Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Dr. Jia Li
Assistant Professor
Office:
PACCAR 444
Phone:
(509) 335-9834
Fax:
(509) 335-7632
Email:
Website:
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2013
- M.Phil., Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
- B.Sc., Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2005
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, 2022-Present
- Assistant Adjunct Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, 2020-2022
- Research Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2017-2020
- Postdoc/Research Associate, Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas at Austin, 2014-2017
Research Interests
- Mixed Autonomy Transportation Systems
- Smart and Resilient Cities/Communities
Teaching
- Transportation Engineering
- (TBD) Data Science in Urban Systems
Publications
- Jia Li, Di Chen, and Michael Zhang. Equilibrium modeling of mixed autonomy traffic flow based on game theory. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, in press.
- Long Nguyen, Zhou Yang, Jia Li, Zhenhe Pan, Guofeng Cao, and Fang Jin. Forecasting people’s need in hurricane events from social network. IEEE Transaction on Big Data,8:229-240,2022.
- Jia Li, Kenneth Perrine, Lidong Wu, and Michael Walton. Cross-validating traffic speed measurements from probe and stationary sensors through state reconstruction. International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology,8:290-303, 2019.
- Zhen Qian, Jia Li, Xiaopeng Li, Michael Zhang, and Haizhong Wang. Modeling heterogeneous traffic flow: A pragmatic approach. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 99:183-204, 2017.
- Jia Li, Michael Zhang. Bounding tandem queuing system performance with variational theory. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 81:848-862, 2015.
- Jia Li, Michael Zhang. A generalized queuing model and its solution properties. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 79:79-92,2016.
- Jia Li, Michael Zhang. Modeling space-time inhomogeneities with the kinematic wave theory. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 54:113-125,2013.