Zhihong Cui is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Networks and Distributed Systems group at the University of Oslo, supported by the EU Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project on AI-driven autonomous driving. Her research focuses on integrating digital twins, large language models, reinforcement learning, and causal reasoning for robust decision-making and trajectory planning in complex traffic environments. She has published over 10 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and conferences, including Information Sciences and IEEE Transactions venues. She serves as a reviewer for major journals and conferences such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TIV, SIGKDD, and WWW, and as a PC member for AAAI 2025 and BESC 2025.