Dr. Yunlong Zhang

Brief Bio

Dr. Yunlong Zhang is a Professor at the Zachry Department of Civil & Environment Engineering at Texas A&M University and also holds a joint appointment with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Dr. Zhang has more than 35 years of professional experience as an engineer, educator, and researcher in transportation engineering. He has conducted scholarly and practical research in many areas of transportation engineering, including modeling, simulation, and analysis of traffic flow, traffic control devices and signal systems, safety analysis, and modeling and evaluation of advanced technologies such as connected and autonomous vehicles. One of his particular strengths is artificial intelligence applications in transportation, and he served as a long time member and research sub-committee chair of TRB’s committee Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing. He has published over 130 journal papers including many papers in top journals such as IEEE transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Transportation Research Parts A, B, C, D, E and F.

 

Education

Ph.D., Transportation Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1996

M.S., Highway and Traffic Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 1987

B.S., Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 1984

 

Professional Experience

Academic

• Professor, Texas A&M University, 2016-Present
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, 2010–2016
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2004–2010
• Assistant/Associate Research Scientist, Texas Transportation Institute, 2004–Present
• Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, 2000–2004
• Research Associate, Center for Transportation Research, Virginia Tech, 1996
• Lecturer, Department of Transportation Engineering, Southeast University, 1987–1992

Industry

• Senior Transportation Engineer, ITT Industries, Systems Division, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1996–2000