Dr. Heng Wei is a Professor and the Director of Civil Engineering Program and the founding Director of the Advanced Research on Transportation Engineering and Systems (ART-Engines) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Dr. Wei obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas. He is a Fellow of ASCE and a registered Professional Engineer (PE) with the State of Michigan. Dr. Wei has extensive research expertise and industrial experience in cooperative intelligent transportation systems (ITS), artificial intelligent based Informatics and geographic information system in sustainable mobility and safety, Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) impacts on transportation infrastructural system management and operations, and digital data intelligence in travel demand and environmental analytics. Dr. Heng Wei is the Chair of ASCE T&DI Emerging Technologies Council and the Chair of IEEE ITSS Travel Information and Traffic Management (TTM) Committee. He also is currently serving on the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50) and the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation (AMS10) TRB Standing Committees; and on ASCE's T&DI CAV Impacts and Sustainable Transportation Committees. He is the proceeding Editor for ICTD 2022 and 2023. He was the Publication Chair for the IEEE ITSC 2012 and guest editor for journal of Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.