Michigan Traffic Lab
University of Michigan
Henry Liu, Ph.D.
Director, Mcity
Director, Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (USDOT Region 5 UTC)
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Research Professor, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
The Director of Michigan Traffic Lab, Prof. Henry Liu, is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Mcity at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (USDOT Region 5 University Transportation Center). From July 2017 to August 2019, he took a leave of absence from the University of Michigan and served as Chief Scientist on Smart Transportation for DiDi, one of the leading mobility service providers in the world. While he was with DiDi, he led and managed the Smart Transportation Business Unit. Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000 and his Bachelor degree in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in 1993. Prof. Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles. Professor Liu has nurtured a new generation of scholars, and some of his PhD students and postdocs have joined first class universities such as Columbia University, Purdue University, RPI, etc. Prof. Liu is the managing editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
03/22/2023
The paper titled "Dense Reinforcement Learning for Safety Validation of Autonomous Vehicles" was published in Nature and featured on the cover of March 23, 2023 Issue. This research was led by Professor Henry Liu, Director of Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), and Director of Mcity.
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02/21/2023
The Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), based in Ann Arbor and led by U-M, will receive a $15 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to renew and expand its operations. Prof. Henry Liu will continue serving as the director of CCAT.
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