Prof. Shaopeng Zhong

Dalian University of Technology, China

Biography:

Dr. Shaopeng Zhong is a professor in School of Transportation and Logistics at Dalian University of Technology and the Deputy Director of the Traffic Engineering Laboratory. In 2005, he received his bachelor's degree in transportation engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. In 2010, he obtained his doctorate from Southeast University, China. He is a visiting scholar in urban and regional planning at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008-2010). He is a guest professor at Technical University of Denmark (2017-2018).

He has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of sustainable urban planning and transportation planning, land use and transportation integration modeling, urban transportation network analysis, transportation network reliability, road congestion pricing, logic-driven transport big data analysis, and shared autonomous mobility. He has written and published three books and more than thirty scientific papers in the top journals in the field of transportation planning, such as Transportation Research Part A, Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Transport Geography, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Journal of Transportation Engineering-ASCE, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, and Journal of Transport and Land Use.

Prof. Zhong Wang

Dalian University of Technology, China

Biography:

Zhong Wang, Professor and Dean of the School of Transportation and Logistics at Dalian University of Technology.Prof. Wang graduated with a bachelor's degree in Transportation Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1997, and obtained a master's degree from the Transportation Research Center of Beijing Institute of Technology in 2000. In the same year, Prof. Wang went to the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin to pursue a doctoral degree in Transportation, under the guidance of C Academician Michael Walton obtained his doctoral degree in December 2005. From January 2006 to May 2008, worked as a full-time researcher at the Transportation Research Center of the University of Texas in the United States, engaged in research related to intelligent transportation; From June 2008 to December 2010, worked as a senior traffic planner at the Department of Transportation in Seattle, Washington, USA, overseeing traffic planning, demand forecasting, and emergency management; Prof. Wang have been teaching at Dalian University of Technology since January 2011 and currently serve as the Dean of theSchool of Transportation and Logistics.