Wenlong Jin

Wenlong Jin is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on intelligent transportation systems, traffic flow theory, and transportation network analysis, with applications to evacuation control, eco-driving algorithms, and connected/autonomous vehicle systems.

• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Davis (2003)
• M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Davis (2000)
• B.S., Automatic Control, University of Science and Technology of China (1998)

Recent research trends include:

• Developing generalized bathtub models for network trip flows and evacuation control
• Advancing car-following models with safety guarantees for autonomous vehicles
• Optimizing dynamic pricing schemes for high-occupancy toll lanes
• Investigating capacity drop phenomena at traffic bottlenecks
• Creating eco-driving algorithms using vehicle-to-infrastructure communication

He actively contributes to transportation network resilience and cybersecurity in intelligent transportation systems.