Dr. Yinhai Wang is a professor in transportation engineering at Civil and Environmental Engineering and adjunct professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Washington (UW). Dr. Wang was the 2018-2019 president of the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) for American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), chair for the Transportation Research Board AI and Advanced Computing Applications Committee from 2021 to 2025, and an elected governor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) from 2011 through 2013. He is chair for the ASCE Center on Technical Advancement, co-editor-in-chief for the AI for Transportation Journal, the Connected and Automated Transportation Special Section Editor for ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems, and vice president for Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). His active research fields include AI methods and applications, traffic sensing, transportation safety, transportation data science, edge computing, traffic operations and simulation, and smart urban mobility. He is a professional engineer registered in Washington, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and a fellow of both IEEE and ITE. He has been recognized by numerous awards, such as the 2023 ASCE Francis C. Turner award and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Innovation in Education Award for 2018.
