Smart Road Infrastructure: Ideas, Innovations and Emerging Technologies

Xingyi Zhu, a distinguished young scholar of the National Science Fund, is a professor of College of Transportation Engineering in Tongji University, China. In order to ensure the performance of new transportation infrastructure, Zhu has been devoted to the research of “functional pavement and smart pavement.”

She is currently serving as an advisor to the Airport Operations Working Group of International Civil Aviation Organization (AOWG-FTF), the chairperson of the Asphalt and Asphalt Mixture Committee of the Road Division of the World Transport Congress, the associate editor of Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (SCI-Q2) and Cleaner Materials, early-career editorial board member of Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering, and the young academic editor of Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition), China Journal of Highway and Transport, and Journal of Building Materials. As a guest editor of Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, she organized a special issue "Smart Paving and Infrastructure Materials for Longer Service Life."

Prof. Zhu presided over more than 30 projects, including 6 National Natural Science Foundations of China (NSFC), 2 National key R&D program(AI powered  sensing, positioning, and guidance from smart roads; Energy self-sufficiency technology for smart connected road traffic system), China-Sweden/China-Singapore/China-Belgium International Cooperation and Exchange Project and the NSFC Outstanding Youth Foundation. As a core member, Prof. Zhu participated in the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program) and the National Key Research and Development Plan "International Cooperation in Science and Technology Innovation between Governments".

She has published more than 150 academic papers and was selected as one of the top 2% of the world’s top scientists and Elsevier's Chinese Most Cited Researchers. She has a wealth of engineering practical experience. She once served as a deputy chief engineer in the Road Engineering Research Center of Shanghai Highway and Bridge (Group) Co., Ltd. She has obtained 16 patents and 12 soft works, participated in the compilation of four industry and local standards and reviewed two industry standards. Her research results won the first prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, twice the first prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of China Highway Society, the second prize of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award, and the second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Yunnan Highway Society.