Scholar
Yinhai Wang
Google Scholar ID: XBg0AAkAAAAJ
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
17,763
H-index
59
i10-index
242
Publications
20
Co-authors
24
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2023 ASCE Francis C. Turner award and the 2018 ITE Innovation in Education Award. His work has been recognized with several paper awards, including the 2022 Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence. He is a professional engineer registered in Washington, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and a fellow of both IEEE and ITE.
Research Experience
- Director of Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10, Northwestern Tribal Technical Assistance Program (NW TTAP) Center, and Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC). He served as the 2018-2019 president of ASCE Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI).
Education
- Ph.D., University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1998; M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Background
- Professor in transportation engineering and the founding director of the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington (UW). His active research fields include traffic sensing, AI methods and applications, transportation data science, edge computing, transportation safety, traffic operations and simulation, and smart urban mobility.
Miscellany
- Currently serves as the chair of the AI and Advanced Computing Applications Committee at Transportation Research Board (TRB), vice president of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC), chair of the Committee on Technical Advancement at American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the Connected and Automated Transportation Special Section Editor for ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems.
