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 Transportation Engineering, South China University of Technology
MS and PhD in Transportation Engineering, University of Florida
Research Interests: Traffic Simulation and Software Development; Transportation Data Analytics; Traffic Operations and safety; Transportation Network Modeling
wsun91[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 & 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
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 Automation, Tsinghua University
MS in Transportation Engineering, University of Washington
Research Interests: Sensor Development; Computer Vision; Traffic Data Analysis
zhuang93[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 Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University
MS in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence in Transportation; Transportation Safety; Computer Vision
mjtsai[at]uw.edu
BE in Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University
MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Statistics, Stanford University
Research Interests: Transportation Data Science; Travel Demand Forecasting; Optimization
syin1[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
BS in Quantity Surveying, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
MS in Urban Planning, Columbia University
Research Interests: Traffic Operations; Transportation Data Analytics
lingran[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University
Research Interests: Transportation Data Analytics; Traffic Safety; Deep Learning
f3478[at]uw.edu
BS in Civil Engineering, University of Washington
Research Interests: Rural Transportation; Non-car Autonomous Vehicles and Computer Vision; Transportation Safety
samuelsr[at]uw.edu
Visiting Scholar
Chongqing Jiaotong University
Visiting Scholar
Civil Aviation Flight University of China
Visiting Scholar
Changsha University of Science and Technology
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
