Ran Sun
Transportation
Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Ran Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation Systems) from the University of California, Davis, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Sun teaches courses on Traffic Operations and Management, and Transportation Network Analysis.
Research Interests
Dr. Sun's research centers on AI-driven modeling and digital infrastructure for advancing intelligent, connected, and resilient transportation systems. His work lies at the intersection of transportation systems engineering, spatiotemporal data science, and AI, with applications in traffic management, mobility resilience, and autonomous systems. He is particularly interested in developing AI-driven models for large-scale network dynamics, learning-based simulation, and data-driven decision-making in complex mobility environments.
I am actively recruiting funded PhD students, feel free to email if you are interested to join my research group.