Teaching & Service
Teaching, mentorship, reviewing, and professional service.
Teaching
Co-Instructor, CCE564: Data Science for Smart Cities, Purdue University
- Fall 2026: Delivering half of the lectures and developing instructional materials on generative models for smart cities.
- Fall 2025: Delivered four weeks of lectures and developed instructional materials on deep learning and reinforcement learning for transportation systems.
Mentorship
I have mentored seven students and junior collaborators at Purdue University: Mithun Debnath (2022), Ruichen Tan (2023–present), Hongli Li (2024–present), and Zhiyu Joey Cai, Ziyuan Yang, Shiveswarran Ratneswaran, and Yufan Flynn Zhang (2025–present). These projects span generative AI, autonomous-system evaluation, mobility analytics, and transportation security.
Selected Student Achievements
- Ruichen Tan (first author): Worst-Case Hidden-Vehicle Trajectory Search in Spatiotemporal Occlusion Regions received the Best Paper Award and was accepted as an oral presentation at the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Safe and Defensive Autonomous Driving (SDAD).
- Zhiyu Joey Cai (first author): Controllable Road Marking Generation was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 main track.
- Hongli Li (first author): Anticipatory demand planning for microtransit with strategic use of latent capacity at fixed stops was published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 212 (2026), 104939.
- Ziyuan Yang (first author): RiskLens: Auditing the Causal Geometry of End-to-End Driving Policies, 1st IJCAI Workshop on Safe Physical AI, 2026.
- Mithun Debnath (first author): Ride-Hailing Expansion and Urban Traffic Safety: A Data-Driven Perspective was accepted by ASCE’s Journal of Transportation Engineering.
Invited Talks
- “Transportation Cybersecurity: A Network-Level Perspective.” TraCR Scholar Webinar Series, August 27, 2025.
- “Adversarial Booking Attacks for On-Demand Mobility Services.” Purdue Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter Seminar, November 28, 2023.
Professional Service
Journal reviewer. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; Transportation Research Part B; Transportation Research Part C; Transportation Research Part D; Transportation Research Part E; Transportation; Multimodal Transportation; Transportation Research Record; Data Science for Transportation; European Journal of Operational Research; Operations Research Perspectives; Scientific Reports; Energy.
Conference reviewer. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems; ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium; IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference; IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety.
Event coordinator. ITE Special Seminar (2025): “Interdisciplinary Intelligent Transportation Systems: Traffic Control and Travel Time Dynamics.” Speaker: Dr. Pushkin Kachroo.