Rate My Professor Nan Zheng

Associate Professor Nan Zheng serves in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Traffic Engineering from Southeast University in 2007, Master of Science in Transport and Planning from Delft University of Technology in 2009, and Doctor of Philosophy in Traffic Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2014. Following his PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research at EPFL from November 2014 to August 2015 and at ETH Zurich from September 2015 to September 2016. Subsequently, he was appointed Associate Professor at the School of Transportation, Beihang University. He recently joined Monash University as a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Transport Studies and has advanced to Associate Professor in Transport Engineering.

Nan Zheng's research interests encompass traffic flow operation and control, planning and operation for autonomous vehicles, transport big data, mobility applications in smart cities, modelling and optimization of complex systems, intelligent and automated transport systems, AI- and data-driven analytics for transport systems, and digital-twin and virtual-reality enabled solutions. He leads research themes on Mobility Digital Twin and Smart Manufacturing Precinct at Monash University, partnering with the Department of Transport and Planning Victoria, Australasian Road Research Board, and industry collaborators such as PTV AG, Aurecon, Safe System Solutions, and Clarity Consulting. As an internationally recognized expert, he serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, and Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, and as an editorial board member for Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. He also assesses grants for the Australian Research Council, Chinese NSF, and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Awards. His publications, primarily in Transportation Research series (Parts A, B, C) and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, have garnered over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar. Notable recent works include “Multi-perspective evaluation of human factors in advanced low-altitude transportation adoption: a virtual reality simulation study” (2026), “Analyzing Riders’ Behavioral Adaptation to Driving Patterns of Advanced Autonomous Vehicles” (2025), and “A novel hierarchical perimeter control method for road networks considering boundary congestion in a mixed CAV and HV traffic environment” (2025).