About PI

Work Experience

• Assistant Director, Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Zhejiang University (May 2026-date)
• Hundred Talents Program Professor, Zhejiang University (Mar. 2026—date)
• Research Fellow, National University of Singapore (Jul. 2025—Feb. 2026)
• Research Associate, The University of Hong Kong (May 2025—Jun. 2025)
• Research Assistant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Mar. 2021—Aug. 2021)

Research Interests

• Air-ground collaborative transportation systems
• Connected and automated transportation systems
• Intelligent perception and control
• Stochastic modeling and optimization
• Artificial intelligence

Teaching

• Urban traffic management and control and big data analysis (ZJU)
• CIVL2111 Transportation engineering (HKU, TA)
• CIVL6047 Traffic management and control (HKU, TA)
• CIVL6046 Traffic flow theory (HKU, TA)
• ENGG1320 Engineers in the modern world (HKU, TA)

Awards

• Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2025-2026 (September 2026), The University of Hong Kong
• Honourable Mention of the HKSTS Outstanding Dissertation Award (December 2025), HKSTS
• Award of Conference Support for Research Postgraduate Students (June 2024), The University of Hong Kong
• Award of Conference Support for Research Postgraduate Students (Aug. 2023), The University of Hong Kong
• Outstanding Master’s Dissertation (Jul. 2022), China Highway & Transportation Society
• Postgraduate Scholarship (Sep. 2021), The University of Hong Kong
• Outstanding Master’s Dissertation (Jun. 2021), Tsinghua University
• Jiang Zhen Scholarship (The First-Class Scholarship) (Dec. 2020), Tsinghua University
• Foxconn Scholarship (Nov. 2019), Tsinghua University
• The Third-Class Scholarship & Triple-A Student Honor (Dec. 2017), China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
• The Third-Class Scholarship & Triple-A Student Honor (Dec. 2015), China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
• First prize of the 14th National Robot Competition in North China division (Jul. 2015), Central School Department of the Communist Youth League & Secretariat of the All-China Students’ Federation

Editorship

• Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (2026-date)
• Young Area Editor, Autonomous Transportation Research (2026-date)
• Young Editorial Board Member, Chain (2025-date)

Membership

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE ITSS)
• Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Member, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society
• Affiliate Fellow, Institute of Transport Studies (ITS) of The University of Hong Kong

Professional Services

• Deputy Director-General, Traffic and Transportation Management Division of the Society of Management Science and Engineering of China (2026-date)
• Chair, Seminar “Connected and Automated Vehicles-driven Intelligent Transportation Management and Control” in The Series of Seminars of the Intelligent Transportation Branch of Zhejiang Artificial Intelligence Society. April 28, 2026.
• Chair, Keynote session in Workshop “Advanced Modeling, Evaluation, and Simulation of Interactions in Mixed Traffic Comprising Pedestrians, Automated Vehicles, and Human-driven Vehicles” (53gvj) in the 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). September 24, 2024.
• Chair, Regular session “Advanced vehicle safety” (AVSS01) in the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). September 27, 2023.
• Chair, Young Scholar TechTalk, The University of Hong Kong. April 25, 2023.
• Organizer, Workshop “Low-altitude Transportation Systems: Modeling, Operations, and Policy” (Code gqupy) in the 29th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2026.
• Organizer, Invited Session “Trustworthy AI for Traffic Sensing and Control” (iu6f2) in the 29th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2026.
• Organizer, Workshop “From Interface to Intelligence HMI 2.0 for Socially Compliant Autonomous Vehicles” (W6) in the 28th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2025.
• Organizer, Workshop “Advanced Modeling, Evaluation, and Simulation of Interactions in Mixed Traffic Comprising Pedestrians, Automated Vehicles, and Human-driven Vehicles” (53gvj) in the 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2024.
• Organizer, Workshop “Data-driven and Empirical Research for Emerging Mixed Traffic of Automated Vehicles and Human-driven Vehicles” (WS12) in the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2023.
• Reviewer, Transportation Research Part B/C/E, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, etc. (more than 30 international journals and conferences)

Invited Talks

• Jia S.. Modeling connected vehicle penetration rate uncertainty: theory and applications. The 4th Annual Conference on ENGINEERING Management. Jinan, China. July 4, 2026.
• Jia S.. Modeling connected vehicle penetration rate uncertainty: theory and applications. The 8th Transportation Engineering and Management Symposium for Young Scholars. Kunming, China. April 25, 2026.
• Jia S.. Connected vehicle-based adaptive signal control: a novel stochastic framework, Workshop “Automated Mobility in Mixed Traffic – Emerging Mixed Autonomy in the Era of AI” (W11) in the 28th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). Gold Coast, Australia. November 18, 2025.
• Jia S.. Connected and automated transportation systems for smart cities: uncertainty-aware traffic perception and control. Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Zhejiang University, China. June 30, 2025.
• Jia S.. Connected and automated transportation systems for smart cities: uncertainty-aware traffic sensing and control. Intelligent Transportation Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China. June 27, 2025.
• Jia S.. Uncertainty in connected vehicle penetration rate estimation: advanced modeling and applications for traffic signal optimization. Mobility Transformation Lab, University of Michigan, USA. November 1, 2024.
• Jia S.. Uncertainty estimation of the connected vehicle penetration rate: modeling complex residual-vehicle effects. Student Seminar, Institute of Transport Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. September 27, 2024.
• Jia S.. Modeling uncertainty of connected vehicle penetration rate: theory and application. Young Scholar TechTalk, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. September 12, 2023.
• Jia S.. Intelligent perception and control in modern transportation systems. Department of Electronic Information Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China. July 15, 2023.
• Jia S.. Intelligent perception in modern transportation systems. Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China. July 14, 2023.

Grants

• Modeling of uncertain traffic states and joint stochastic optimization of connected and automated vehicles and traffic signals under low penetration rate conditions, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No. 72601363, 2027-2029. PI.
• Intelligent perception and optimization of urban traffic through road-air cooperation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2026-2028. PI.
• The Start-up Grant of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University, 2026-2031. PI.
• Adaptive signal control based on real-time estimation of the penetration rate in a connected environment, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR Government, Project No. 17205822, 2023-2025. Participated.
• Safety-oriented cross-terminal and multi-modal universal collaborative perception theory and method in a connected environment, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Project No. 2022ZD0162200, 2023-2025. Participated.
• Intelligent monitoring and early warning technology and demonstration of operating vehicle and ship drivers’ suitable status, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Project No. 2021YFC3001500, 2021-2024. Participated.
• Research on traffic signal intelligent control theory and method for a new generation of vehicle-road cooperation environment, Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No. U21B2089, 2022-2024. Participated.
• Research on group synergy behavior of heterogeneous traffic subjects, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Project No. 2018YFE0102800, 2019-2021. Participated.
• Evaluation theory and method for traffic safety system under mixed traffic comprising automated vehicles and human-driven vehicles, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No. 71671100, 2017-2020. Participated.
• Spatiotemporal trajectory association fusion and anomaly detection for heterogeneous traffic objects, National Engineering Laboratory Open Fund Project, Electronic Science Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Group, 2018-2020. Participated.

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