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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Honors & Awards:
• Texas A&M University Dissertation Fellowship, Top 1% (2024)
• TAMU Graduate School Research and Presentation Travel Award (2023)
• TTI Keese-Wootan Transportation Fellowship, Top 5% (2022)
• ITS Texas Scholarship, Top 1% (2021)
• Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Excellence Fellowship (2020)
• Tsinghua University Excellence Scholarship, Top 5% (2019)
• Direct Admission to Graduate School at Tsinghua University, Top 1% (2017)
• Northeastern University Outstanding Student, Top 1% (2017)
• Outstanding Bachelor’s Graduation Thesis, Northeastern University, Top 5% (2017)
• Dalian Alumni Association Scholarship, Northeastern University (2016)
• Northeastern University Excellence Scholarships, Top 5% (2015, 2016, 2017)
Competitions:
• FHWA 2023 Excellence in Highway Safety Data Award (1st place, Co-Leader): 'Equitable traffic crash prediction framework to support safety improvement grants allocation'
• ITE Vision Zero Sandbox Design Competition (1st place, Lead in methodology): 'Countermeasure Selection Using Near-Miss Data to Support Vision Zero in Bellevue'
• ASA 2021 Joint Statistical Meeting Honorable Mention Paper (Lead in methodology): 'Discovering Reasons and Patterns for Bridges with Fast Deteriorating Deck Conditions'
Background
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University (TAMU)
Research vision: Deeply understand fundamentals of transportation systems and thoughtfully integrate advanced technologies to improve safety, stability, efficiency, equity, intelligence, resilience, and sustainability
Inspired by Stephen Hawking’s principle: 'One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect,' advocating engineering innovation through embracing imperfection
Subcommittee member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50)
Open to collaboration; contact via email: scottlzh[AT]tamu.edu