Jiawei Wang

Ph.D. candidate

Jiawei Wang comes from Guangdong, China, and is a second-year student in the Ph.D. program of transportation at the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University. His major is traffic engineering, and he currently focuses on traffic control with machine learning techniques.
Before arriving at McGill, he got a B.E. degree and an M.S. degree from the Department of Intelligent Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, China, where he mainly worked on urban network traffic prediction with deep learning.
In his free time, he loves playing basketball and enjoys exploring new places and food.

Research Interests

Reinforcement learning in traffic control
Traffic prediction

Selected Publications

Wang J, Sun L (2020) Dynamic holding control to avoid bus bunching: A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework. *Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 116: 102661*. (doi:10.1016/j.trc.2020.102661)