Choi Lab · University of Minnesota

Team

Our Team

Postdoctoral researchers.

Guoliang Feng

Guoliang Feng

Postdoctoral Researcher · 2026 –
AI integration in traffic operation · Agentic Traffic Simulation · Synthetic population.

Current PhD students.

Lindong Liu

Lindong Liu

PhD · CEGE · 2024 –
Inverse problem · Learning from sparse data · Traffic state estimation.

Christopher Cheong

PhD · CEGE · 2025 –
Traffic forecasting · Neural networks for large-scale spatiotemporal data.

Pouya Parsa

PhD · CEGE · 2026 –
Scalable Vision-Language-Action models for autonomous driving. Earlier: MS · CEGE · 2024 – 2025.

Master's students.

Rammesh Adhav Saravanan

MS · MnRI · 2024 –
Cooperative Vision-Language-Action models for autonomous driving.

Undergraduate research.

Taysir Hoque

Undergraduate RA · 2026 –
Undergraduate research assistant.

Alumni

Ross Volkov MS · Data Science · 2025 – 2026 · Now at Honeywell.
Seunghee Ryu Visiting Student · 2025 · From Korea University (co-supervised with Prof. Seungmo Kang).
Donghoon Kwon Visiting Student · 2025 · From Korea University (co-supervised with Prof. Seungmo Kang).
Sicong Jiang PhD · McGill · Co-supervised with Prof. Lijun Sun. Now at Google DeepMind.
Mitch Kosieradzki MS · Data Science · 2024 – 2025 · Capstone project.
Leo Curtis 2025 – 2026 · TMC-Agent. Now at Boston Scientific.
Ismail Yusuf 2026 – · Traffic incident detection using vision-language models.
Dev Patel 2024
Noah Hebeisen 2024

The lab, over time.

The Choi Lab, September 2024
September 2024
The Choi Lab, January 2026
January 2026
The Choi Lab, summer 2026
Summer 2026