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Sikai Chen

Sky Chen

Sikai Chen Assistant Professor
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Department

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Contact

2266, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI

  • PhD 2019, Purdue University, Lyles School of Engineering
  • MS 2014, University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering
  • BE 2011, Shandong University (China), School of Civil Engineering

Affiliated Departments

  • 2023 The 23rd COTA International Conference for Transportation Professionals (CICTP2023), Best Area Editor Award
  • 2022 ASCE, ASCE T&DI Student Research Competition Award: Third Place
  • 2019 1st Annual Conference on Next-Generation Transport Systems (NGTS), Best Poster Presentation Runner-Up
  • 2019 Purdue University, Civil Engineering Best Dissertation Award
  • 2019 Purdue University, Finalist, Chorafas Foundation Award
  • 2019 Council of University Transportation Center (CUTC), Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award
  • 2018 Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs, Purdue University, Bilsland Fellowship Award
  • 2018 Purdue University, Schmidt Science Fellows (Nominated)
  • 2018 Pai Tao Yeh Fellowship
  • 2018 Purdue University, STV Civil Engineering Award
  • 2018 Purdue University, Summer Research Grant
  • 2016 College of Engineering, Purdue University, Estus H. & Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2016 Purdue University, Summer Research Grant

  • Liu, C., Sheng, Z., Li, P., Chen, S., Luo, X., & Ran, B. (2024). A distributed deep reinforcement learning-based longitudinal control strategy for connected automated vehicles combining attention mechanism. Transportation Letters, 1--17.
  • Li, P., Chen, S., Yue, L., Xu, Y., & Noyce, D. A. (2024). Analyzing relationships between latent topics in autonomous vehicle crash narratives and crash severity using natural language processing techniques and explainable XGBoost. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 203, 107605.
  • Du, R., Chen, S., Dong, J., Chen, T., Fu, X., & Labi, S. (2024). Dynamic urban traffic rerouting with fog-cloud reinforcement learning. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 39(6), 793--813.
  • Huang, Z., Sheng, Z., Ma, C., & Chen, S. (2024). Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving. Communications in Transportation Research, 4, 100127.
  • Huang, Z., Chen, S., Pian, Y., Sheng, Z., Ahn, S., & Noyce, D. A. (2024). Toward C-V2X Enabled Connected Transportation System: RSU-Based Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Labi, S., Chen, S., Dong, J., Li, Y., Sabu, J., & John, A. P. (2024). Using Virtual Reality Techniques to Investigate Interactions Between Fully Autonomous Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users. Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT).
  • Du, R., Han, K., Gupta, R., Chen, S., Labi, S., & Wang, Z. (2023). Driver monitoring-based lane-change prediction: A personalized federated learning framework. In 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (pp. 1–7).
  • Dong, J., Chen, Q., Qu, D., Lu, H., Ganlath, A., Yang, Q., Chen, S., & Labi, S. (2023). LiDAR-based Cooperative Relative Localization. In 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (pp. 1–8).
  • Chen, S., Zong, S., Chen, T., Huang, Z., Chen, Y., & Labi, S. (2023). A taxonomy for autonomous vehicles considering ambient road infrastructure. Sustainability, 15(14), 11258.
  • Wang, J., Dong, J., Chen, S., Sundaram, S., & Labi, S. (2023). Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Framework for Mobile Energy Disseminator Dispatching to Charge On-the-Road Electric Vehicles. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15656.

  • CIV ENGR 370 - Transportation Engineering (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 679 - Special Topics in Transportation and City Planning (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 370 - Transportation Engineering (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 679 - Special Topics in Transportation and City Planning (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)