All Professional Service
This page includes all professional service activities, including leadership roles in professional societies, editorial and conference service, community organization (workshops, tutorials, and competitions), institutional service, proposal review, peer review, and professional memberships. Highlighted entries indicate leadership roles or particularly impactful service contributions.
Leadership & Professional Society Service
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Chair of Steering Committee
REproducible Research In Transportation Engineering (RERITE) Working Group, 2025-2028 -
Co-founder
REproducible Research In Transportation Engineering (RERITE) Working Group, 2024– . . . -
Board of Governors
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), 2024-2026 -
Committee Member
TRB Standing Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (ACP50), 2025 -
Technical Program Committee
NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) PI Meeting, 2025 -
Organizer, Session on AI for Transportation
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), China-America Frontiers of Engineering (CAFOE), 2024CAFOE hosts a biennial symposium of 60 outstanding, early-career Chinese and American engineers, with the aim of building collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries. -
Appointed Member
IEEE ITSS Conferences and Meetings Committee, 2024– . . . -
Early Career Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) Member
Transportation Research: Part C (TR-C), 2021– . . . -
Chair of Interdisciplinary Research Working Group
ACM Future of Computing Academy, 2017–2019 -
Special Projects Chair, Treasurer, and Webmaster
MIT IEEE/ACM Student Chapter, 2009–2012
Editorial & Conference Service
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Associate Editor
Transportation Research: Part C (TR-C), 2025-2028 -
Program Chair
Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2025 -
Associate Editor
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 -
Area Chair
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024 -
Area Chair
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024 -
Guest Editor
European Transport Research Review, Open Access Topical Collection on Reproducible Research in Transportation, 2024– . . . -
Program Committee
Conference in Emerging Technologies in Transportation Systems (TRC-30), in commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Transportation Research: Part C (TR-C) journal, 2024 -
Program Committee
Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) Conference, 2020 -
Program Committee
TRB Innovations in Travel Modeling (ITM) Conference, 2020 -
Program Committee
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2018 -
Session Co-chair
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2018
Community Organization
- The League of Robot Runners (LoRR)
Competition Chair, 2022– . . .LoRR, sponsored by Amazon Robotics, is a competition where participants tackle one of the most complex optimization challenges: the coordination of multiple moving robots, which is important for industrial applications such as warehouse logistics, transportation and advanced manufacturing. - Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), League of Robot Runners Competition
Organizer, 2026 - IV Workshop on Trustworthy and Open Science for Intelligent Vehicles: Datasets, Benchmarks, and Testbeds
Organizer, 2026 - IV Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy Motion Planning subject to Perception and Sensor Network Uncertainties in ITS
Organizer, 2026 - NeurIPS Workshop on Differentiable Learning of Combinatorial Algorithms: From Theory To Practice
Organizer, 2025 - ITSC Reproducibility in Transportation Research: A Hands-on Tutorial 2.0 – Reproducible Manuscripts
Organizer, 2025 - RLC Workshop on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems (RL4RS)
Organizer, 2025 - CPS-IoT Week Workshop on Going Public with Your CPS Code and Data
Organizer, 2025 - ITSC Reproducibility in Transportation Research: A Hands-on Tutorial
Organizer, 2024The first tutorial on reproducibility for transportation research, with the goal of arming participants not only with the principles, but also the practical knowledge to make their research reproducible. Participants create a traffic simulation project that someone can reproduce in less than 5 minutes, and learn how to organize the project to make it understandable. - RSS Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales (AVAS)
Organizer, 2024 - ICML Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wilds
Organizer, 2024 - IEEE CDC Invited Session on Learning and Control for Accessible, Safe, and Equitable Transportation Systems with Mixed Traffic
Organizer, 2023 - CIKM Workshop on Data-driven Intelligent Transportation
Organizer, 2022 - Automated Road Transportation Symposium (ARTS), Session on Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of AV Use
Organizer, 2021 - IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Workshop on Lagrangian Control for Traffic Flow Smoothing in Mixed Autonomy Settings
Organizer, 2019 - IEEE ITSC Special Session on Transportation and Reinforcement Learning (TRL)
Organizer, 2019 - ACM KDD Workshop on Data-Driven Intelligent Transportation (TID)
Organizer, 2019 - ITSC Tutorial on Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transportation
Organizer, 2018This tutorial provides an introduction to deep reinforcement learning, including formal and algorithmic foundation, state-of-the-art practices, case studies in transportation, and a hands-on tutorial for getting started. - ITSC Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Transportation
Organizer, 2018
Institutional Service
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Lead
CEE PhD Admissions, Systems & Transportation Area, 2025– . . . -
Co-organizer
LIDS Computing and Sustainability Seminar, 2025– . . . -
Member
LIDS Building 45 Space Committee, 2024– . . . -
Member
MIT College of Computing (CoC), Common Ground Standing Committee, Subcommittee on ML, AI, DS, and Algorithms in Engineering, Science, and Social Science, 2020– . . .The mandate of this committee is to help realize a vision of multi-department teaching of computing-related curricula among academic units across MIT, to create a 'bilingual' generation of engineers and scientists who are fluent in computing. -
Member
MIT CEE Graduate Education Committee, 2019– . . . -
Awards Committee Member
Roos Thesis Award, 2025 -
Awards Committee Member
CEE Awards Ceremony M.Eng. Best Poster, 2025 -
Organizer
MIT CEE Research Day Symposium, 2020, 2023 -
Co-organizer
MIT LIDS Seminar, 2019–2022 -
Graduate Mentor
UC Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Undergraduate Mentoring Program, 2017–2018 -
Member
UC Berkeley EECS Graduate Admissions, Diversity Subcommittee (CS), 2013–2015 -
Member
UC Berkeley Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WICSE), K12 outreach, 2013–2015 -
Panelist
UC Berkeley, EECS NSF GRFP Applicant Workshop, 2013–2017
Proposal Review
- Reviewer, MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium, 2025
- Panelist, NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), 2019, 2020, 2022
- Reviewer, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (DTI), 2020, 2021
Peer Review
Journals
- Transportation Research: Part C (TR-C), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), Nature, Science Advances
Conferences
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Professional Memberships
- IEEE ITSS Technical Committee on Automated Mobility in Mixed Traffic, Board Member, 2024– . . .
- IEEE ITSS Technical Committee on Cooperative and Connected Vehicles, 2024– . . .
- IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems, 2024– . . .
- IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024– . . .
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2022– . . .
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), 2021– . . .
- IEEE Young Professionals, 2014– . . .
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011– . . .