Featured Profile: Hairuilong Zhang
Zhang’s area of study is Data Science with applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems.
He hopes to provide data-driven insights and solutions to traffic problems to make traffic systems safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.
View the pictures on the left for some examples of the research he has conducted.
Muhammad Adeel
Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UTK
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Adeel’s research aims to address critical challenges in transportation engineering, including improving road safety, enhancing traffic flow, and developing intelligent transportation systems that can adapt to the evolving needs of society. By incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into his work, he hopes to bring about significant advancements in how we understand and manage traffic, reduce accidents, and create more sustainable urban mobility solutions.
Ashkan Neshagaran
Graduate Research Assistant
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Neshagaran is responsible for supporting various research projects and assisting in the collection, analysis, and documentation of research data both independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Other responsibilities include preparing research reports, presentations, and assisting with grant applications.
Changwha Oh
Graduate Research Assistant
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Provides GIS, data analysis and modeling support for the Tennessee Model User Group (TNMUG). He assists Dr. Jerry Everett in performing GIS analysis for traffic counts, special generators and other transportation related data. Additionally, Changwha provides research and analysis support in the development of TnTown, a standardized travel demand model for small MPOs in Tennessee. He also participates in TNMUG meetings, training sessions and other TNMUG events.
Grady Owen
Graduate Research Assistant
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Grady is assisting Dr. Jerry Everett as they perform a transportation skills gap analysis and inventory for CR2C2. Additionally, he will assist with analyzing the results of the inventory to determine missing components in the existing training/education offerings.
Saurav Parajuli
Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant studying transportation safety with a focus on improving the safety of vulnerable road users, particularly pedestrians.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Parajuli’s study aims to enhance transportation safety to foster safer multimodal urban and suburban environments. He hopes to highlight the critical issue of declining pedestrian safety, influencing both public awareness and policy change towards more inclusive and proactive transportation systems.
Bibek Poudel
Graduate Research Assistant – enrolled in the EECS department as a Ph.D. student.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
So far, Poudel’s study has been on using reinforcement learning based autonomous vehicles to control and coordinate human vehicle traffic. In the future, he will study how urban environments can be redesigned specifically for autonomous vehicles. His goal is to accelerate the advent of autonomous vehicles in society.
His personal site: https://poudel-bibek.github.io/
Hairuilong “Harry” Zhang
Graduate Research Assistant – Data Science with applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Zhang hopes to provide data-driven insights and solutions to traffic problems to make traffic systems safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.
Jingtao Zhong
PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant studying Pavement Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Zhong is passionate about the AI application for automatic pavement condition evaluation, he has published several papers about automatic pavement distress detection based on deep learning.
He would like to make a difference in AI technology to contribute to the development of intelligent transportation systems.