Jun Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
The University of Alabama
2013 SCIB Building
Box 870288
28 Kirkbride Ln, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Phone: 205-348-9569
Fax: 205-348-6862
jliu@eng.ua.edu
https://eng.ua.edu/eng-directory/dr-jun-liu/
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Dr. Jun Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama (Roll Tide). Prior to joining UA in 2018, he worked as a transportation planner (travel demand modeler) at Virginia Department of Transportation and as a post-doc at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Statistics from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2015. Before coming to the United States, he obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST, in China).
Dr. Liu's areas of research interests are innovations related to shared mobility, travel behavior, road safety, responder safety, transportation planning, intelligent transportation systems, connected and/or automated vehicles, and sustainable transportation. Most recently, Dr. Liu’s research has centered on two vital areas: 1) advancing future multimodal mobility systems for rural and small urban communities, and 2) improving the safety of traffic incident responders while enhancing the efficiency of traffic safety enforcement and management. Both domains address the dynamic evolution of transportation systems, including innovations such as electric vehicles, automation, and urban air mobility. He possesses expertise in Big Data analytics, machine learning, agent-based modeling, micro- and macro-simulations, spatial and/or temporal modeling, and statistical analysis. Dr. Liu has published over 250 scholarly works, encompassing book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports.
Since joining UA in 2018, Dr. Liu has made significant contributions to securing over $21.8 million in funding. He has been awarded a total of 30 projects, with 17 of them as the Principal Investigator (PI). The funding sources include prestigious organizations such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Department of Transportation (US DOT), US Department of Energy (US DOE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, State Departments of Transportation (Alabama and Georgia), and various local agencies. Dr. Liu is a recipient of an NIH/CDC R01 award as the lead PI/PD.
Dr. Liu currently serves as a Managing Editor for the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, a Handling Editor for Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and an Editorial Board Member for Accident Analysis & Prevention and the Journal of Safety Research. Additionally, he is actively contributing to the academic community as a Paper Review Coordinator for the TRB Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing (AED50) for TRB Annual Meetings, and an Area Editor for The Joint COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals. Dr. Liu also served on the Organizing Committee for the Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Conference (BTR#1, BTR#2, BTR#3, and BTR#7).
Dr. Liu is a member of the TRB Committee on Geo-spatial Data Acquisition Technologies (AKD80), a member/friend of the TRB Standing Committee on Transportation Safety Management (ACS10), and a member of the TRB Joint-Subcommittee on Emergency Response AMR00(1). He was (2016-2019) a member of the TRB Standing Committee on Visualization in Transportation (AED80). Dr. Liu has served on an NSF Panel for the Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) Program, and he also served as a panelist for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project titled "State and Local Impacts of Automated Freight Transportation Systems" under the project number NCHRP 20-102(22).