Rui Gan
甘锐
Ph.D. Candidate · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Email: rgan6@wisc.edu
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I am a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
working as a Research Assistant in the
TOPS Lab
and the
CAVH Research Group,
advised by Prof. Bin Ran.
I earned my B.S. (2020) and M.S. (2022) in Traffic Engineering from
Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
Starting Summer 2026, I will join
Uber as an Apply Scientist intern.
My research focuses on building autonomous driving systems that are fair, transparent, and trustworthy, leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
- ● Ethical & Safe Autonomous Driving — learning moral reasoning from naturalistic driving data for AV planning
- ● Trajectory Prediction & Planning — physics-informed neural models for accurate vehicle motion forecasting
- ● Vision-Language Models for Transportation — video VLMs for traffic accident analysis and understanding
- ● Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Systems — V2X communication, cooperative driving, and infrastructure integration
- ● Spatiotemporal Data Modeling — graph neural networks for traffic flow prediction and network analysis
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss research or explore potential collaboration!
Selected work across my three research threads
| Jan 2026 | 🎤 Presented 8 posters at TRB 2026 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., covering traffic safety, AV, V2X, and AI-based modeling. |
| 2025 | 📝 Submitted DPEP (Differentiable Predictive Ethics-Aware Planner) paper to high-impact journal. |
| 2025 | 🎓 Preparing for Ph.D. preliminary examination. |
| 2024 | 📄 Paper on freeway traffic flow prediction published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. |
| 2024 | 📄 Paper on vehicular speed prediction published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. |
| 2024 | 🔬 Patent on distributed computing for autonomous vehicles published (US Patent). |
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