Research Review with Yiheng Feng, Ph.D., Z. Morley Mao, Ph.D., and Zhi-Li Zhang, Ph.D.
Speaker(s): Yiheng Feng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Purdue University
Assistant Director, Center for Road Safety (CRS)
Z. Morley Mao, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Zhi-Li Zhang, Ph.D., Distinguished McKnight University Professor & Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Associate Director for Research, Digital Technology Center
Presentation Title: TBD
Research: Hardening the CAV Ecosystem to Reduce Cybersecurity Risks – Year One
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 | 1:00 PM ET
Continuing Education Units (CEU): .1*
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Abstract: TBD
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Yiheng Feng is an assistant professor and assistant director of the Center for Road Safety (CRS) at Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. His research areas include connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and smart transportation infrastructure, with a focus on cooperative driving automation and transportation system cybersecurity. He has served as PI and Co-PI in many research projects funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE), state DOTs, and industrial companies. His work appeared in a number of top transportation journals and security conferences and is serving as an editor of multiple journals. He is a member of the Traffic Signal Systems Committee (ACP25) at TRB and co-chair of Simulation Subcommittee. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2024 and best paper and dissertation awards from multiple organizations.
Dr. Morley Mao received their B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. They are a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, and the IBM Faculty Partnership Award. They have been named the Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor. Their research interests encompass network systems, mobile and distributed systems, and network/systems security. Their work involves both empirical data collection and analysis, as well as the design and implementation of new systems.
Zhi-Li Zhang received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1997, where he is currently the McKnight Distinguished University Professor and Qwest Chair Professor in Telecommunications. He currently also serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota. Prof. Zhang’s research interests lie broadly in computer and communication networks, Internet technology, multimedia systems and content distribution networks, cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things, and (applied) machine learning and data mining. Prof. Zhang has published more than 100 journal and conference/workshop papers, many of them in top venues in networking and related fields. He is the co-recipient of several Best Papers awards including IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP and ACM SIGMETRI.CS Prof. Zhang has chaired the program committees of several major conferences in networking including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE ICNP and ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), and served on the Editorial Board of several journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM TOMPECS, and PACM MACS. He is a Fellow of IEEE.