Jie Ji Author & Editor

Jie Ji is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Chongqing University in 2010. From December 2013 to December 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow withthe Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His active research interests include advanced control & artificial intelligence, and their applications on intelligent and connected vehicles, in which he has contributed more than 30 articles and obtained 9 granted China patents. He is the recipient of the Best Land Transportation Paper Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2019, and the Young Professional Excellent Paper Award from China SAE in 2019. Dr. Ji is a member of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, and is the founder of the Green Intelligent Vehicle and Electromobile Laboratory (GIVE Lab) at Southwest University (from 2015).HongWang is currently a Research Associate Professor at Tsinghua University. From the year 2015–2019, she was working as a Research Associate of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering with the University of Waterloo. She received her Ph.D. in Beijing Institute of Technology in China in 2015. Her research focuses on the risk assessment and crash mitigation-based decision making during critical driving scenarios, ethical decision making for autonomous vehicles, component sizing, modelling of hybrid powertrains and intelligent control strategies design for hybrid electric vehicles, and intelligent control theory and application. She becomes the IEEE member since the year 2017. She has published over 50 papers in top international journals, such as IEEE Transaction on Intelligent System, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, etc.Yue Ren received a B.E. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from Chongqing University, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He is currently working as an assistant professor with the college of engineering and technology, Southwest University, China. He is working on autonomous vehicles, including vehicle detection, path planning and tracking, vehicle dynamics, and stability control.