**Henry Liu**

Henry Liu (Prof. Dr.) is a tenured professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Mcity at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (USDOT Region 5 University Transportation Center). From August 2017 to August 2019, Prof. Liu served as the Chief Scientist on Smart Transportation for DiDi Global, Inc., one of the leading mobility service providers in the world. While he was with DiDi, he established and led the Urban Transportation Business Unit. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Prof. Liu was an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000 and his bachelor's degree in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 1993. Prof. Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as the testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles. He has published more than 120 refereed journal papers. Professor Liu has nurtured a new generation of scholars, and some of his PhD students and postdocs have joined first-class universities, such as Columbia University, Purdue University, RPI, etc. Prof. Liu is the managing editor of the *Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems*.
