Lei Han - Academic Homepage

Personal academic website of Lei Han, PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at the University of Central Florida.

🌐 Live Site: https://ucfleihan.github.io

About

I am a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), working as a Research Assistant at the Smart & Safe Transportation (SST) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Aty.

Research Interests

• Traffic Safety Modeling - Developing data-driven models for traffic crash prediction and analysis
• Traffic Operation Analysis - Network-level traffic state estimation and prediction
• Connected Vehicle Data Applications - Leveraging large-scale CV trajectory data for transportation research
• Spatiotemporal Deep Learning - Advanced machine learning methods for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Expected May 2026), University of Central Florida
• M.S. in Transportation Engineering (2023), Tongji University
• B.S. in Transportation Engineering (2020), Tongji University

Research Highlights

• Published 18 SCI papers in leading transportation journals, including:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Analytic Methods in Accident Research
  • Transportation Research Part C
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• 5 first-author and 4 corresponding-author publications
• Serves as reviewer for 10+ transportation journals and major conferences

Website Structure

This website is built using Jekyll and the Academic Pages theme. It includes:

• Home/About - Personal introduction and research overview
• News - Latest updates and achievements
• Research - Detailed research projects and methodologies
• Publications - Complete list of journal articles, conference papers, and preprints
• CV - Academic curriculum vitae
• Posts - Blog posts and personal updates

Local Development

Prerequisites

• Ruby (with bundler)
• Node.js
• Docker (optional, recommended)

Using Docker (Recommended)

The easiest way to run the site locally is using Docker:

docker compose up

The site will be available at http://localhost:4000. Changes to Markdown and HTML files will automatically rebuild.

To restart the container:

docker compose restart

Manual Setup

1. Install dependencies:

   bundle install
   npm install

2. Run Jekyll server:

   bundle exec jekyll serve -l -H localhost

   Or with auto-reload:

   bundle exec jekyll serve -l -H localhost --watch

3. Access the site: Open http://localhost:4000 in your browser

Building for Production

bundle exec jekyll build

The generated site will be in the _site/ directory.

Contact

• Email: lei.han@ucf.edu
• Google Scholar: Lei Han
• ORCID: 0000-0002-2976-0762
• LinkedIn: Lei Han
• GitHub: @UCFLeiHan

License

This website is built on the Academic Pages template, which is based on the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme.

The content of this website (text, images, publications) is © Lei Han. All rights reserved.

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Last Updated: 2025