Student Projects and Research

  • March 27, 2025

    PI Ji Yun Lee works to improve wildfire evacuation planning

    Article reposted from WSU Insider, written by Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.

    Computer models that take into account how people act might someday be able to predict the ensuing evacuation challenges and traffic problems that occur during wildfire emergencies.

    PacTrans researchers from Washington State University (WSU) used predictive machine-learning models to simulate how people behaved during the Tick wildfire in the Santa Clarita area of California in 2019. The research, published in Fire Technology, could improve evacuation policies and help emergency managers in fire-prone areas.

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  • May 01, 2023

    WSU Student Researcher win First Prize in Student Data Analysis Contest

    Chuang Chen, a Graduate Research Assistant from Washington State University, recently won first prize in the 2022 Long-Term Infrastructure Performance (LTIP) Student Data Analysis Contest (Pavement). Chen won with a paper titled, Key Climatic Factors Affecting Asphalt Pavement Roughness Differ in Different Climate Regions: Exploratory Analyses, which explored the use of multiple techniques for big data processing and subsequent exploratory analyses, and investigated the relationships between climatic factors and a typical asphalt pavement distress – roughness. This study also tested the hypothesis that key climatic factors affecting asphalt pavement roughness differ in different regions.

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  • Three WSU Undergraduate Researchers Present work at WSU Showcase for Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities

    Each March, WSU hosts an annual Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA). This showcase features in-person poster presentations showing nine categories of the work and results of students engaged in mentored research, scholarship, and creative activities across WSU.

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  • PacTrans Student Researcher from OSU Presents work at OSU Graduate Engineering Research Showcase

    Oregon State University Graduate Research Assistant, Logan Scott-Deter was recently invited to present work on bicycle crash mitigation as part of the 2023 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. Scott-Deter is a Ph.D. student in civil engineering. He is passionate about transportation safety and is currently studying how to improve efficiency in the transportation network for large trucks. He will present work from his master’s thesis that was recently published in Accident Analysis and Prevention.

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  • PacTrans Student Researchers win Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE DTPI 2022

    Three graduate research assistants from the University of Washington’s STAR Lab received an outstanding paper award from the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI 2022). The paper titled, Real-Time Traffic and Road Surveillance with Parallel Edge Intelligence, proposes a multi-thread parallel edge system architecture and several lightweight algorithms for traffic and road surveillance. The lead author, Ruimin Ke, has since graduated and is now a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, and the other two authors, Chenxi Liu and Frank (Hao) Yang, are both preparing to graduate.

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