• June 15, 2017

    PacTrans Associate Director and Student Researcher Present at IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

    A paper jointly written by PacTrans researcher, Dr. Xuegang (Jeff) Ban and his research group, and his collaborators from the Automotive Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, China (Mr. Biao Xu, Prof. Keqiang Li, Mr. Yougang Bian, and Prof. Jianqiang Wang) recently received the Best Paper Award (2nd Prize) from the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2017. The paper titled V2I Based Cooperation between Traffic Signal and Approaching Automated Vehicles, aims to develop cooperative methods between traffic signal control systems and automated vehicles to reduce urban traffic congestion and fuel consumption. The paper is one of the two papers selected from over 300 papers submitted to the Symposium. The lead author, Mr. Biao Xu, is currently a Ph.D. student of Tsinghua University (under the supervision of Prof. Keqiang Li), who was a visiting student to Jeff Ban’s research group at UW from November 2016 – May 2017. He conducted an important part of the research during his visit at UW.