He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. He worked as a postdoc fellow with Dr. C. Michael Walton at Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at The University of Texas at Austin. His major research interests include transportation big data analytics, active traffic and demand management, and connected and autonomous vehicle applications. He has 10 years of experience in ITS sensor and data system development and deployment. He contributed to the deployment of cellphone based traffic monitoring system in Shanghai, the development of Wisconsin WisTransporTal ITS data hub, and Foursquare location-based social network data. His research has resulted in 30 journal and more than 50 conference papers.