TransTech Lab People
Director
Dr. Hongchao Liu
Dr. Hongchao Liu is a professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering of Texas Tech University. Prior to joining Texas Tech University in 2004, he spent three years working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Liu's recent research has been primarily focused on using advanced sensing technologies to enhance the efficiency of existing highway systems in terms of reducing congestion and improving safety. He is pioneering in introducing LiDAR technology to infrastructure-based detection and cooperative driving automation. His group and the partners at the University of Nevada, Reno have been designing and testing the concept of an all-user-in-the-loop system through connected roadside detection and communication with connected and autonomous vehicles. A major focus of current research is developing enabling data modeling and analytic tools, particularly, artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for accurate processing of infrastructure-based high-resolution data with enhanced computational efficiency for real-time applications.
Graduate Researchers
Yibin Zhang
Research Topic: Advanced algorithms for real-time processing of infrastructure-based LiDAR data, Intelligent Transportation Systems, traffic safety, and GIS in transportation.
Nischal Bhattarai
Research Topic: Near-crash highway safety study using high-resolution LiDAR data, traffic design and operation, traffic impact analysis, traffic safety, and GIS in tranportation.
Tamer Bataineh
Research Topic: To be determined.
Morris Igene
Research Topic: Calibration of microscopic simulation model using LiDAR trajectory data.
Members
Raghavan Nagarajan (MS Student)
Will Gardenhire (Undergraduate Student)
Luis Trejo (Undergraduate Student)
Ryan Lott (Undergraduate Student)
Alumnus
- Junxuan Zhao, Ph.D, 2019; Now as Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Dayong Wu, Ph.D, 2016; Post-Doc, 2019; Now as Associate Research Scientist at Texas A&M Institute
- Ciyun Lin, Visiting scholar, 2018; Now employed as Associate Professor at Jilin University
- Bowen Gong, Visiting scholar, 2018; Now employed as Associate Professor at Jilin University
- Bo Pang, Ph.D, 2017; Now at Maldonado-Burkett, LLP, Dallas
- Ariel Castillo, M.S., 2017; Now at TxDOT
- Xiaodong Zang, Visiting scholar, 2017; Now employed as professor at Guangzhou Unversity
- Hao Zhang, Visiting student, 2017; Now as Ph.D student at China Unversity of Geosciences, Wuhan
- Dexin Yu, Visiting scholar, 2016; Now employed as professor at Jilin Unversity
- Wesley J. Kumfer, Ph.D., 2015, Now as Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Daniel Eshue, Bachelor, 2015, Now at CH2MHill
- Julio Alvarez Hernandez, Master, 2015, Now at Transport for London
- Dali Wei, Ph.D, 2014, Now at Airbnb
- Chad Ostrander, Master, 2014; Now at Brown and Gay, Dallas, Texas
- Changwei Yuan, Visiting scholar, 2013; Now employed as professor at Chang'an Unversity
- Hao Xu, Ph.D, 2011; Post-Doc, 2013; Now employed as Associate Professor at University of Nevada, Reno
- Jared Squyres, Master, 2012; Now at Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Inc., Dallas, Texas
- Meron Shiferaw, Master, 2012; Now at Savant Group, Inc., Midland, Texas
- Henok Tezera, Master, 2011; Now at Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., Dallas, Texas
- Huaxin Gong, Ph.D, 2010; Now as a private investor
- Rhett Dollins, Master, 2010; Now as a project manager at Pogue Engineering & Development Company, Inc.
- Sai Bhargavi Chintaluri, Master, 2009
- Trey Dawson, Master, 2009
- Taylor Perrine, Master, 2009
- David Bragg, Master, 2009
- Godse Adinath, Master, 2008
- Evuri Pavan Reddy, Master, 2008
- Shuaiyu Chen, Ph.D, 2007, Now at Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc., Houston, Texas
- Jie (Jack) Zhang, Master, 2007; Now: KBR Inc., Dallas, Texas
- Debakanta Mishra, Master, 2006; Now: PhD program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jenna Mccracken, Master, 2006
- Jennifer Ward, Master, 2006
- Joseph Joo, Master, 2006
TransTech Lab
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Address
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
Email
hongchao.liu@ttu.edu