Lili Du, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering
Contact
Email: lilidu@ufl.edu
Research Interests
Connected and autonomous vehicle systems, Big Data Analytics for Transportation Systems, Interdependent Infrastructure network modeling, Transportation system analysis and network modeling, Multi-Modal Transportation System Sustainability, Traffic signal control and system operation, Dynamic and green vehicle routing
About
Honors and Awards
- NRC Renowned Research Associate Award, FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 2023.
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2016) for the research on Integrated Online Coordinated Routing and Decentralized Control for Connected Vehicle Systems
- Finalist of Illinois Institute of Technology inaugural Nayar Prize (2015) for the research on Driverless City Project
- National Science Foundation Award, CMMI 1436786 (2014) for Collaborative Research: Coordinated Real-Time Traffic Management Based on Dynamic Information Propagation and Aggregation under Connected Vehicle Systems
Education
- Ph.D., Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008.
- M.S., Operations Research and Statistics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007.
- M.S., Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2003.
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shanxi, China, 1998.