{"id":23,"date":"2015-11-03T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.eng.ufl.edu\/faculty-site\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:36:56","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Chenlu Pu<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Ph.D. Student, Civil Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interest: network modeling, machine learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: cpu1@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mukundhan Narasimhan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Ph.D. Student, Civil Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interest: System-optimal control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: mnarasimhan@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graduated Students<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Yuqiang Ning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Robust and Resilient Distributed Coordinated Route Navigation Systems for Traffic Congestion Mitigation in Unstable and Malicious Cyber Environments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: y.ning@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jiahua Qiu (Ph.D.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Meta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Fleet Management for Mobile Charging On-Demands Service: Solutions for Vehicle Routing, Motion Control, and Rebalancing Problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: jq22@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hanyu Zhang (Ph.D.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Software Development Engineer II, DiDi Autonomous Driving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Platooning Technology: Cooperative Lane-Change, Intersection-Passing, and Platoon-Formation Strategy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: hanyu.zhang@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephen Spana (Ph.D.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Transportation Engineer\/Planner, Fehr & Peers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Information Perturbation for Congestion Management under Connected Vehicle Coordinated Routing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: sspana@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wang Peng (Ph.D.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Data scientist, Linde<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Clustering-Aided Approaches for Traffic Congestion Management: CAV Coordinated Routing, Carpooling, and Mixed-Modal Carpooling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: pengw@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hanyi Yang (Ph.D.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Postdoc, University of Hawaii<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Public Event Identification on Traffic Data Using Machine Learning Approach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: hyang55@hawk.iit.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Siyuan Gong (Ph.D.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Associate Professor, Chang’an University <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Coordinated Driving in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle System – Optimal Advance Lane Change Zones and Coordinated Platoon Car Following Control<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: ssgong@chd.edu.cn; CV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kaitai Yang (Master)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Ph.D. student, University of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: A Data-Driven Traffic Shockwave Detection Approach Based on Vehicle Trajectories Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: yangkaitai@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lu Wang (Master)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Dissertation Title: Information-Traffic Coupled Cell Transmission Model for Information Spreading Dynamics over Vehicular Ad Hoc Network on Road Segments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: lwang121@hawk.iit.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shuwei Chen (Master)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Current Position: Guangxi Transportation Science & Technology Group Co. Ltd. Guangxi, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dissertation Title: Simulation Study of The Impact of Local Real-Time Traffic Information Provision Strategy in Connected Vehicle Systems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sw2h19@hotmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nelson Doucouret<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Internship Student (2016 Summer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interest: Fictitious Play in Transportation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:nelson.doucouret@outlook.fr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ph.d. students Chenlu Pu   Ph.D. Student, Civil Engineering Research interest: network modeling, machine learning Email: cpu1@ufl.edu     Mukundhan Narasimhan   Ph.D. Student, Civil Engineering Research interest: System-optimal control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles Email: mnarasimhan@ufl.edu     Graduated Students Yuqiang Ning   Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Dissertation Title: Robust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/lilidu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}