Parsafard, September 2017 – October 2017.

PhD Graduates

  • Saeid Soleimaniamiri, August 2017 – May 2022; Dissertation Title: Designing Control Strategies For Connected And Automated Vehicles (Cavs) At Transportation Conflict Areas; Currently a Transportation Research Analyst at Leidos, Inc.
  • Runan Yang (female), August 2017 – May 2022; Dissertation Title: High-Risk Traffic Crash Pattern Recognition and Identification Using Econometric Models and Machine Learning Models; Currently a Data Scientist at Innova Partners.
  • Qianwen Li (female), USF, Fall – May 2022; Dissertation Title: Trajectory Planning for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Platooning and Split Operations: Modeling and Experiments; Currently a Research Assistant Professor at USF.
  • Xiaowei Shi, USF, August 2018 – December 2021; Dissertation Title: Impacts of Automated Vehicle Technologies on Future Traffic; Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Michigan.
  • Dongfang Zhao, USF, August 2016 – May 2021; Dissertation Title: Electric Vehicle Fleet Management in Transportation and Power Systems.
  • Zhiwei Chen, USF, August 2017 – December 2020; Dissertation Title: Design Next-generation Transportation Systems with Emerging Vehicle Technologies; Currently a Tenure-Tracked Assistant Professor at Drexel University.
  • Wang Yu (female), USF, August 2015 – December 2010; Dissertation Title: Trajectory Based Traffic Analysis and Control Utilizing Connected Autonomous Vehicles; Currently a Technical Staff at Plus.
  • Amir Ghiasi, USF, August 2014 – August 2018; Dissertation Title: Connected Autonomous Vehicles: Capacity Analysis, Trajectory Optimization, and Speed Harmonization; Currently work at Leidos, Inc, at the TFHRC Saxton Lab.
  • Mohsen Parsafard, USF, August 2013 – August 2017; Dissertation Title: Space-Time Transportation System Modelling: from Traveler’s Characteristics to the Network Design Problem; Currently work at Coyote, Inc.
  • Yi Wen, (co-advised with Dr. Zhang Li at MSU), MSU, Spring 2012 – Spring 2015; Engineer in the Virginia Department of Transportation.

MS Graduates

  • Hossein Amiri, May 2021; Thesis Title: Longitudinal Trajectory Tracking Analysis for Autonomous Electric Vehicles Based on PID Control
  • Brian Staes (co-advised with Dr. Robert Bertini), December 2020; Thesis Title: Diagnosis of Freeway Bottlenecks During the Mass Evacuation for Hurricane Irma on Florida’s Turnpike Mainline
  • Gangyan Zhang, Fall 2018 – December 2019; Thesis Title: Impact of the Number of Lane-Changing Times on Throughput by Fundamental Diagram Based on NGSIM Data
  • Zhiwei Chen, August 2017 – August 2019; Thesis Title: Exploring the Equity Performance of Bike-Sharing Systems with Disaggregated Data: A Story of Southern Tampa
  • Fang Zhou (female), MSU, January 2014 – August 2015 (female; Software Engineer in Leidos Inc. after graduation)
  • Jin Wang (female), MSU, August 2012 – August 2014 (female; PhD Student at Auburn University after graduation)

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Oleksandr Lisnichenko, Computer Science and Engineering, USF, Spring 2020 – Spring 2021
  • Kyle Finch, Mechanical Engineering, USF, Spring 2019 – present
  • Tyler Brown, Computer Science and Engineering, USF, Spring 2019– December 2020
  • Miracle Oluchi Anyachukwu, CEE, USF, Summer 2017 (female; African American)
  • Sabrina Mamo, CEE, USF, Spring 2017 (female; Latino)
  • Kamal Taha, CEE, USF, Spring 2017
  • John Green, CEE, MSU, Spring 2015 (African American)
  • Heather Hart, CEE, MSU, 2014-2015 (female)
  • Samantha Frederick, CEE, MSU, 2013 (female)
  • Patrick Kuykendall, CEE, MSU, 2013