Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Zhao is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Urban Transportation at Beijing University of Technology. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in automatic control from the North China University of Technology and a doctorate in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from the Beijing University of Technology. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa. She has long been committed to research related to driving behavior and traffic safety, traffic information, and control technology. She has presided over and participated in nearly 30 vertical projects at the national and municipal levels, and more than 40 other projects. She has published more than 180 academic papers. She has edited 2 monographs, co-edited 2 monographs, and published 1 translation. She has handled 8 invention patents and was approved for 4 invention patents, 2 utility model patents, 1 design patent, and 16 software copyrights. She is a member of the Vehicle User Characteristics Committee (AND10) and the Traffic Control Facilities Committee (AHB50) of the National Transportation Research Association (TRB), the chairperson of the Traffic Safety Analysis and Improvement Technical Committee (JT0502) of the Traffic Safety and Environment Discipline of the World Transport Congress (WTC), and the deputy leader of the expert group of the Motor Vehicle Driving Training Branch of the China Road Transport Association.