Sun Jian, born in January 1979 in Qihe, Shandong, graduated from the School of Transportation Engineering at Tongji University in 2006 and joined its faculty that year. He was promoted directly from lecturer to professor in 2011. He is currently Head of the Department of Transportation Engineering at Tongji University, a tenured distinguished professor, and a doctoral supervisor. His research covers autonomous driving and vehicle–infrastructure cooperation, traffic-flow theory and simulation, and intelligent transportation. He has led two national key R&D projects, seven National Natural Science Foundation projects, and more than 50 other research projects; published over 200 papers, including more than 150 indexed by SCI and 50 by EI; authored four monographs; co-authored three provincial or ministerial standards; and holds 50 granted invention patents. His work has received three first prizes in provincial or ministerial science and technology awards and six international academic awards.

Prof. Sun serves as an associate editor or editorial-board member for six Chinese and international journals, including IET Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, China Journal of Highway and Transport, and Journal of Tongji University. He is also Vice Chair of the Traffic Modeling and Simulation Committee of the Chinese Simulation Federation and has been selected for programs including the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, the Ministry of Education Young Yangtze River Scholar program, and the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars Fund.

Hang Peng is a specially appointed researcher, associate professor, and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Transportation Engineering at Tongji University. His research focuses on decision-making, planning, and control for intelligent connected vehicles, cooperative autonomous driving, and vehicle–infrastructure cooperation. He has published more than 70 high-quality papers, holds nine granted invention patents, has authored two English books, and completed one SAE EDGE research report. His honors include a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, the IJAT-Springer Award, the Electronics Travel Awards, an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Tongji University, and an APAC Best Conference Paper Award. He serves on CAA committees, as an associate editor for four international journals including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Journal of Field Robotics, and in editorial roles for four Chinese journals; he has also chaired sessions and tracks at IEEE ITSC, IEEE IV, and SAE WCX.

Ni Ying was born in November 1984. She received her PhD in Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt in December 2009. Since 2010, she has served as lecturer, associate professor, and tenured associate professor at the College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University; she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, from September 2014 for one year. Her research focuses on modeling and simulation of interaction behavior in mixed traffic flows. She has led three National Natural Science Foundation projects, one Ministry of Science and Technology key R&D project, and three provincial or ministerial projects, and was selected for the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program. She has published more than 30 SCI/EI papers and 30 conference papers, applied for three patents, and contributed to three local technical standards.