Curriculum Vitae
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Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Transportation Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2023/09-2026/12 (expected).
- Advisor: Prof. Xiaopeng “Shaw” Li.
- GPA: 3.86/4.00.
- Dissertation: A data-driven pipeline for the safety evaluation of production automated vehicles.
- Master of Science, Transportation Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2023/09-2025/05.
- Advisor: Prof. Xiaopeng “Shaw” Li.
- GPA: 4.00/4.00.
- Bachelor of Management, Management Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. 2019/09-2023/06.
- Advisor: Prof. Hu Qin and Prof. Chun Cheng.
- GPA: 3.95/4.00.
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2023/09-current.
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- CEE 574 Traffic Control, graduate-level course. Co-instructor for the lab assignment lecture on traffic flow fundamentals and intersection traffic operations. Fall 2025.
- ECE 399 Independent Study. Graduate student advisor for 10+ undergraduate students, organizing weekly meetings and guiding student research projects. Summer 2025.
Tool Development
- Telematics Data Platform for Traffic Safety Analysis.
- OpenPAV: An Open Platform for Production Automated Vehicle Data Collection and Performance Evaluation.
Awards
- Excellence in Research Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison – 2026
- Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison – 2026
- Outstanding Undergraduates (Merit), Huazhong University of Science and Technology – 2022
- The 1988th Alumni Association Scholarship (Best Research Individual), Huazhong University of Science and Technology – 2022
- Third Prize, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Outstanding Undergraduates Annual Meeting – 2021
- Yang Ye Alumni Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology – 2021
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China – 2020
Presentations
Invited Talks
- Zhou, H. Developing fundamental diagrams for urban air mobility traffic based on physical experiments. UIUC graduate student seminar, online, March 2026.
- Zhou, H. Developing fundamental diagrams for urban air mobility traffic based on physical experiments. FAMU-FSU graduate student seminar, online, January 2026.
Oral Presentations
- Zhou, H. Developing fundamental diagrams for urban air mobility traffic based on physical experiments. Next-Generation Transport Systems Conference (NGTS 2026), West Lafayette, May 2026.
- Ma, C., Zhou, H. Enhancing automated vehicle safety through a closed-loop accelerated testing framework. SAE 2025 Annual World Congress Experience (WCX), Detroit, Michigan, April 2025.
- Huang, H., Zhou, H. Online physical enhanced residual learning for connected autonomous vehicles platoon centralized control. 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 2024.
- Zhou, H. An exact algorithm for the stochastic multi-visit traveling salesman problem with drone. 14th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), online, July 2022.
- Zhou, H. An exact algorithm for the two-echelon vehicle routing problem with drones. Outstanding Undergraduates Annual Scientific Meeting in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, December 2021.
- Zhou, H. Two-echelon vehicle routing problem with time windows and simultaneous pickup and delivery. 4th Conference of Intelligent Optimization and Scheduling, Changsha, Hunan, June 2021.