• Ph.D., University of Kansas
• M.S., University of Kansas
• M.E., Beijing University of Technology, China
• B.S., Beijing University of Technology, China

• Director, Advanced Research in Transportation Engineering & Systems Laboratory (ART-Engines Lab) at UC

• University Representative of Transportation Research Board (TRB)

• Advisor, UC Student Chapter of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

[Biographical Sketch] Dr. Heng Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Cincinnati (UC). He is director of Advanced Research Transportation Engineering and Systems (ART-Engines) Laboratory at UC. He is also a professional engineer registered with the State of Michigan. He has a wide spectrum of research interests and expertise including intelligent transportation systems (ITS), advanced technologies in modeling traffic flow characteristics and simulation, travel demand forecasting, highway safety and operation, transportation network modeling, traffic mobile-source air pollution modeling, etc.. He has received 16 research projects (including 4 projects as Co-PI) for the total of $1.3M and his research has resulted in 96 published papers and 7 book/book chapters. His most notable research accomplishments include software VEVID for vehicular trajectory data extraction and methodology for modeling dynamics of the signal dilemma zones using real-world vehicular trajectory data. He won 7 professional awards for his outstanding research and education achievement.

He has done an excellent advising job to his graduate students. Three of his graduate students (two PhD. Students and one MS student) have won five major paper competition awards and scholarship: (1) Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Lakes District Student Paper Award (1^st place); (2) ITE National Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award (1^st place); (3) Women in Transportation System (WTS) Overly Memorial & Batelle-WTS Scholarships; (4) Ohio Transportation Consortium (OTC) Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner (1^st place); and (5) 2^nd-Class Prize of 2006 Philip E. Rollhaus, Jr. Roadway Safety Essay Contest. He has supervised five Ph.D. students (one graduated) and 14 M.S. students (10 graduated). In addition, he jointly advised a Ph.D. student with a faculty at Beijing University of Technology (China) to have published a number of journal papers. He has developed and/or offered the following courses: CEE351 Transportation Engineering, CEE605 Travel Demand Forecasting, CEE610 Computer Methods in Transportation, CEE622 Traffic Signal System Design and Control Operation, CEE624 Highway Safety, CEE776 Intelligent Transportation Management Systems, CEE 647 Introduction of Sustainable Urban Engineering, and CEE504/505/506 Integrated Design Sequence (IDS) – a capstone undergraduate course in the Department of CEE at UC. He has received remarkable evaluations to the courses he has offered. In addition, he participated in a jointly teaching program with the School of Planning: Niehoff Urban Studio, CEE100 Introduction to CEE, and CEE649 Introduction to Sustainable Urban Engineering. Since 2005, he has been actively involved (as a Co-PI) in the NSF projects such as REU Sites and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Sites, through which he created outreach programs centered around his research endeavors.

He is very actively involved in academic services as committee members of numerous outstanding professional associations, such as America Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)'s Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) Advanced Technology Committee and Transportation Safety Committee, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation in Developing Countries, and so forth. In addition, he serves the TRB Representative to University of Cincinnati (UC) and the Advisor to the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter at UC. He has organized and chaired/co-chaired a number of international professional conferences on research and education.