Dong Li

Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech

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    • About me

    I’m a Ph.D. student in Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. I’m honored to be advised by Prof. Haibo Zeng. My research interest lies in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems. Especially in Intelligent Transportation, Connected and Automated Vehicles and Real-Time Scheduling. I recieved B.E. and M.E. degrees in Control Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2017 and 2020, respectively.


    Projects

    Intelligent unsignalized intersection management
    • Model the intersection with a generalized conflict directed graph
    • Customized traveling windows are assigned to CAVs based on a breadth-first searching algorithm for safe and efficient operation
    • Propose a dynamic outbound-lane assignment strategy that can significantly improve the intersection evacuation timepicker

    Provably safe small-gap platooning of high-speed CAVs
    • Achieve safe and small-gap (less than 10 meters) platooning with bounded communication delay by enforcing a constrained deceleration protocol
    • Two braking strategies are proposed and proven to be safe using verification tools KeYmaera
    • SUMO simulation is conducted to verify the safety and correctness
    Automated vehicle research platform
    • Dynamic obstacle avoidance
    • Wall following
    • Build based on F1Tenth

    Education

    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
      Ph.D. student, Computer Engineering, 2021 - Present

    • Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
      M.E., Control Science and Engineering, 2017 - 2020

    • Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
      B.E., Control Science and Engineering, 2013 - 2017

    Publications

    Honors & Awards

    • Excellent postgraduate student award, Zhejiang University, 2020