Dr. Hualiang (Harry) Teng is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UNLV. His research has been focused on intelligent transportation systems (ITS), air quality analysis, freight transportation system, transportation planning and railroad. His research in ITS has resulted in high profile publications that have been adopted in different countries for operations and policy decision making.
His incident detection algorithms have been adopted in many countries including Sweden and China.His research work on rubbernecking congestion has been used as the only scientific citation for naming Rubbernecking Day by the State of Pennsylvania. His modules on incident management and ITS technologies are important elements of the only ITS web course in the U.S. that won outstanding ITS America Award. His research on dust pollution provided a solid scientific support on the dust control efforts made in Clark County of Nevada. Currently he is the Commissioner of Nevada High Speed Rail Authority, and is leading the USDOT Tier 1 University Transportation Center on Railroad Infrastructure at UNLV because of his background in railroad engineering and management. He has published more than 40 peer-review journal papers, and completed and am conducting research projects of more than 10 millions in total. He graduated some Ph.D. students who are professors in the world. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. In addition, he has two Master’s degrees, one from West Virginia University and one from Northern Jiaotong University, both on railroad engineering and management. His B.S. degree is also from Northern Jiaotong University on railroad engineering and management.