
COTA Board of Directors

President
Guohui Zhang, Ph.D., Professor
Texas Department of Transportation.Tel: (512) 923-6456
Email: guohui@hawaii.edu

Immediate Past President
Jianming Ma, Ph.D., P.E., PMPĀ®, M.ASCE
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Tel: (808) 956-2378
Email: jianming.ma@txdot.gov

Vice President
Shanjiang Zhu, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering,George Mason University.
Tel: (703) 993-1797
Email: szhu3@gmu.edu

Vice President
Haizhong Wang, Ph.D., Professor
School of Civil & Construction EngineeringOregon State University
Tel: 541-737-8538
Email: Haizhong.Wang@oregonstate.edu

General Secretary
XianBiao Hu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University
Tel: 814-863-0523
Email: xbhu@psu.edu

Treasurer
Zhuo Yao, Ph.D., Transportation Engineer (Civil)
Division of Research, Innovation and System InformationCalifornia Department of Transportation
Tel: (916)-584-2189
Email: zhuo.yao@dot.ca.gov

Co-Chair of Academic Affairs
Cong Chen, Ph.D., P.E., RSP1, Research Associate
Center for Urban Transportation ResearchUniversity of South Florida
Tel: 813-974-2344
Email: congchen1@usf.edu

Co-Chair of Academic Affairs
Junfeng Jiao, Ph.D., Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin.Email: jjiao@austin.utexas.edu

Outreach and Membership Officer
RuiMin Ke, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tel: (518) 276-7097
Email: ker@rpi.edu

Outreach and Membership Officer
Lijun Sun, Ph.D, Associate Professor
Department of Civil EngineeringMcGill University
Tel: 514-398-2198
Email: lijun.sun@mcgill.ca

Communication officer
Jun Liu, Ph. D, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Alabama
Tel: 205-348-9569
Email: jliu@eng.ua.edu

Chair of Student Affairs
Shuyi Yin, PhD Student
Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington
Tel: (650) 561-5205
Email: syin1@uw.edu
Regional Liaison Officers

Regional Liaison Officer
(COTA Europe Chapter)
Ke Hang, Ph.D., Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Center for Transport StudiesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London
Email: k.han@imperial.ac.uk

Regional Liaison Officer
(COTA Asia-Pacific Chapter)
Qiang Meng, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Email: ceemq@nus.edu.sg
Staff

Webmaster
Eric Ji, Software Development Program Manager
National Transportation CenterUniversity of Maryland
Tel: (301) 405-7931
Email: ericji@umd.edu

General Assistant
Huina Wang
School of Transportation science and Engineering,Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China.
Tel: (0086) 0451-86283036
Email: whn1987@163.com