Sikai Chen
Biography
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering – University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dr. Sikai (Sky) Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus on Computational Science & Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Chen’s research centers around three major themes: human users, AI, and transportation. He aims to innovate and develop safe, efficient, sustainable, and human-centered transportation systems using cutting-edge methods and technologies. The focus is on incorporating human behaviors, interactive autonomy, and intelligent control frameworks. He is a member of two ASCE national committees: Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Impacts, and Economics & Finance; and TRB Standing Committee on Statistical Methods (AED60).
Their Research
| Development of AI-Based and Control-Based Systems for Safe and Efficient Operations of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator: Samuel Labi & Sikai Chen Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Development of Situational Awareness Enhancing Systems for AV-Manual Handover and Other Tasks |
| Principal Investigator: Samuel Labi & Sikai Chen Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| Large Network Multi-Level Control for CAV and Smart Infrastructure: AI-based Fog-Cloud Collaboration |
| Principal Investigator: Sikai Chen, Samuel Labi, & Kumares Sinha Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Leveraging Control Theory to Facilitate UAV Application for CAV Deployment |
| Principal Investigator: Shaoshuai Mou & Sikai Chen Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Promoting CAV Deployment by Enhancing the Perception Phase of the Autonomous Driving Using Explainable AI |
| Principal Investigator: Samuel Labi & Sikai Chen Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Security Defense of Transportation Networks against Cyber Attacks: A Physics-Informed AI Approach |
| Principal Investigator: Sikai Chen, Sue Ahn, & David Noyce Research Focus: Cybersecurity |
| Using Connected Intelligent Transportation to Enhance Vulnerable Road User Safety |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sikai Chen, Sue Ahn, & David Noyce Research Focus: Safety, Equity |
| Using Connected Intelligent Transportation to Enhance Vulnerable Road User Safety: Phase II Real-world Testing and Deployment |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sikai Chen Research Focus: Safety, Equity |
| Using Virtual Reality Techniques to Investigate Interactions Between Fully Autonomous Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users |
| Principal Investigator: Samuel Labi & Sikai Chen Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors |