Farheen Rukhsana, Recipient of the 2025–2026 Helene M. Overly Graduate Scholarship! We are pleased to announce that Farheen Rukhsana, a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering (Transportation) at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee under the supervision of Professor Dr. Xiao Qin, has …
Muhammad Fahad, a Ph.D. candidate advised by Assistant Professor Tom Shi, earned third place in the graduate student poster category at the college’s Student Research Poster Competition on April 25. Fahad presented his research titled “A Trajectory Dataset of Pedestrian-Vehicle …
Olanrewaju Emmanuel Ogunniyi, president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, received the Student Organization Leader of the Year Award at the UWM Student Involvement Excellence Awards on April 27. The ITE Student …
Olanrewaju Emmanuel Ogunniyi, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering with an emphasis on transportation, has been awarded the UWM Victor Podlaski Scholarship. His advisor is Professor Xiao Qin. The Victor Podlaski Scholarship supports UWM students with an …
Researchers and students from IPIT attended the 105th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., from January 11–15, 2026, presenting thirteen papers covering a range of critical transportation research topics. Throughout the conference, they engaged in discussions with researchers and practitioners across academia, …
The 2025 Southeastern Wisconsin Transportation Symposium, co-hosted by UWM’s Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation (IPIT) and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), brought together more than 220 transportation professionals, researchers, and students on October 10 at the UWM Student …
On May 16, 2025, Traffic & Parking Control Company, LLC (TAPCO) generously donated advanced traffic equipment to UWM’s Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation (IPIT), enhancing hands-on learning for civil engineering students. The donation, including a state-of-the-art SWARCO McCain 352i …
Master’s student Joely Overstreet (Civil Engineering) has been awarded the 2024–2025 Beimborn Graduate Fellowship, receiving $7,500 to support her research on improving pedestrian visibility from tall vehicles, advised by Professor Xiao Qin. Overstreet earned her BS in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Valparaiso University …
Xiaowei (Tom) Shi, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), was recently interviewed about his research into autonomous vehicle technology, particularly its applications in rural and tribal communities. This initiative is supported by a $1.4 million grant from …
Tom Shi, assistant professor; Xiao Qin, professor; and Yang Li, research associate, civil engineering, are partners with UW-Madison on a six-year U.S. Department of Transportation grant to explore the use of autonomous vehicles in rural areas where transportation services are …
