Dr. Hao Xu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno. He completed his PhD studies in Civil Engineering at Texas Tech University in 2011. His paper, “On-Street Parking Monitoring with Roadside Lidar”, won the Pyke Johnson Award (the best paper in the area of planning and environment) in 2024. In addition, he is the Co-Chair of "Traffic Safety Analysis & Policy" Special Interest Group C4, World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) and the Co-Chair of Section GH11-Resilient Transportation Planning and Management of Transportation Planning Division of the 3rd World Transport Convention (WTC) Academic Sub-Committee (2023-2026). His research interests include big data analysis of traffic crashes and intelligent transportation real-time sensor data, automatic traffic data survey system with videos and 360-degree LIDAR sensors, and data analysis of the latest systems.