Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama
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Email: junliu1234@gmail.com
Dr. Jun Liu is currently working for Virginia Department of Transportation as a travel demand modeler and transportation planner. Dr. Liu will join the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) as an Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering, starting in Fall 2018.
Dr. Liu has worked as a post-doc at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Transportation, and a Master's degree in Statistics from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His research focuses on innovations related to intelligent transportation systems, connected and automated vehicles, transportation planning, traffic safety and operations, and sustainable transportation. He is a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Visualization in Transportation and a member of TRB Committee on Geo-spatial Data Acquisition Technologies. He has served as a key researcher in projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Transportation, US Department of Energy, Tennessee Department of Transportation, Texas Department of Transportation and Virginia Department of Transportation.
Education & Academic Training:
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Post-doc, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
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Major Topic: Modeling Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
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Post-doc, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Major Topic: Big Data Analytics for Connected Vehicles
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Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Major: Civil Engineering (Transportation)
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Dissertation: Driving Volatility in Instantaneous Driving Behaviors - Studies Using Large-Scale Trajectory Data
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M.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Major: Statistics
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M.S., Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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Major: Transportation Planning and Management
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B.S., Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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Major: Transportation Engineering
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Working Experience:
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2016 - date, Travel Demand Modeler, Virginia Department of Transportation, USA
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2016, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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2015, Research Coordinator, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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2013-2015, Lecturer/Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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2011-2015, Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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2008-2011, Research Assistant, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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2008-2009, Teaching Assistant, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
