Jason Wu

TTI Associate Research Scientist

Short Biography

Dr. Jason (Dayong) Wu joined TTI in 2019 as an Assistant Research Scientist with the Research and Implementation Division. Prior to joining TTI, Jason worked as a senior research associate at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas as part of the Texas Tech University Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation. Dr. Wu has about 10-year solid experience in various research projects such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, GIS-based transportation applications, traffic safety, and traffic operation and capacity analysis. He has developed several web GIS-based applications in pavement and bridge management using advance geo-spatial data visualization and integration technologies. He has led a four-year safety education program that targeted on teen drivers in rural areas of west Texas. He has also published 31 journal papers and conference proceedings in various transportation engineering topics.

Dr. Wu received his doctorate in transportation engineering at TTU and his Master's in structural engineering at Utah State University (USU). He was also active in teaching at TTU and started to work as a course instructor in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018.