Helai Huang is a Senior Professor of transportation engineering at the School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering at Central South University (CSU). He is the founding director of the Smart Transport Laboratory of Hunan Province and the dean of the CSU School of International Education. He received his B.E and M.S. degrees from Tianjin University in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and earned a Ph.D. degree in transportation engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2008, before working as a post-doc at the University of Central Florida (2008–2010). He is the vice-director of the International Collaboration Committee, Chinese Society of Engineers (CSE), and committee chair of Transport Safety and Environment, World Transport Convention (WTC). He is listed in the Clarivate highly cited Researchers, top 2% scientists worldwide by Stanford University, and China Leading Talents of Technological Innovation of the Ten-Thousand Talents Program. He is the winner of the Outstanding Talents Award in China ITS. His research interests include traffic safety, transportation planning, and ITS.