Fellow, IEEE
Prof. Bo Ai, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Bo Ai (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively.,He received the Honor of Excellent Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007. He was a Visiting Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2015. He is currently a Full Professor with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, where he is the Dean of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering. He is one of the directors for Beijing “Urban Rail Operation Control System” International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and a Backbone Member of the Innovative Engineering based jointly granted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He has authored or coauthored eight books and authored over 300 academic research articles in his research area. He holds 26 invention patents. He is the research team leader of 26 national projects. He has won some important scientific research prizes. Five papers have been the ESI highly cited paper. He has been notified by the Council of Canadian Academies. His research interests include the research and applications of channel measurement and channel modeling and dedicated mobile communications for rail traffic systems.,Dr. Ai is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He received the Distinguished Youth Foundation and Excellent Youth Foundation from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Qiushi Outstanding Youth Award by the Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation, the New Century Talents by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award by the Chinese Ministry of Railways, and the Science and Technology New Star by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission. He has been listed as one of the Top 1% authors in his field all over the world, based on the Scopus database. He has also been feature interviewed by the Electronics Letters (IET). He is the IEEE VTS Beijing Chapter Vice Chair and the IEEE BTS Xi’an Chapter Chair. He was a co-chair or a session/track chair of many international conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and an Editorial Committee Member of the Wireless Personal Communications journal. He is the Lead Guest Editor of Special Issues on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Antennas and Propagations Letters, and the International Journal on Antennas and Propagations. He is an IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer.
Prof. Zongzhi Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Zongzhi Li received BE from Chang’an University, Xi’an, China; MSCE and Ph.D. (December 2003) in transportation and infrastructure systems engineering, as well as MSIE in operations research (May 2002) from Purdue University, USA. After completing the Ph.D. study, he joined Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory (TOPS Lab) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA as a Postdoctoral researcher until August 2004 after accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA. Currently, he holds full professor rank with tenure and serves as the Director of Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Research (STAIR) Center, and Transportation Engineering Laboratory at IIT. He has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for over US$4.26 million of research studies on multimodal travel demand and transportation system performance modeling, asset management, and network economics funded by U.S. Federal and state agencies and the private sector. He has supervised nearly 80 M.S. and Ph.D. students; published 4 books, including Transportation Asset Management: Methodology and Applications (ISBN: 978-148-221-052-1) as the world’s first graduate-level textbook in the area; and Megacity Mobility: Integrated Urban Transportation Development and Management (ISBN: 978-036-736-358-1), 3 book chapters, and nearly 80 referred papers; developed 3 software packages; and holds 7 U.S. patents. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Infrastructure Systems, an associate editor of the Elsevier Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, and a handling editor of the TRB/Sage Journal of Transportation Research Record. Dr. Li was a recipient of numerous awards, including ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize (2011), IIT Sigma Xi Award for Research Excellence (2011), Charley V. Wootan Award given by the U.S. Council of University Transportation Centers (2000), and International Road Federation Fellowship Award (1998).