Dr. Jiaqi Ma is an Associate Professor at the Samueli School of Engineering of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has led and managed many research projects funded by U.S. DOT, NSF, state DOTs, and other federal/state/local programs covering areas of smart transportation systems, such as cooperative driving automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), large-scale traffic system modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence and advanced computing applications in transportation. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Impacts Committee, Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Smart Mobility and Transportation 5.0.

Dr. Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li is currently an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). He is the director for one USDOT national university transportation center, National Institute for Congestion Reduction (NICR). His major research interests include automated vehicle traffic control and connected & interdependent infrastructure systems. He has served as the PI or a co-PI for a number of federal (NSF, USDOT, USDOE), local (e.g., state DOTs, UTCs, I-4 Corridor Program), and industry grants, amounting to a total budget over $15 million. He has published around 70 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has served as a member on the Transportation Network Modeling Committee (ADB30) and the Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and an Associate Editor for IIE Transactions and has also served on the editorial boards for Transportation Research Part B, Part C, Part E, the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, etc. check http://ce.eng.usf.edu/facultyandstaff/xiaopengLi.htm for more information.

Alireza Talebpour received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, in 2015. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on theoretical and experimental studies of human-automated vehicle interactions and he is the vehicle development lead in one of the USDOT Automated Driving Demonstration (ADS) grants, AVA: Automated Vehicles for All.

Soomin Woo is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on optimal operation and planning of the transportation and energy networks that fully utilize the benefit of connected and electric vehicles.