Faculty Profile for Dr. Feng Wang

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Dr. Feng Wang
Professor — Ingram School of Engineering
Program Faculty — Ingram School of Engineering
RFM 5200
phone: (512) 245-5258
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 PhD in Transportation Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
MS in Systems Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin China, 1994
BS in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing China, 1987

Teaching Interests

 Transportation Engineering and Civil Engineering courses

Research Interests

 Automated data collection technologies for Pavement Management Systems
Simulation and data analysis for Emergency Evacuation

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Scouten, A., Gong, H., Tesic, J., & Wang, F. (n.d.). Deep Learning Pipeline for Modeling Pavement Cracks with an Imbalanced Dataset (MoPaC).
  • Luo, X., Wang, F., Wang, N., Tao, J., Qiu, X., & Amini, F. (2019). Rebuilding the Distress Thresholds for Pavement Warranty Program in Mississippi. Transportation Research Record, Journal of TRB, Vol. 2673(2), 323–334. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/0361198118823497
  • Bu, L., Wang, F., & Gong, H. (2018). Spatial and factor analysis of vehicle crashes in Mississippi state. Natural Hazards, 94(3), pp 1255-1276. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-018-3475-9
  • Bu, L., Wang, F., Zhou, X., & Yin, C. (2018). Managed gating control strategy for emergency evacuation. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 14(10). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2018.1552336
  • Yuan, Y., Chow, T. K. E., Wang, P., & Wang, F. (2025). A review of third-party traffic data for public and private use: opportunities and challenges. Advances in Transportation Studies, 63, 185–202.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Reviewer Award, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology. January 9, 2023 - December 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding paper title “Editor’s Choice Paper” selected by Journal of Materials for paper “Molecular dynamic investigations on the adhesion behaviors of asphalt mastic-aggregate interface” as coauthor, MDPI. November 26, 2020 - November 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Top 3% TRB paper in 6,000+ submission, as research supervisor and corresponding author, Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science. January 13, 2019 - December 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Epps/Dart Award, Deep South Institute of Transportation Engineers. August 2017 - August 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Founding director for Mississippi Summer Transportation Institute (MSTI) program at JSU, VP in Research Office of Jackson State University. April 29, 2011 - August 2018

Selected Grants

  • Luo, Xiaohua (Principal), Wang, Feng (Co-Principal), Yuan, Yihong (Co-Principal). National Summer Transportation Institute, Federal Highway Administration, Federal, $64760. (Submitted: September 2024, Funded: December 2024 - September 2025). Grant.
  • Yuan, Yihong (Principal), Wang, Feng (Co-Principal). Modeling the Changes in Urban Mobility Patterns during COVID-19, Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science, Texas State University, $6000. (Submitted: December 2023, Funded: January 2024 - February 2025). Grant.
  • Kulesza, Stacey Elizabeth (Principal), Wang, Feng (Co-Principal), Shi, Xijun (Co-Principal). University Transportation Center: Coastal Research and Education Actions for Transportation Equity, US Department of Transportation, Federal, $10000000. (Submitted: August 2022, Funded: June 2023 - June 2028). Grant.
  • Luo, Xiaohua (Principal), Wang, Feng (Co-Principal), Yuan, Yihong (Co-Principal), Li, Liang (Co-Principal). National Summer Transportation Institute, Federal Highway Administration, Federal, $64000. (Submitted: September 2022, Funded: June 2023 - October 2023). Grant.
  • Wang, Feng (Principal), Jimenez, Jesus (Co-Principal), Luo, Xiaohua (Co-Principal), Das, Subasish (Supporting), Hong, Feng (Supporting). Administration of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) Local Competition at Texas State University, Federal Highway Administration, Federal, $25500. (Funded: December 2022 - August 31, 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Chair
PhD in Civil Engineering Program
September 2024-Present
Chair
Civil Engineering Program
September 2022-Present
Member
Personnel Committee
May 6, 2019-Present
University representative for TRB at TXST
Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences
2018-Present
Member
Emergency Evacuation Committee (AMR20) of the Transportation Research Board, NAS
January 2018-Present