Congratulations to Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology’s Xiao-Yun Lu on being recognized by the Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) with a Lifetime Distinguished Achievement award. The Technology Integration team nominated him in recognition of “decades of world-class research exploring the impact of automation, connectivity, and emerging technologies on the transportation system.”
Lu was publicly recognized during the plenary session of the VTO Annual Merit Review (AMR) on June 2, 2025.
Lu is a lead researcher at California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) and Berkeley Lab. He has over 30 years of experience in systems modeling, measurement, estimation, simulation, optimization, control, and real-time implementation; vehicle and highway automation – automated vehicle (passenger cars and heavy-duty vehicles) dynamics modeling, control design and implementation; energy consumption of automated vehicles and traffic systems for eco-driving; traffic monitoring, sensor detection and fusion; traffic system modeling, estimation, control and optimization (Coordinated Ramp Metering and Variable Speed Limit/Advisory); goods movement; airport ground access planning; vehicle dynamics and control; active vehicle and intersection safety. He is a Principal Investigator/Researcher of multiple PATH projects, including the Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Truck project.
He has over 280 scholarly publications and has been cited over 7500 times, in addition to publishing numerous reports.
His research interests include:
-
Control design, simulation, implementation, and field test of 3-truck platooning for mobility and energy efficiency improvement using DSRC V2V;
-
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) design and implementation on heavy-duty trucks and passenger cars for freeway driving with public traffic
-
Freeway corridor traffic detection, modeling, simulation, optimal control algorithm development, and field implementation with combined Variable Speed Limit/Advisory (VSL/VSA) and Coordinated Ramp Metering (CRM);
-
Coordination of freeway corridor ramp metering and arterial corridor intersection traffic signal control
Lu received his BS in mathematics from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 1982, his MS in applied mathematics from the Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1985, and his PhD in systems and control from the University of Manchester, U.K., in 1994. He worked as a postdoc at the University of Leicester, UK, until 1999, when he joined PATH.