Henry Liu
Biography
Director – Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT)
Director – Mcity
Bruce D. Greenshields Collegiate Professor Engineering – The University of Michigan
Research Professor – The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)
From July 2017 to August 2019, Dr. Liu took a leave of absence from the University of Michigan and served as Chief Scientist on Smart Transportation for DiDi Chuxing in China, one of the leading mobility service providers in the world. While he was with DiDi, he established and led the Urban Transportation Business Unit. In 2022, Dr. Liu was appointed as Director of Mcity in conjunction with its move from the Office of Research to the College of Engineering. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000 and his Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in 1993. Dr. Liu’s research interests focus on transportation network monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as mobility and safety applications with connected and automated vehicles. On these topics, he has published more than 100 refereed journal articles. Dr. Liu is the managing editor of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and an editor of Transportation Research Part C.
Their Research
| Accelerated Training for Connected and Automated Vehicles Based on Adaptive Evaluation Method |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Augmented Reality Testing Environment Development — Phase II |
| Principal Investigator: Yiheng Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| CAV Testing Scenario Design and Implementation Using Naturalistic Driving Data and Augmented Reality |
| Principal Investigator: Yiheng Feng, Shan Bao, & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| CCAT Ann Arbor Connected Environment (AACE) Operations and Maintenance |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation, Policy & Planning |
| Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Data Infrastructure and Access |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu & Carol Flannagan Research Thrusts: Control & Operations |
| Cybersecurity of Transportation Infrastructure in a Connected-Vehicle Environment |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu & Z. Morley Mao Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Policy & Planning |
| DeepScenario: City Scale Scenario Generation for Automated Driving System Testing & Evaluation |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu, Shan Bao, & Brian Lin Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| Development of An Augmented Reality Environment for Connected and Automated Vehicle Testing |
| Principal Investigator: Yiheng Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Development of an Integrated Augmented Reality Testing Environment and Implementation at the American Center for Mobility (ACM) |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Leveraging Connected and Automated Vehicles for Participatory Traffic Control |
| Principal Investigator: Yafeng Yin & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Mcity Infrastructure Data-Collection and Management System Development |
| Principal Investigator: Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Modeling Naturalistic Driving Environment with High-Resolution Trajectory Data |
| Principal Investigator: Shuo Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Real-Time Distributed Optimization of Traffic Signal Timing |
| Principal Investigator: Yafeng Yin, Siqian Shen, & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Road-side Based Cybersecurity in Connected and Automated Vehicle Systems |
| Principal Investigator: Neda Masoud & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Trajectory Based Traffic Control with Low Penetration of Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator: Yiheng Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations |