News
Grants, awards, media coverage, visits, and lab milestones.
2026
- Sep 2026
Lab paper on safety-critical scenario generation presented at ECCV 2026
“CCFM: Collision-Constrained Flow Matching for Safety-Critical Scenario Generation” appeared at the European Conference on Computer Vision in Malmö, Sweden.
- Jul 2026
Town & Gown features "Happy Valley's Driverless Future"
- 2026
IEEE ITS Magazine profiles the Smart Mobility Lab
The lab is featured in the “ITS Research Lab” column of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 18(2).
- 2026
Zirui Wu receives the Harry G. Miller Fellowship in Engineering
2025
- Oct 2025
Penn State and Royal Truck bring LiDAR SLAM to leader-follower truck automation
A LiDAR-based SLAM algorithm developed with Royal Truck strengthens the leader-follower cooperative driving automation system.
- Oct 2025
Streetlight EV charging research draws national and international coverage
Our study of turning city streetlights into low-cost EV chargers was covered by Penn State News, Tech Briefs, Yahoo, MSN, Asianet, Newsbreak, ifeng, and Sina.
Penn State NewsTech BriefsYahooMSNAsianet NewsNewsbreak凤凰网新浪
- Jan 2025
Dr. Hu discusses EVs in cold weather on FOX43 (WPMT)
2024
- Nov 2024
$2.5M DOE award to train emergency responders on zero-emission trucks
The U.S. Department of Energy selected our project for immersive, interactive training of emergency responders who work with medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles.
- Aug 2024
"A Note from Neeli": Penn State steering the future of autonomous vehicles
- Jun 2024
President Neeli Bendapudi rides in our autonomous vehicle at the LTI test track
We hosted President Bendapudi and her executive team at the Larson Transportation Institute test track for a self-driving demo led by our students.
- Apr 2024
Qing Tang to join Old Dominion University as a tenure-track assistant professor
- Apr 2024
Workshop on infrastructure support for AV deployment at IEEE IV 2024
We organized “Infrastructure Support and Impact in Autonomous Vehicle Deployment” at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Jeju Island, South Korea, June 2024.
- Feb 2024
2023
- Aug 2023
Welcome Yuxin Ding, new Ph.D. student
- Jul 2023
Qing Tang defends her dissertation and joins Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral researcher
- Mar 2023
USDOT SMART grant funds ATMA for Work Zone Safety
We are working with five state DOTs (Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and California) to deploy ATMA across diverse operating environments.
2022
- Nov 2022
AstaZero and Chalmers University of Technology visit Penn State and the LTI test track
- Nov 2022
Qing Tang receives the Mark E. and Claire L. Alpert Graduate Fellowship
- Nov 2022
Visitors from CRCOG and CATA tour the LTI test track
- Oct 2022
Staff from Congressman Glenn Thompson's office ride in our autonomous vehicle
- Sep 2022
Pennsylvania Senator Wayne Langerholc Jr. rides in our autonomous vehicle
- Jun 2022
Qing Tang receives the Leo P. Russell Graduate Fellowship
- Jun 2022
TRB webinar "Saving Lives with Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator Systems" draws nearly 300 attendees
Organized by Dr. Hu and co-sponsored by TRB committees AKR10 and ACP30.
- Apr 2022
Yang (Chris) Song wins first place in the poster competition at the Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Feb 2022
Our full-size autonomous vehicle arrives at Penn State
- Jan 2022
Dr. Hu named Research Coordinator of TRB Committee AKR10
2021
- Nov 2021
TRB features our work on autonomous vehicles for infrastructure maintenance
- Oct 2021
KCUR covers our streetlight charging research
- Oct 2021
Missouri Business Alert covers our EV research
- Aug 2021
The Smart Mobility Lab moves to Penn State
Founding members at Penn State: XB Hu, Qing Tang, Chris Song, and Chenxi Chen.
- Apr 2021
Renewable Energy Magazine covers our transportation electrification research
2019
- May 2019
Students use a driving simulator to test roadway design before construction
- Apr 2019
Missouri S&T joins the national UTC on infrastructure durability (TriDurLE); Dr. Hu is a Co-PI