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New paper on vehicle re-ID
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Working with Dr. Wei Sun, our research on vehicle re-identification, using an adversarial style-irrelevant feature learning framework, was successfully published in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Paper can be found here
Dr. He Joins Nonlinear Dynamics as Subject Editor
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Dr. He has been appointed as a Subject Editor for Nonlinear Dynamics, a prestigious Q1 journal published by Springer Nature. In this role, he will leverage his expertise in intelligent transportation systems to assess manuscripts and support the journal’s commitment to academic excellence.
ITE RPI Student Chapter
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We held the first committee meeting of the ITE RPI Student Chapter today! During the meeting, we discussed the chapter’s bylaw, clarified leadership roles, and set our goals for the semester. The chapter will be led by Gwen Coyne (President), Faisal Safi (Vice President), Kyla Levin (Secretary), and Kaliyah Evans (Treasurer). Special thanks to Dr. Xiaoyu Ma for her tremendous efforts in helping establish this chapter.
Prof. Heaslip Visits RPI
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Dr. He invites Kevin P. Heaslip II, Director of the Center for Transportation Research and Professor Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee to give a talk on “Research Agenda for Future Mobility: Exploring Innovations, Sustainability, and Smart Transportation Solutions.” Thank you Kevin for sharing your vision with us!
Dr. Fan visits RPI
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Dr. He invites Dr. Yueyue (YoYo) Fan from UC Davis to give a talk on “Physics-Informed Data Analytics Approaches Using Constrained Optimization - Exploiting Domain Knowledge with Hard Information in a Transportation Network.” Thank you for sharing your research with us!
New PhD
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Xiaoyu has successfully defended her dissertation on “Fostering cooperative intersection crossing for connected and automated traffic on urban corridors.” She will join Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoc. Congratulations!
TR-B Paper
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Congratulations to Xiaoyu for her paper published in Transportation Research Part B.
ISTTT25
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Xiaoyu’s dissertation work on a two-way reinforcement learning for CAV traffic congestion mitigation has been accepted by ISTTT25
Sensors Paper
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Yu’s paper on safety-stability tradeoffs of CAV platoons has been accepted by Sensors. The article is here.
WTS Award
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Oct 26, 2023: Xiaoyu won the 2023 WTS Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship / Great New York: Leonard Braun Memorial Scholarship! Congrats!
INFOMRS Talk
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Xiaoyu is attending the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, to give a talk titled “Enhancing Real-Time Bus Arrival Time Prediction with a Machine Learning-Driven Markov Process Approach.”
TRB papers
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Henan’s paper on Equity in Truck-Drone Cooperative Delivery has been accepted by the 103rd RB annual meeting. Congrats!
TRB papers
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Xiaoyu has two papers, one on on-street parking space allocation and the other on correlated CAV en-route routing, have been accepted by the 103rd RB annual meeting. Well done!
ITS Panel
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Dr. He is on the panel “ITS for Transit” at ITS-NY Thirtieth Annual Meeting & Technology Exhibition: A Connected World and presents our team’s recent research on real-time bus arrival prediction.
New PhD
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Yu has successfully defended his dissertation on “Fostering cooperative intersection crossing for connected and automated traffic on urban corridors.” Congratulations!
Founders Award of Excellence
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Xiaoyu receives the Founders Award of Excellence, which “was established in 1994 to honor students who embody the qualities of creativity, discovery, and leadership, and the values of pride and responsibility at Rensselaer.” Congrats, Xiaoyu!
Student Travel Award
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Xiaoyu wins travel award to attend the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN, to present her recent work on optimal on-street parking space allocation. Congratulations, Xiaoyu!
Rural Drone
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Dr. He will collaborate with Prof. Ziping Wang at Morgan State University in the next three years on developing equitable and sustainable last-mile delivery for rural areas with drones. This project is supported by NSF. Details are here.
Cooperative Crossing
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Aug 11, 2022: Yu’s paper on adaptive control for reliable cooperative intersection crossing has been published in International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics. Congratulations, Yu!
Super Truck 3
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Led by Prof. Jose Holguin-Veras, the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment at RPI will work with Volvo Group on the Super Truck 3 program, supported by the US DOE, in the next four years. Details are here.
Student Award
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Xiaoyu Ma won the 2021 Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering. Congrats on your well deserved award, Xiaoyu!
Invited Speaker
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Dr. Sikai (Sky) Chen, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) and Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, gave a talk on Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Operations in Mixed Traffic. Thanks for sharing, Sky!
TRB paper
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Pengcheng’s paper on vulnerability analysis of connected automated vehicle platoon has been accepted for presentation at the TRB 2022 Annual Meeting. Great job!
TRB paper
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Yu Wei’s paper on truck speed imputation technique has been accepted for presentation at TRB 2022 Annual Meeting. Congrats, Yu!
TRB paper
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Xiaoyu’s paper on Within-day Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Multi-class Travelers has been accepted for presentation at the TRB 2022 Annual Meeting. Well done!
ITSC
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Pengcheng’s paper on CAV platooning vulnerability has been accepted by IEEE ITSC 2021, which will be held September 19-22, 2021 at Indianapolis, IN. Well done, Pengcheng!
TR-C Paper
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Congratulations to Xiaoyu for her paper on long-term electric vehicle policy-making that has been published in Transportation Research Part C.
