Huang Wei

Huang Wei, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is Ph.D. supervisor and a member of the National Intelligent Transportation System Expert committee. He is also the academic leader of Traffic Information Engineering and Control discipline at Southeast University, China. Professor Huang graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1982, 1985 for bachelor and master respectively, and obtained his doctor's degree in Southeast University in 1994. He was a senior visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley from 1993 to 1994. He was named Ten Outstanding Youths in Jiangsu Province and pace-setters in the new long march in Jiangsu Province in 1996. He was also selected as a cross-century talent of the Ministry of Education at the same time. He was selected as a national candidate for the “Millions of Talent Projects” of seven ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Personnel in 1997. Then he was awarded the title of “Young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the nation” and approved to receive the special government allowances from the State Council.He served as Dean of School of Transportation, Executive Vice President of Southeast University, Director of Jiangsu Provincial Construction Department, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province, Vice Minister of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Deputy Director of Science and Technology Committee of Ministry of Construction, Deputy Mayor of Beijing Municipality, and Member of Standing Committee of CPC Leading Group as well as Executive Vice Chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, successively. He is currently the Vice Minister and Member of CPC Leading Group of Ministry of Science and Technology, and Director of the ITS Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education at Southeast University as well.

Professor Huang has made outstanding contributions to bridge deck design theory and engineering construction, road structure testing and traffic management as well. Specially, he established the design method and complete key technologies for long-span bridges deck pavement in China, which solved the major technical problems in the construction of long-span bridges. His monograph “Theory and Method of Deck Paving Design for Long-span Bridges” was awarded the first “100 original books of science and technology” by the State Press and Publication Administration. He has obtained a series of invention patents for new multi-component epoxy asphalt materials, which have been applied in more than 20 long-span bridge projects such as Su Tong Yangtze River Bridge, Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge, Wuhan Tianxingzhou Yangtze River Bridge, and so on. These greatly promoted the development of long-span bridges construction in China.

Professor Huang is one of the pioneers in the discipline of intelligent transportation systems in China, who established the first intelligent transportation systems institute. He also published the first monograph in this field in China, Introduction to Intelligent Transportation System, which was selected as a textbook by many universities, promoting the development of national intelligent transportation system. While he worked as principal investigators of the National Science and Technology Key Support Program “Innovative Urban Rail Transit Technology” and the traffic management and planning project in the National Ninth Five-Year Plan “ITS System Framework of China”, he also chiefly edited the national technical standard Urban Rail Transit Terminology, and proposed the definition of users and services of intelligent transportation system in China and the logical and physical framework of it. These achievements provide an important basis for the development of national intelligent transportation system technology.

Professor Huang has achieved important innovations in the pavement design theory and application technology. He edited the national technical standard Technical Code for Engineerings of Prestressed Concrete Pavement and led the research work about the design and construction for many expressways. The research results are widely used in the engineering projects. The monographs Theory and Methodology of High-Class Concrete Pavement Design, Theory and Methodology of High-Class Asphalt Pavement Design and Application Technology for Expressway Databases have been highly other cited by others. These research results have improved the pavement design method, including pavement design indicators and parameters, pavement material fatigue analysis method based on principle of energy dissipation principle, pavement simplified calculation and optimization design method etc.

Professor Huang received 27 national and ministerial-level science and technology awards, including 2 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award and 9 Ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards (grand prizes and first class prizes). He published more than 10 books and over 130 academic papers, including more than 80 articles were indexed by SCI, EI, and ISTP. These publications have got more than 700 positive citations by others.

Main Research Achievements

1) High efficiency chemical reactor combined with stirred tank and static mixer

2) Epoxy asphalt material for road and bridge and its environment-friendly preparation method

3) Epoxy asphalt material for Expressway, road, and bridge and its preparation method

4) Multi-component bonding material spaying device

5) Multi-component bonding material supplying equipment during construction

6) Thermosetting epoxy asphalt material for road and bridge and its preparation method

7) Multi-protocol control machine (IPC) for expressway networked monitoring

8) Expressway charging system based on Multi-path recognition

9) Deck pavement structure and its design method for long-span steel box girder bridges

10) Real time features extraction method of urban road traffic flow data based on mobile phone location data

11) A signal priority control system for special vehicles

12) Signal priority control system for special vehicles based on GPS

13) A system and method for intelligent management of roadside parking

Main Awards (2000-2014)

Selected Projects (as Principal Investigator) (2000-2014)

Selected Monographs (as first author) (2000-2014)