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Tang Jinjun, a native of Guilin, Guangxi, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University. He is listed as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher and included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists Ranking (Lifetime Scientific Impact). He also holds the title of Hunan Provincial Furong Scholar (Young Scholar).

He currently serves as Director of the Intelligent Electric Vehicle Research Center, Deputy Director of the Traffic Engineering Department, Deputy Director of the Hunan Key Laboratory of Smart Transportation, and Academic Leader of the Research Direction for Transportation-Energy Integration Big Data Analysis and Intelligent Transportation.

He earned his joint-training doctoral degree in Traffic Information Engineering and Control from Harbin Institute of Technology and the University of Washington.

As the first or corresponding author, he has published over 90 SCI/SSCI papers in leading domestic and international transportation journals, including Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part D, China Civil Engineering Journal, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Applied Mathematics and Computation Research, Applied Animal Behaviour Science and Journal of Transportation Engineering. Among them, 14 are ESI Highly Cited Papers, 4 are Top 1‰ Hot Papers, and 10 are Top 1% Papers. His works have been cited more than 7,940 times on Google Scholar, with an H-index of 49.

He has presided over more than 20 research projects, including the General and Youth Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program, humanities and social science projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China, key R&D programs of Hunan Province, research grants for Furong Scholars and Outstanding Young Scholars of the Hunan Provincial Department of Education, innovation-driven projects of Central South University, and smart expressway management and control projects commissioned by Shandong Provincial Transport Planning and Design Institute.

As the first inventor, he has applied for and obtained over 30 national invention patents, and two patented technologies have achieved technology transformation with a total revenue of 4.5 million RMB.

He has been consecutively selected as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2020–2025) and included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists Annual Impact Ranking (2020–2025). His major academic awards include:

• Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award, China Highway and Transportation Society (2025)

• Second Prize of Hunan Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award (2024)

• First Prize of Outstanding Academic Papers in Hunan Provincial Natural Science (2023)

• Second Prize of Science and Technology Award, China Communications and Transportation Association (2023)

• First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Hunan Highway and Transportation Society (2021)

• Excellent Paper Award of the 13th National Youth Academic Conference in the Transportation Field (2019)

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association (2017)

He holds multiple editorial positions, including Associate Editor of Journal of Advanced Transportation, Youth Editorial Board Member of Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, the first Youth Editorial Board Member of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Youth Editorial Board Member of Journal of Railway Science and Engineering, Editorial Board Member of Transportation Research and Digital Transportation and Safety.

In addition, he serves as Deputy Director of the Hunan Multi-articulated Wheel Transportation System Engineering Technology Research Center, Distinguished Researcher of the Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Intelligent Traffic Information Perception and Data Analysis (Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Regional Editor of the CICTP International Conference, Chair of the Technical Committee for Theoretical and Methodological Research on Traffic Data Science under the Interdisciplinary Science Division of the World Transport Convention (WTC), Member of the Youth Science Committee of China Communications and Transportation Association, Director of Hunan Traffic Engineering Society, Executive Director of Hunan System Simulation Association, and Expert Member of the Hunan Urban Civilization and Smooth Traffic Improvement Action Plan.