TRB Committee Member
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Dr. He now serves as a member of TRB Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (AEP40).
Interview
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Rise of Connected Autonomous Vehicles Will Require New Models for Managing Traffic – Dr. He is in the story about connected vehicles.
CAREER Award
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Dr. He receives the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. He will work with his team on Robust Traffic Management for Connected Vehicle Systems. Details can be found here.
EV Special Issue
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He is organizing a special issue on “Electric Vehicles: Planning and Operations.”
Sustainability Special Issue
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Dr. He is organizing a special issue on “Sustainable Transportation and Traffic in Smart Cities.” Details can be found here.
Frontiers Special Issue
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Dr. He leads a special issue on “Innovative Approaches for Resilient Connected and Automated Vehicle Systems.”
TRB paper
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Xiaoyu’s paper, titled “Period-to-period tolling scheme for mixed traffic of electric and gasoline vehicles with time-varying flow composition”, has been accepted for presentation at the TRB 2021 Annual Meeting.
Associate Editor
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Dr. He now serves as an associate editor for the journal Frontiers in Future Transportation.
Student Travel Award
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Xiaoyu Ma wins a Graduate Student Travel Award to present her work at the TRB 2020 Annual Meeting. Congratulations, Xiaoyu!
Dean’s Seminar
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Dr. He gives a talk on “Fostering the resilience of connected transportation systems” in Rensselaer School of Science Dean’s Seminar Series
TRB paper
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Xiaoyu’s paper, titled “Multiclass Traffic Evolution Model for Electric and Gasoline Vehicles with Bi-Objective Path Choice Behavior”, has been accepted for presentation at the TRB 2020 Annual Meeting.
TRB paper
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Pengcheng’s paper, titled “Analyzing Cyberattack Effects on Connected Autonomous Vehicles Using a Cooperative Intelligent Driver Model”, has been accepted for presentation at the TRB 2020 Annual Meeting.
TR-B Editor
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Dr. He now serves as an editorial board member of Transportation Research Part B.
New Team Member
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Mr. Pengcheng Wang, Ph.D. Student at Beihang University, joined Dr. He’s group as a visiting scholar.
TR-D Special Issue
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Dr. He is organizing a Transportation Research Part D special issue on the Advances in Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Knowledge and Innovation Program
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Dr. He and Dr. Gao from Computer Sciences will lead a team focusing on “Fostering the Resilience of Connected Autonomous Urban Transportation Systems”, supported by the Knowledge and Innovation Program.
New Team Member
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Mr. Yi Zhang, Associate Professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, joined Dr. He’s group as a visiting scholar.
DOE Living Lab
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RPI transportation team receives $2 million support from DOE to serve as a “living lab” to incorporate energy efficient technologies and practices. Details in DOE announcement
portfolio
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projects
CAREER Award
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This paper is about connected autonomous vehicles. We will continue information theory and game theory.
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Equitable Drone
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This project focuses on rural drone delivery.
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talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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teaching
CIVL 4660 - Traffic Engineering
Undergraduate course, RPI, Civil Engineering, 2017
This is an advanced course on fundamentals of urban traffic engineering, including data collection, analysis, design, traffic engineering studies, traffic control devices, capacity and level of service analysis of freeways and urban streets. Application of traffic operations computer simulation models to the design of isolated and coordinated traffic signal control systems will also be introduced and used in this course. The objective of this course is to introduce students to traffic engineering fundamentals for highways and freeways. Emphasis is on the safe and efficient operations of roadway intersections. State-of-the-art computer packages will be used to solve traffic engineering problems.
CIVL 6260 - Transportation Network Analysis
Graduate coure, RPI, Civil Engineering, 2017
This is a graduate level course on fundamentals of transportation network analysis, including graph representations of transportation networks, static traffic assignment and user equilibrium, stochastic user equilibrium and dynamic traffic assignment. Basic mathematical analysis tools such as linear and nonlinear programming, nonlinear complementarity problems, and variational inequalities, will be introduced. The objective of this course is to introduce students to transportation network analysis fundamentals so that they are equipped with basic skills to conduct advanced research in this area.
CIVL 6270 - Traffic Control and Simulation
Graduate coure, RPI, Civil Engineering, 2018
Topics on traffic control systems such as signals and ramp metering; sensor-aided and data-oriented traffic modeling; fundamentals and applications of microscopic traffic simulation. State of the art signal design and traffic simulation tools will be used throughout the class.
CIVL 2030 - Introduction to Transportation Engineering
Undergraduate coure, RPI, Civil Engineering, 2020
Introduction to basic concepts in transportation engineering including planning, design, and operations. Introduces the challenges and issues in modeling transportation problems. Studies of various concepts related to the design of highway facilities, level of service, and demand for transportation services. Concepts related to signal optimization. Policy implications. Basics of transportation planning.
CIVL 1300 - Beginning Programming in CEE
Undergraduate coure, RPI, Civil Engineering, 2024
This course serves as an introduction to fundamental programming concepts in the Python environment. Geared towards students with minimal or no prior programming experience, this course covers essential topics such as Python language syntax, variables, types, control structures (branching and loops), functions, strings, lists, dictionaries, and techniques for visualizing results through plotting. By the end of the course, students will establish a solid foundation in Python programming, enabling them to solve elementary computational problems, engage in fundamental data analysis, and set the stage for more advanced coding endeavors.