Prof. Yunlong Zhang is a Professor at the Zachry Department of Civil and
Environment Engineering at Texas A&M University and also holds a joint
appointment with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Prof. Zhang has
more than 35 years of professional experience as an engineer, educator, and
researcher in transportation engineering. He has conducted scholarly and
practical research in many areas of transportation engineering, including
modeling, simulation, and analysis of traffic flow, traffic control devices and
signal systems, safety analysis, and modeling and evaluation of advanced
technologies such as connected and autonomous vehicles. One of his particular
strengths is artificial intelligence applications in transportation, and he
served as a long-time member and research sub-committee chair of TRB’s
committee Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing. He has published over
130 journal papers including many papers in top journals such as IEEE transactions
on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Transportation Research Parts A, B,
C, D, E, and F.
Dr. Jinlei Zhang was born in Hebei Province, China. He is currently an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. He is a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, traffic big data.He is a young director of Intelligent Computing Branch of China Operations Research Society. He is also a reviewer of Transportation research part B, part C, part E, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IET Intelligent Transport Systems and other journals.
