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Dr. Helai Huang is a senior professor of transportation engineering in the School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University (CSU).  He is the founding director of Smart Trasport Laboratory of Hunan Province and the dean of CSU School of International Education.  

Dr. Huang holds B.E & M.S. degrees from Tianjin University, China (1996-2003), a PhD degree in transportation engineering from National University of Singapore (2003-2007), and worked as a post-doc at University of Central Florida (2008-2010). His research interests include traffic safety, transportation planning and ITS. Dr. Huang is the Editor-in-Chief of Accident Analysis and Prevention (Elsevier), AE of Transportation Research-I.P. and an editorial board member of Analytic Method in Accident Research (Elsevier), a committee member for TRB. Dr. Huang is the vice-director of International collaboration committee, Chinese Society of Engineers (CSE), and committee chair of Transport Safety and Environment, World Transport Convention (WTC). 

Dr. Huang has accomplished as PI more than 100 research and consultant projects including 4 funded by NSF-China. Since 2004, Dr. Huang has authored/co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed research articles in renowned international journals with WoS H-index 45. 

Dr.  Huang is listed in the Clarivate highly-cited Researchers, top 2% scientists worldwide by Standford University and China Leading Talents of Technological Innovation of Ten-Thousands Talents Program. He is the winner of outstanding talents award in China ITS.