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Prof. Dr. Meng Wang © VPA

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Mr Prof. Dr. Meng Wang

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Organization Name

Chair of Traffic Process Automation

Chair of Traffic Process Automation

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Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, Room POT 56 Hettnerstraße 3

01069 Dresden

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Education
September 2009 - October 2014 Ph.D. with distinction at the Department of Transport and Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology
September 2003 -
July 2006		 Master of Science in Traffic and Transport Planning and Management, Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, China
September 1999 -
July 2003		 Bachelor of Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
Experience
Dec. 2021 - now Full Professor (W3) and Head of Chair of Traffic Process Automation, “Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2019 – 2021 Co-Director of the Electric and Automated Transport Research Lab (hEAT Lab), Department of Transport & Planning, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
May 2019 –
November 2021		 Tenured Assistant Professor, at the Department of Transport & Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
April 2015 – April 2019 Tenure Track Assistant Professor on Intelligent Vehicles and Driver Behaviour at the Department of Transport & Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
May 2014 - March 2015 PostDoc researcher at Automotive Group, Department of BioMechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
April 2012 - June 2012 Visiting PhD researcher at Institute for Traffic Econometrics, Modeling, and Statistics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
July 2006 - August 2009 Assistant Researcher and Section Manager at Section Transport Safety Research, National Center of ITS Engineering & Technology, Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, China
Awards and Grants
  • 2021, Best 10 Papers, RailBeijing2021 - the 9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis
  • 2019, Best Paper Award, RailNorrköping2019 - the 8th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (ICROMA)
  • 2015, IEEE ITS Society Best PhD Dissertation Award (2nd Prize)
  • 2014, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, Chinese Scholarship Council
  • 2013, Second Prize for the Best Paper Award for 16th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (3rd author)
  • 2013, Best Paper Award of 20th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (3rd author)
  • 2008, Third Prize of Science and Technology for the project “Key Technologies Development for Commercial Vehicle Accident Prevention” by China Highway and Transportation Society
  • 2008, Outstanding (research track) employee award of the year, National Centre of ITS Engineering & Technology, Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, China
  • 2007, Outstanding (research track) employee award of the year, National Centre of ITS Engineering & Technology, Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, China
Organization of Scientific Events
  • 2022   General Chair, 4th Symposium on Management of Future motorway and urban Traffic Systems 2022 (MFTS2022), Dresden, Germany
  • 2022    Special Session Co-Chair, IEEE ITS Conference 2022, Macau, China
  • 2020   Conference Program Chair, IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems, 2020, Delft, The Netherlands
  • 2018    Organizer of Workshop on Cooperative Driving during IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, June, Suzhou, China
  • 2017   Organizer and Chair of Workshop on Eco-drive at Intersections with Connected, Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Technology during IEEE ITS Conference, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2017   Organizer and Chair of Breakout session #14: Enhancing the validity of traffic flow models with emerging data, Automated Vehicle Symposium, 2017,

    Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • 2015   Organizer and Chair of Special Session: Design, Modelling and Control of Autonomous and Cooperative Vehicle Systems – EWGT Conference, Delft, The Netherlands
Commitee/Board/Membership
2018 – now Member of Technical Committee on Cooperative Driving, IEEE ITS Society
2016 – now Member, Subcommittee AHB45(3) Traffic flow modeling in connected and automated vehicle environment, Transportation Research Board
2016 – now Vice President, Europe Chapter of Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA)
2016 – now Member of Scientific Committee of Symposium series on Management of Future motorway and urban Traffic Systems (MFTS)
2016 – now Member of International Programme Committee of the annual IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium
2016 Member of International Program Committee of 14th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS)
2015 – now Staff member, Dutch Research School for Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics (TRAIL)
2013 – now Member of International Programme Committee of the annual IEEE ITS Conference
Editorship
2020 - now Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2021 - now Associate Editor, IET Intelligent Transport Systems
2021 - now Associate Editor, Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
2018 - now

Editorial Board Member, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
2021 - now Editorial Board Member, Communications in Transportation Research

2020

 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems
2020 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Safety of Automated Driving in Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
2019 Review Coordinator, TRB ACP30 Vehicle Highway Automation Committee
2017 Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Modelling Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Journal of Advanced Transportation
Supervision

Current PostDocs

Dr. Lei Wei, Beihang University, China

Current PhD students

Name Dissertation Start Remark

Xiaolin He (TU Delft)

 Perceived safety of automated driving Jan. 2020 Co-supervisor: Riender Hapee

Former PhD students

Name Dissertation Defense First employment Remark

Meiqi Liu (TU Delft)

 Cooperative urban driving strategies at signalized intersections Jan. 2022 Associate Professor, Dalian Maritime University, China Co-supervisor: Serge Hoogendoorn

Na Chen (TU Delft)

 Coordination Strategies of Connected and Automated Vehicles near On-ramp Bottlenecks on Motorways Dec. 2021   Co-supervisor: Bart van Arem

Lin Xiao (TU Delft)

 Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Vehicles on Highways: Modelling and Traffic Flow Characteristics Dec. 2020 Mobility Scientist, TNO, the Netherlands Co-supervisor: Bart van Arem

Freddy A. Mullakkal-Babu (TU Delft)

 Modelling Safety Impacts of Automated Driving Systems in Multi-Lane Traffic Sep. 2020 ADAS Simulation Engineer, Siemens PLM Software, the Netherlands Co-supervisors: Bart van Arem and Riender Happee

Current visiting scholars

  • Liying Tang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Former PostDocs

Former visiting scholars

  • Prof. Dr. Jing Zhao, Professor, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, China
  • Dr. Aurelien Duret, IFSTTAR, France
  • Daniel Adelberger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • Thomas Pallacci, University of Florence, Italy
  • Ruochen Hao, Tongji University, China
  • Chang Lu, Tongji University, China
  • Dr. Yang Zhou, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Yu Zhang, Tongji University, China
  • Dr. Harald Waschl, Assistant Professor, Johannes Kepler University Linz/BMW, Austria
  • Xiaoxia Xiong, Jiangsu University, China

  • Dr. Romain Billot, IFSTTAR and IMT Atlantique, France

  • Dr. Kun Xie, Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University, USA
  • Zirui Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
  • Xiaocong Zhao, Tongji University, China

Former M.Sc. students (as daily supervisor)

Name – Completion date - Thesis

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