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Xiaopeng Li

Xiaopeng Li

Harvey D. Spangler Professor
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Dr. Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li is currently Harvey D. Spangler Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an affiliate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). He directs the USDOT Rural Autonomous Vehicle Program for People Movement. Before joining UW-Madison, he served as the director of one USDOT national university transportation center, the National Institute for Congestion Reduction (NICR). He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. He has led a number of federal (e.g., NSF, USDOT, USDOE), state, and industry grants, mostly as the PI, with a total budget of over $35 million in addition to over $25 million local matching. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is a fellow of ASCE and a senior member of IEEE. He serves as an area or associate editor for multiple peer review journals, such as ASCE Journal of Urban Planning & Development, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Transportation Research Part E, IEEE TITS, IEEE ITSM, ASCE . He also chairs the IEEE ITSS Emerging Transportation Technology Testing committee. His major research interests include modeling and field experiments of connected, electric, and automated vehicles, transportation and infrastructure systems analysis. He received a B.S. degree (2006) in civil engineering from Tsinghua University, China, an M.S. degree (2007), and a Ph.D. (2011) degree in civil engineering along with an M.S. degree (2010) in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, USA.

Department

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Contact

1218, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI

  • PhD 2011, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • MS 2010, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • MS 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • BE 2006, Tsinghua University

  • Automated, connected, electric, and shared (ACES) transportation systems modeling
  • Connected automated vehicles (CAV) data analytics, modeling, and field experiments
  • Modeling of interdependent infrastructure systems

Affiliated Departments

  • 2025 TRB, Best Paper Award 104th TRB Annual Meeting
  • 2024 Transportation Science, Meritorious Service Award
  • 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvey D. Spangler Professorship
  • 2024 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), ASCE Fellow
  • 2022 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC), Milton Pikarsky Memorial Ph.D. Award for Dr. Qianwen Li’s Dissertation
  • 2022 IEEE, IEEE Senior Member
  • 2022 Communications in Transportation Research, Best Paper Runner Up Award
  • 2021 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC), Neville A. Parker Award in the field of Science and Technology for Qianwen Li’s Master Project
  • 2021 University of South Florida, Vasant Surti Faculty Fellowship
  • 2021 Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 6th China International College Students ‘Internet+’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
  • 2021 Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), Second prize, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) Research Lightning Talk Competition
  • 2020 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC), Charley Wootan Memorial – Masters Award to Zhiwei Chen’s MS Thesis
  • 2020 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC), Neville A. Parker – Science & Technology Award to Xiaowei Shi’s Paper
  • 2020 University of South Florida, USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award
  • 2020 University of South Florida, USF College of Engineering Senior Outstanding Achievement Research Award
  • 2020 Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A 2020 Best Paper Award
  • 2019 Transportation Research Part B, Ranked 24th among the Top 50 Authors from 1979-2019
  • 2019 IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2017 USF Research & Innovation, Incentive Award
  • 2016 University of South Florida, Susan A. Bracken Faculty Fellowship
  • 2015 National Science Foundation, NSF Career Award
  • 2013 Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, MSU Nominee
  • 2011 Travel Analysis Section, the 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, ● Best Doctoral Dissertation Presentation Award
  • 2010 Federal Highway Administration, USDOT, Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship
  • 2009 UIUC, Chester P. Siess Award for Scholarly Achievement and Promise for Research
  • 2007 UIUC, Graduate School Conference Travel Award
  • 2006 UIUC, Departmental Fellowship
  • 2004 Tsinghua University, Scholarship for Excellence in Study, Second Prize
  • 2003 Tsinghua University, Scholarship for Excellence in Study, Third Prize
  • 2002 China National Government, China National Government Scholarship, Second Prize

  • Liu, C., Liu, Z., Xu, Z., & Li, X. (2024). A multistep cooperative lane change strategy for connected and autonomous vehicle platoons departing from dedicated lanes. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 165, 104720.
  • Zhou, H., Ma, K., Liang, S., Li, X., & Qu, X. (2024). A unified longitudinal trajectory dataset for automated vehicle. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1123.
  • Long, K., Shi, H., Chen, Z., Liang, Z., Li, X., & de Souza, F. (2024). Bi-scale car-following model calibration based on corridor-level trajectory. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 186, 103497.
  • Liu, C., Xu, Z., Liu, Z., Li, X., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Decentralized Multi-Vehicle Motion Planning for Platoon Forming in Mixed Traffic Using Monte Carlo Tree Search. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Chen, Z., Stuart, A. L., Guo, Y., Zhang, Y., & Li, X. (2024). Distributional equity impacts of automated vehicles: A disaggregated approach. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 167, 104828.
  • Li, Y., Shi, X., & Li, X. (2024). Effect of riding experience on changing opinions toward connected and autonomous vehicle safety--Evidence from field experiments. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour, 105, 491--504.
  • Zhou, H., Huang, H., Zhang, P., Shi, H., Long, K., & Li, X. (2024). Online Physical Enhanced Residual Learning for Connected Autonomous Vehicles Platoon Centralized Control. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11468.
  • Long, K., Shi, H., Zhou, Y., & Li, X. (2024). Physics Enhanced Residual Policy Learning (PERPL) for safety cruising in mixed traffic platooning under actuator and communication delay. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15595.
  • Han, Y., Ma, X., Yu, B., Li, Q., Zhang, R., & Li, X. (2024). Planning two-dimensional trajectories for modular bus enroute docking. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 192, 103769.
  • Yao, H., Li, X., Li, Q., & Yu, C. (2024). Safety aware neural network for connected and automated vehicle operations. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 192, 103780.

  • CIV ENGR 570 - Connected and Automated Transportation Systems (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 574 - Traffic Control (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Summer 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 679 - Special Topics in Transportation and City Planning (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 574 - Traffic Control (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)