Biography

Feng Wang received his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been conducting research, working for a State Agency, consulting and teaching in Transportation Engineering for more than 15 years. Feng's previous research involves planning, design, and engineering analysis of transportation systems, emergency evacuation simulations and modeling, and pavement management systems. He has a strong background in optimization modeling, statistics analysis, data mining and analysis, and computer programming, which is an important property for this project. He has several publications in different areas of Transportation Engineering. Feng is a registered professional engineer (PE) of Mississippi. He was a faculty member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Jackson State University (JSU), and Director of the Institute for Multimodal Transportation (IMTrans), a federally funded University Transportation Center at JSU. In 2018 Feng has moved to Texas and become a faculty member of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University at San Marcos. Feng is the current member of the Emergency Evacuation Committee (ANB10T) of Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.