Wei Zhou, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ph.D. student supervisor, deputy director of Key Laboratory of Traffic Safety on Track, Central South University, Ministry of Education.

Wei Zhou received the Bachelor’s Degree on Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation in 2005. He got the master’s degree and Ph.D on Vehicle Operation Engineering in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He’s been engaging in postdoctoral research in CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd from 2013 to 2015. 

His teaching and research work mainly focus on the fields of rail transit equipment service status monitoring, management and control technology, as well as oversize freight transport safety assessment. For nearly three years, he’s been the principle investigator of 11 research projects funded in national, provincial and school-enterprise cooperation (each project funding is more than 2 milion yuan). He has published 8 SCI-cited international authoritative journal papers as the 1st & corresponding author, and been authorized 4 national invention patents (wherein 2 patents as the first inventors). He has also been awarded 1 First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and 7 Provincial Awards.