Professional Services

Editorship

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2026 - Present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2026 - Present
• Editorial Board Member, Future Transportation, 2021 - Present
• Review Editor, Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2021 - Present
• Guest Editor, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Traffic Safety Risk Evaluation, Prevention, and Control, 2019

Advisory Panels and Professional Leadership

• Advisory Panel Member, Research and Education for Promoting Safety (REPS) Tier 1 University Transportation Center, Howard University, 2025 - Present
• Advisory Panel Member, TRB Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP), Project BTS-47: Assessing Effects of Speed Camera Programs on Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes, 2025 - Present
• Chapter Secretary, IEEE Transportation Electrification Council-East Tennessee Chapter, 2024 - Present
• Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Committee on Autonomous Vehicles, 2024 - Present
• Associate Committee Member, ASCE Transportation & Development Institute Artificial Intelligence Committee, 2021 - Present
• Younger Committee Member, ASCE Transportation & Development Institute Transportation Safety Committee, 2019 - Present
• Program Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS), 2022 - 2024

Conference and Workshop Leadership

• Session Chair (Moderator), “Advancing Large Language Models for Safer and Smarter Transportation Systems,” ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2025), 2025
• Co-Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2024), 2024
• Session Chair (Moderator), “Promoting Vehicle Automation Fueled by Equitable Financing and Technology Innovations,” ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2024), 2024

Memberships

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024 - Present
• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2017 - Present
• Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), 2017 - Present
• Member, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), 2017 - Present

Peer Review

Journals

• Nature Communications, 2025 - Present
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2021 - Present
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2024 - Present
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024 - Present
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023 - Present
• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 2023 - Present
• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021 - Present
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024 - Present
• Journal of Control and Decision, 2022 - Present
• Transport Policy, 2021 - Present
• Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2017 - Present
• Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2018 - Present
• Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2022 - Present
• Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2018 - Present
• Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, 2019 - Present
• Traffic Injury Prevention, 2018 - Present
• Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019 - Present
• Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2018 - Present
• Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 2017 - Present
• Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2017 - Present
• Safety, 2020 - Present
• Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2017 - Present

Conferences

• Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2017 - Present
• ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, 2018 - Present
• COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, 2017 - Present
• Automated Vehicle Symposium, 2018 - Present

Mentoring and Teaching

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Joshua Aninyei, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (DOE SULI), Summer 2026
  LaneLLM: Fine-Tuned Vision Language Model for Lane-Level Intersection Topology
• Parth Kadav, Western Michigan University, Summer 2024
  Social-Aware Eco-Driving in a Mixed Connected and Automated Vehicle Environment Using Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Ankur Shiledar, Ohio State University, Summer 2023
  Enhanced Safety of Heavy-Duty Vehicles on Highways through Automatic Speed Enforcement: A Simulation Study
• Parth Kadav, Western Michigan University, Summer 2023
  Integrated Control of Vehicle Speeds and Traffic Signals for Reducing Congestion and Energy Use

University of Central Florida

Guest Lecturer, Fall 2020

• CGN 5341: Interdisciplinary Introduction to Smart Cities’ Applications
  Topics: transportation systems management and operations; deep-learning-based traffic prediction and visualization; connected and automated vehicles; and shared micromobility
• TTE 4274: Transportation System Engineering
  Topic: artificial intelligence in transportation

Advisory Committee Member

• Lishengsa Yue, M.S., Summer 2020 - Fall 2020
  Understanding E-Bicycle Overtaking Strategies by Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
• Zubayer Islam, Ph.D., Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
  Using Machine Learning Algorithms in Critical Traffic Engineering Applications
• Ma’en Mohammad Ali Al-Omari, Ph.D., Summer 2020 - Spring 2021
  Evaluation of Unconventional Signalized Intersections on Arterial Roads and a Proposition for a Novel Intersection Design