Prof. Xiaoqing Zeng is a professor at the College of Transportation, Tongji University, China. She received her Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. Degrees from Tongji University. She studied at Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan、Darmstadt University in Germany、Tsinghua University for Post-doctor or research projects. Her research focuses in the field of transportation information and control engineering. She has published more than 100 papers, received 16 patents, wrote 6 books and one of which was awarded the first prize by Tongji University. Prof. Zeng has rich teaching experience. She teaches 20 undergraduate and graduate courses, such as rail transit control and management, traffic information systems and engineering, ATC technology of urban vehicle, etc. Prof. Zeng is also the vice-president of Shanghai Creative Studies Institute.
Prof. Xiongyao Xie is a professor at the College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China, and deputy director of the Department of Geotechnical Engineering. He received Ph.D. degree in Underground Construction and Engineering at Tongji University, in 2001. His research focuses on NDT, risks, and disaster prevention of tunneling and underground engineering. He has published more than 40 papers, received 4 patents, completed nearly 20 research projects, and has been awarded several national prizes in China. Prof. Xie also has rich teaching experience and his Underground Structures and Underground Engineering Construction were awarded the excellent courses prize by Tongji University.
Prof. Jian Sun is a professor and executive dean at the School of Future Transportation, Chang'an University, China. He received Ph. D. degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation Engineering) from the University of Florida in 2009, and was a senior visiting scholar in ETH-Zurich, Switzerland in 2019.8-2020.3. Prof. Sun's research field includes urban driving behavior and modeling, urban comprehensive traffic planning and simulation, connected vehicle and networking technologies, and urban traffic signal self-adaption. He has published more than 100 papers in the past five years, participated in more than 30 research projects. He has been awarded "World's Top 2% Scientists" since 2019, and "Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" since 2022.
Prof. Limin Ma is a professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering in Tongji University, China. He obtained Ph. D. degree in Biogeochemistry from the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2001. From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting scholar in Pisa University, Italy. Prof. Ma's research field includes environmental behavior of emerging pollutants, bioecological restoration, constructed wetland waste water treatment, agricultural non-point source pollution control and application of compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA). He has completed nearly 20 research projects, published more than 160 scientific papers, wrote 4 books and been granted more than10 patents.
Prof. Yinong Chen is a senior lecturer at School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, USA. He received Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1993. He did postdoctoral research at Karlsruhe and at LAAS-CNRS in France. From 1994 to 2000, he was a lecturer and then senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Dr. Chen joined Arizona State University in 2001. His expertise includes service-oriented computing, programming languages, dependable computing, robotics, and embedded systems. He (co-) authored six textbooks and more than 120 research papers. He is in editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of Systems and Software and Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory.
