• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (2016), Columbia University, USA

• M.S. in Civil Engineering (2009), Tsinghua University, China

• B.S. in Civil Engineering (2006), Tsinghua University, China

• 2025.01 - Present: Associate Researcher, School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University.

• 2023.07 - 2024.12: Assistant Researcher, School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University.

• 2017.01 - 2023.07: Assistant Researcher, China Academy of Transportation Sciences.

Research Interests

• Modern Intelligent Transportation;

• Low-altitude Technology & Engineering;

• Transportation Digital Twin;

• UAV Swarm Perception & Real-time Communication.

Grants

• Multi-scale Simulation Technology for Autonomous Transportation Systems, National Key R&D Program of China (Sub-project PI), 2023-2026.

• Situation Awareness System Technology, Innovation Special Zone Project of Advanced Technology R&D Program (Key Participant), 2022-2024.

• Research on Vehicle-in-the-Loop Testing and Evaluation System for Autonomous Vehicles Based on Virtual-Real Combination, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Project, Key Participant), 2024-2029.

• BIM Application Demonstration and Management Platform Development for Tourist Highways, Fundamental Research Funds for Central Public-interest Scientific Institutions (Key Participant), 2019-2020.

• BIM Modeling and System Development for Xiangxi Airport Access Road Project, Key Science & Technology Project of Transportation Industry (Participant), 2018-2020.

• Fei, Yang, Liang Wang*, and Xiaobo Qu. "Event triggered cooperative trajectory coordination for platooning among heterogeneous vehicles." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 173 (2025): 105049.

• Zhao, Yiyue, Liang Wang*, Xinyu Yun, Chen Chai, Zhiyu Liu, Wenxuan Fan, Xiao Luo, Yang Liu, and Xiaobo Qu. "Enhanced scene understanding and situation awareness for autonomous vehicles based on semantic segmentation." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 54, no. 11 (2024): 6537-6549.

• Yang, Lan, Zhiqiang Hu, Liang Wang*, Yang Liu, Jiangbo He, Xiaobo Qu, Xiangmo Zhao, and Shan Fang. "Entire route eco-driving method for electric bus based on rule-based reinforcement learning." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 189 (2024): 103636.

• Zhu, Jie, Liang Wang*, Ivana Tasic, and Xiaobo Qu. "Improving freeway merging efficiency via flow-level coordination of connected and autonomous vehicles." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 25, no. 7 (2024): 6703-6715.

• Liu, Jiahui, Yang Liu, Liang Wang*, and Xiaobo Qu. "A Survey and Comprehensive Taxonomy of Tire-Road Adhesion Coefficient Estimation for Intelligent Vehicles." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2025).

• Zhi, Yue, Heqi Wang, and Liang Wang*. "A state of health estimation method for electric vehicle Li-ion batteries using GA-PSO-SVR." Complex & Intelligent Systems 8, no. 3 (2022): 2167-2182.

• Wang Liang, Jiaming Wu, Xiaopeng Li, Zhaohui Wu, and Lin Zhu. "Longitudinal control for person-following robots." Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles 5, no. 3 (2022): 88-98.

• Zhang, Yongsheng, Chen Tu, Kun Gao, and Liang Wang*. "Multisensor information fusion: Future of environmental perception in intelligent vehicles." Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (2024).

• Youth Talent, China Academy of Transportation Sciences (2022).

• 1st Prize, 4th China Virtual Reality Contest (2021).

• 3rd Prize (Micro-video Category), "2021 National Highway Excellent Popular Science Works" (2021).

• Recommended Paper, 2024 World Transport Convention (WTC2024).

• 3rd Prize (Enterprise Innovation Group), 3rd Virtual Reality Technology and Application Innovation Competition (2020).

• Excellent Award, Ministry of Transport Popular Science Explanation Contest (2023).

• Certificate of Best Paper，2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation (AIAT 2025)

• Member of the Autonomous Traffic Control and Safety Committee, Chinese Institute of Command and Control (2025-Present).

• Session Chair, 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment (APTE 2025);

• Session Chair, 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation (AIAT 2025)

• Committee Member, 2nd United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference (2021).