Professor Wei Wang is a pioneer and leading figure in transportation engineering in China. He has held numerous significant positions, including convener of the discipline evaluation group for Transportation Engineering of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, expert in the National 863 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, deputy director of the Energy and Transportation Division of Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, and head of the expert group for the National Urban Traffic Smooth Project. His research focuses on fundamental theory and simulation technology for urban transportation planning and management.

 

Born in December 1959 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Professor Wei Wang began his academic journey in 1978 at Southeast University, China. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He then joined the faculty at Southeast University and received his Ph.D. in 1989, becoming the first domestically trained Ph.D. in transportation engineering in China. Subsequently, he was promoted to associate professor in 1990 and full professor in 1992, and was appointed as a doctoral supervisor by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in 1993 (i.e., a nationally appointed doctoral supervisor with a retirement age of 70), this made him the youngest professor and doctoral advisor in transportation engineering in China at that time. From June 1998 to December 2014, he served as the Dean of the School of Transportation at Southeast University. He currently holds the title of Chief Professor at Southeast University and is the head of the academic division of Civil, Architecture, and Transportation.

 

Professor Wei Wang has dedicated his career to addressing the significant demands of sustainable development of the modern transportation system in China. Over 40 years, he has established China's first theoretical framework for transportation analysis, aiding in the digitalization and informatization of transportation system planning, construction, operation, maintenance, and management. He has tackled key technological challenges in areas such as road network optimization, fine transportation management, public transit efficiency improvement, and multiple network integration. He developed China's first Transportation Information Modeling (TIM) technology platform and the first large-scale transportation system simulation software, "TranStar", which possesses fully independent intellectual property rights. His achievements have been applied in over 100 cities and regions and promoted in over 600 cities nationwide.

 

He has received five National Science and Technology Progress Awards (four ranked the first, one ranked the second), holds 158 authorized invention patents (108 as the first inventor), and has published 11 academic books and 238 peer-reviewed SCI-indexed papers. He received the inaugural National Innovation Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals. He was selected as a Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholar, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and a leading talent in the National Ten Thousand Talents Program. From 2020 to 2023, he has consistently been listed among the World's Top 2% Most-cited Scientists by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier.