Lab Team

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