Xun Gong is an Associate Professor at Jilin University, School of Artificial Intelligence. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 2016 to 2018. He received a PhD in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Jilin University, China, in 2016, where he served as a graduate research assistant at the State Key Lab of Automotive Control and Simulation (2010-2016). He was a joint Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeast Electric Power University in 2010. Dr. Gong is an active member of the CAA Technical Committee on Vehicle Control and Intelligence. His research interests include energy efficiency optimization of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs); human driver behavior modeling towards the evaluation of CAV performance under different penetration rates; human-in-the-loop of CAV control; machine learning and intelligent traffic applications; nonlinear control theory and automative application