Professor and Director of PacTrans and STAR Lab
yinhai[at]uw.edu
(206) 616-2696
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Dr. Yinhai Wang is a professor in transportation engineering and the founding director of the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington (UW). He also serves as director for Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10 and visiting chair for the Traffic Information and Control Department at Harbin Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Tokyo (1998), a master's degree in computer science from the UW, and another master's degree in construction management (1991) and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering (1989) from Tsinghua University in China. Dr. Wang's active research fields include traffic sensing, e-science of transportation, big-data analytics, traffic operations and simulation, smart urban mobility, transportation safety, etc. He has published over 120 peer reviewed journal articles and delivered more than 130 invited talks and nearly 220 other academic presentations.
Currently, his research effort has been dedicated in developing (1) new traffic sensors; (2) data quality control algorithms; (3) big data analytics tools; (4) data-driven methods; and (5) data management solutions to support the research and practical needs in traffic operations, traffic safety, urban mobility, connected/automated vehicle deployments, etc.
BS in Applied Mathematics, Sichuan University
PhD in Management Science and Engineering, Sichuan University
Research Interests: Intelligent Transportation Systems; Traffic Safety; Data-Driven Decision Science; Artificial Intelligence
ziqiang[at]uw.edu
BS in Transportation Engineering, Jilin University
MS and PhD in Transportation Engineering, Hiroshima University
Research Interests: ITS; Human Behavior; Traffic Safety; Urban and Transportation Planning; Energy Policy; Big data analytics
yjiang9[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil Engineering, University of Iowa
MUP in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Washington
Research Interests: Urban Planning; Mobility as a Service; Advance Parking
ckopca[at]uw.edu
PacTrans Assistant Director
BS in Civil Engineering, University of Idaho
MS in Transportation Engineering, University of Washington
Research Interests: Transportation Big Data Management; Data Quality Control; Machine Learning
henr2237[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil Engineering & Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Research Interests: Traffic Safety; Traffic Operations; Statistics; Machine Learning
jeash[at]uw.edu
Lab Manager
BS in Civil Engineering & Economics, Tsinghua University
MS in Transportation Engineering & Statistics, University of Washington
Research Interests: Connected Vehicles; Statistical Modeling; Traffic Simulation
wbzhu[at]uw.edu
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Lab Manager
BS in Transportation Engineering, Southeast University
MS in Civil and Transportation Engineering, University of Washington
Research Interests: Traffic Sensing; Artificial Intelligence; Traffic Safety; Connected Vehicle
ziyuanpu[at]uw.edu
BS in Automation, Tsinghua University
MS in Transportation Engineering, University of Washington
Research Interests: Intelligent Transportation Systems; Artificial Intelligence in Transportation; Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
ker27[at]uw.edu
BS in Software Engineering, Beihang University
MS in Software Engineering, Peking University
Research Interests: Transportation Data Analytics; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Artificial Intelligence
zhiyongc[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
MS in Transportation Engineering, University of Washington
Research Interests: Traffic Control; Autonomous and Connected Vehicles; Robotic Learning; Machine Learning
mayureeb[at]uw.edu
Ms and BS in Transportation Engineering, Tongji University
Research Interests: Driving Behavior; Autonomous Driving; Reinforcement Learning; Artificial Intelligence
meixin92[at]uw.edu
BS in Automation, Tsinghua University
Research Interests: Sensor Development; Computer Vision; Traffic Data Analysis
zhuang93[at]uw.edu
BS in Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research Interests: Traffic Data Analysis; Machine Learning; Web Development; Traffic Simulation
mjfu[at]uw.edu
BS in Port, Channel and Coastal Engineering, Tianjin University
Research Interests: Traffic Operation; Transportation Planning
yb9[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil Engineering, Saint Louis University
Research Interests: Traffic Safety, Traffic Operations, Transportation Planning
gottsc[at]uw.edu
BS in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Research Interests: Deep Leaning; Transportation Data Analytics
haoya[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil Engineering, Iowa State University
Research Interests: Traffic Operatons; Machine Learning; Big data analytics
tianyl23[at]uw.edu
Visiting Scholar
China Academy of Railway Sciences
Associate Professor
South China University of Technology
Visiting Scholar
Changan University
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Beijing Jiaotong University
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Tsinghua University
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Harbin Institute of Technology
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Harbin Institute of Technology
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Sichuan University
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Tongji University
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Sichuan University
Associate Professor
Chang'an University
Professor
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Tongji University
Associate Professor
Chang'an University
