Chengbo Ai is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. He received his PhD from Georgia Tech, USA, in transportation systems engineering and his BS from Peking University, China, in electrical and computing engineering. His interdisciplinary research focuses on developing computational models, AI algorithms, and remote sensing hardware systems as they are applied in transportation asset management, geometry design, roadway safety, pavement preservation and maintenance, and many other critical transportation applications.