Wei Fan

Education: Ph.D., P.E. The University of Texas at Austin

Courses Taught: N/A

Biography:

Dr. Wei Fan currently serves as a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a Distinguished Scholar in the William States Lee College of Engineering at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the Director of the USDOT University Transportation Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education (CAMMSE) housed directly under the CEE Department at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Fan is also a thrust lead/associate director of the NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, an associate editor of ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, IEEE Transactions – Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Transportation Planning and Technology; and a handling editor of the Transportation Research Record. He has published 130 peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of big data analytics in transportation, connected and automated vehicles, and traffic system operation and control. Dr. Fan has been a principal or co-principal investigator on many sponsored research projects with a total of over 17.35 million dollars in funding.