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.