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Mr Prof. Dr. Meng Wang

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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 (2^nd 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, 4^th 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

Dr. Xinwei Wang, TU Delft

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

Shanmugapriya Ramakrishnan, October 2020, Greenhouse gas emissions from road works https://www.its-edulab.nl/wp-content/uploads/MSc_Thesis_Priya_Ramakrishnan.pdf
Mathieu Blauw, September 2019, Representing the Car-Following Behaviour of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Systems Using Parametric Car-Following Models http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c478714c-6449-4240-ab6d-154017e68dd8
Aiko Doktor, September 2018, Active platoon formation in congestion with Dynamic Dedicated Lane Sections (DDLSs). http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f9db3298-dba4-4de8-89ac-65e13a7e96ff
Paco Hamer, September 2018, Automated truck platoon model development and effect study of the lane change location on different motorway road sections. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5c33c234-9ad0-4523-bec3-8496f02eee42
Sander van Maarseveen, December 2017, Impacts of truck platooning at motorway on-ramps (Final grade 9). http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dd8ee414-bddc-435b-90fe-21480cbd9187
Noorhan Helmy, December 2017, An intelligent Traffic Flow progression Model for Predictive Control Applications (Final grade 9 and Cum Laude). http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d1abdee5-301a-45d8-ae95-c204a2000bbd
Matthijs Huisman, November 2016, Impacts of (Cooperative) Adaptive Cruise Control Systems on Traffic Flow: A simulation case study on the effects of (Cooperative) Adaptive Cruise Control on the A15 highway. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:908d6e72-6e74-4845-b5c1-320f05941260
Lenin Mishra, August 2016, Maneuvering of Automated Vehicles in an Unsignalized Intersection: A distributed control strategy http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2bf6d9e6-2aee-4a3c-9c14-c16f5449d9f2
Xiao Ouyang, 2016, Trajectory Generation for Trucks for Merging Manoeuvres on the Highway http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:eb6f161d-989a-42d1-bdfe-a3207a986af3
Gagan Reddy, 2016, Hierarchical Model Predictive Control for Trajectory Generation and Tracking in Highly Automated Vehicles http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:82b5cd15-3203-47de-85b3-ca56a5d3dab8

Publications

109 Entries

2022

Online Optimization of Gear Shift and Velocity for Eco-Driving Using Adaptive Dynamic ProgrammingLi, G., Gorges, D. & Wang, M., 1 Mar 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles : T-IV. 7, 1, p. 123-132, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
A single-layer approach for joint optimization of traffic signals and cooperative vehicle trajectories at isolated intersectionsLiu, M., Zhao, J., Hoogendoorn, S. & Wang, M., Jan 2022, In: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 134, 103459Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
An Approach to Compensate for Heterogeneous Feedback and Actuation Delays in Platooning SystemsZhang, Y., Hu, J. & Wang, M., 2022, In: IFAC-PapersOnLine. 55, 36, p. 294-299, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Conference article
An optimal control approach of integrating traffic signals and cooperative vehicle trajectories at intersectionsLiu, M., Zhao, J., Hoogendoorn, S. & Wang, M., 2022, In: Transportmetrica : B, Transport dynamics. 10, 1, p. 971-987, 17 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Prediction-Based Reachability Analysis for Collision Risk Assessment on HighwaysWang, X., Li, Z., Alonso-Mora, J. & Wang, M., 2022, 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2022. IEEE Xplore, p. 504-510, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution

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