Chuan Ding is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor, recognized as a National Young Talent. He currently serves as the Executive Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Transportation Technology and Systems (Ministry of Education). He earned his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology, was a joint Ph.D. scholar at the University of Maryland, and completed his postdoctoral research at Hong Kong Baptist University. His long-term research focuses on road transportation system modeling and operational control, spanning built environments and travel behavior, intelligent connected vehicles and V2X cooperative control, multi-agent transportation modeling and simulation, and integrated road transportation and energy systems. He has been selected for major national talent programs, including the Young Scholars of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program (Ministry of Education, 2023), the Young Top-notch Talents in Transportation Science & Technology (Ministry of Transport, 2023), the Outstanding Young Scientists in Transportation Science & Technology (Ministry of Transport, 2020), the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST (2017), and the Hong Kong Scholars Program (2016). He has been named among World’s Top 2% Scientists (2021–present), Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (2022–present), and Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (2025–present).