About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar University at Beaumont, TX. My research looks at stochastic transportation system modeling and analysis, big data analysis, GIS applications, waterway transportation, electric vehicles. Please check Google Scholar for my recent publications. 

My research received the supports from Texas Department of Transportation, Sabine-Neches Navigation District, the Texas General Land Office, the Center for Advances in Port Management of Lamar University, the Center for Midstream Management and Science of Lamar University, the Center for Resilience of Lamar University, and Lamar University Research Enhancement Grant, etc. 

I am now serves as the member for one standing National Transportation Research Board Committees: Marine Safety and Human Factors (AW040). I am also the member of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE-ITSC). I am also the reviewer of a series highly ranked academic journals in Transportation Engineering.

I teaches a variery of courses covering transportation engineering, project management, engineering probabilities and statistics, GIS, AutoCAD and survering.

I received my Ph.D. degree in Transportation from Northwestern University, and two M.S. degrees from Carnegie mellon University (Civil Engineering) and Tsinghua University in China (Management Science and Engineering). I received my  B.S degree in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University.