Dr. Jiang was awarded with the honorable title of Sichuan “100 plan” in the year of 2012, the recipient of youth science and technology foundation of Sichuan Province in 2014, and is the academic leader of the discipline of safety engineering. Dr. Jiang graduated from Michigan State University with a doctoral degree in the field of traffic safety; Dr. Jiang used to work for an international traffic consulting firm and the City of Fort Myers in Florida as a chief traffic engineer. Currently, Dr. Jiang is the team leader of transportation group of Chengdu United-Front think-tank, the team member of Sichuan Logistics Expert, and the peer reviewer of China National Natural Science Funds and Henry-Fok Youth Teacher Funds. Dr. Jiang owns two important professional licenses: Professional Engineer (PE) issued by Board of PE in the State of Florida and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) issued by Transportation Professional Certification Board Inc. Dr. Jiang is mainly engaged in the research fields such as traffic safety, low-carbon transportation, Intelligent Transportation System, and comprehensive transportation planning and design.

Dr. Jiang has published approximately 100 high-quality research papers, among which over 50 papers are indexed by SCI or SSCI as the first author or corresponding author in the top traffic safety journals; Dr. Jiang is also in charge of translating an English book titled “Urban Transit System and Technology” into Chinese. Dr. Jiang preside over a number of high-profile research projects, which are funded by China National Natural Science Funds, World Bank, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Transportation Bureau, etc. In terms of the academic affiliations, Dr. Jiang is the committee board member of Journal of Transportation Technologies, and a peer reviewer of various international journals, e.g., Accident Analysis and Prevention(SCI), Traffic Injury Prevention (SCI)，Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (SCI), Journal of Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (SCI), Journal of Applied Mathematics (SCI), Journal of Advances in Transportation Studies (EI)，Journal of Modern Transportation, Journal of Tongji University, Journal of Tsinghua University, Journal of Jiangsu University, and Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University. Dr. Jiang has tutored more than 10 doctoral and master students during the short stay at Southwest Jiaotong University. Dr. Jiang’s research paper has won the first prize of the international Philip E. Rollhaus traffic essay competition and the second prize of student paper competition in Michigan.