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