About me
Peter J. Jin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University. He got his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and 2009 respectively. He received his B.S. degree from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China in 2006. His research interests include traffic operations, connected and automated vehicles, transportation big data analytics, especially video analytics, and social network data mining. He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Since joining Rutgers, he has been the Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs projects funded by U.S.DOT, FHWA, DHS, National Science Foundation, NJDOT, NJEDA, Port Authority NY&NJ, Middlesex County, and industry in the areas of Connected and Automated Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones), Traffic Operations, Big Data, and Video Analytics. He was the PI in the New Brunswick Innovation Hub Smart Mobility Testing Ground deployment project funded by FHWA, NJDOT, and Middlesex County. The project will instrument a 2.8-mile corridor on Route 18 and 27 in New Brunswick with self-driving-grade sensing and computing technologies to create both a physical living lab and a virtual digital twin for smart mobility technology testing and data collection
