{"id":208,"date":"2023-01-27T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:27:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Jia Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor<br \/>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<br \/>Washington State University<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\r\n<p>I am interested in developing physics-grounded game theory and machine learning methods towards understanding and solving congestion and safety problems in transportation systems. My current research embraces:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Understanding and inducing multi-agent cooperation in mixed-autonomy transportation<\/li>\r\n<li>Multimodal perception and reasoning for driving scene understanding and risk forecast<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\r\n<p>List of publications available at:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=PUlX99cAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2971-9268\">ORCiD<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Students<\/h4>\r\n<h5>PhD student<\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Shuyi Wang (Fall 2025&#8211;now): working on collaborative perception and vision-language models (VLM) for risk understanding<\/li>\r\n<li>Lingxiao Zhou (Fall 2025&#8211;now): working on modeling and multi-agent learning and control for mixed-autonomy traffic<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h5>Undergraduate student<\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Elie Nonde (Fall 2026&#8211;now).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Teaching<\/h4>\r\n<p>Course materials are posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.instructure.com\/\">Canvas<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>CE 322: Transportation Engineering<\/li>\r\n<li>CE 521: Data Science in Built Environment<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Acknowledgement<\/h4>\r\n<p>I am grateful to National Science Foundation, Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), Center for Healthy and Durable Transportation (CHDT), Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT), and Port of Whitman County for generous funding support and in-kind contributions to the research in my team.<\/p>\r\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Available Positions<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<p>If you are interested in pursuing Ph.D. or M.S. or working as undergraduate assistant with me, please send me an email and include your resume and a description of your motivations.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Jia Li | Washington State University | Last update: Aug 28, 2026<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jia Li, Ph.D., Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringWashington State University<\/p>\n<h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\n<p>I am interested in developing physics-grounded game theory and machine learning methods towards understanding and solving congestion and safety problems in transportation systems. My current research embraces:<\/p>\n<p>Understanding and inducing multi-agent cooperation in mixed-autonomy transportation<br \/> Multimodal perception and reasoning for driving scene understanding and risk forecast<\/p>\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\n<p>List of publications available at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=PUlX99cAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2971-9268\">ORCiD<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Students<\/h4>\n<h5>PhD student<\/h5>\n<p>Shuyi Wang (Fall 2025&#8211;now): working on collaborative perception and vision-language models (VLM) for risk understanding<br \/> Lingxiao Zhou (Fall 2025&#8211;now): working on modeling and multi-agent learning &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35418,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/single.php","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":[]},"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":124,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/li\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}