Dr. Liu is the dean of the school of transportation and logistics in Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), a leading university in the discipline of rail transportation that provides most key technologies for high speed rail system development in China. The school of transportation and logistics (STL) has 120 faculties with five majors in rail transportation engineering, traffic engineering, traffic safety, logistic management and logistic engineering with annual US$ 5 million research funding. There are more than 3000 students including the bachelor, master and PhD. Students in the STL. STL has a National Engineering Laboratory for Transportation Big-Data Technology and Application (NELTBDTA). As the deputy director of NELTBDTA, Dr. Liu is leading several research groups to work on a wide variety of research areas, of which the most noteworthy include: integrated planning, advanced operation and intelligent logistic driven by Big-Data technology. His research focused on the direction of transportation system analysis under connected vehicle/autonomous vehicle environment, and intelligent logistics analysis. Dr. Liu is keen on cultural communication and academic collaboration with the researchers and universities around the world. He has recruited some excellent scholars from top universities such as University of Michigan, Northwestern University, TU Delft, Technical University of Munich, and National University of Singapore, etc. around USA, Europe and Asia. During Dr. Liu’s administration, STL has established a student exchange program with University of Yamanashi. Currently, he is proposing student exchange programs between CEE in NJIT and STL in SWJTU，and between School Of Logistics in Inha University and STL in SWJTU.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Transportation

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 2004

Master of Science, Transportation Engineering

Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, 1999

Bachelor of Science, Transportation Engineering

Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, 1996