Professional Activities

Editorial Board

Committee Membership/Board of Directors

Member, Transportation Network Modeling Committee, Transportation Research Board
Member, AI Committee, ASCE
Member, Advanced Technologies Committee, ASCE
Member, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) Impacts Committee, ASCE
Member, Street and Highway Operations Committee, ASCE
Member, ITS American Big Data Start-up
Director of Communications, Association of Tsinghua Alumni in Transportation
Board of Directors member, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association

Referee services

Panel member,  National Science Foundation
Referee, Regional University Transportation Center research awards
Referee, Transportation Research Part A
Referee
, Transportation Research Part B
Referee, Transportation Research Part C
Referee, Transportation Research Part D
Referee, Transportation Research Part E
Referee, Management Science
Referee, Transportation
Referee, Transportation Science
Referee, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operation
Referee, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Referee, Network and Spatial Economics
Referee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Referee, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Referee, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
Referee
, Transport Policy
Referee, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
Referee, Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
Referee, Journal of Advanced Transportation
Referee, Public Transport
Referee, Journal of Advanced Transportation
Referee, Journal of Transportation Engineering ASCE
Referee,  Journal of Infrastructure Systems ASCE
Referee, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 
Referee, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
Referee, Journal of Transportation Research Record
Referee,  Journal of Transport Geography
Referee, Tourism Management
Referee, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
Referee, Research in Transportation Economics
Referee, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems
Referee, International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory
Referee, International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Associate Editor, COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP), 2010/2015

Media coverage

Quoted by Weirton Daily Times on work zone safety.
Interviewed by Route-fifty and Govtech on work zone safety, also reported by CMU.
Fujitsu Press Release. Research on digital twins. citiestoday
Quoted by WTAE on a local traffic impact study.
From Twitter to traffic predictor. CMU
Carnegie Mellon University: Driving civil and environmental engineering forward. StudyInternational
COVID and Transportation: What's Next for the Summer and Beyond. CMU
Research on relationship between Uber and bus services. CMU
Cited on increasing ride-hailing service efficiency. Forbes
Gridwise partners with CMU to find uses for its data. Pittsburgh Business Times
Unique service helping areas with limited public transportation. WPXI
High-resolution traffic sensing using autonomous vehicles. Press release
Optimizing shared mobility service. CMU
Rural mobility service. CMU
Smart Mobility Challenge 2019. Post-gazette
CMU, North Huntingdon to join in Route 30 study to improve mobility.  Triblive  Editorial
Improving ridesharing predictions. CMU
Next-generation delivery networks composed of aerial drones, robots, AVs, EVs, and intelligent delivery zones. CMU
Can AI predict parking availability? VenturebeatECN
How data from multiple sources can be integrated and used to analyze travel behavior and improve infrastructure to keep traffic moving. Post-gazette
What does midnight electricity use tell us about morning traffic congestion? CMUCityLabGCNTech Xplore
Ride on through: leveraging data for system decision making
Incredible Impacts of the Mobility Data Analytics Center
Lead Mobility Data Analytics Center and Uber Movement partnership, quoted in Triblive , Post-gazette, and CMU
Estimating traffic today for better roads tomorrow

Quoted in the news on how to evaluate the traffic impact of new development projects
Quoted in the news on how to better prepare mass evacuations
Homegrown smart mobility solutions
Making cities bikeable
Quoted on the news regarding the impact of bike share programs.
Quoted on the news on how the social media data can help public agencies' smart decisions
Research interests and innovation in a short video clip
Quoted on the news and press release regarding traffic impact of the Greenfield Bridge closure
UC Davis Alum Sean Qian Pursues his Passions: Research, Data and Teaching at Carnegie Mellon