Jie Ji is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Chongqing University in 2010. From December 2013 to December 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His active research interests include advanced control & artificial intelligence, and their applications on intelligent and connected vehicles, in which he has contributed more than 30 articles and obtained 9 granted China patents. He is the recipient of the Best Land Transportation Paper Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2019, and the Young Professional Excellent Paper Award from China SAE in 2019. Dr. Ji is a member of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, and is the founder of the Green Intelligent Vehicle and Electromobile Laboratory (GIVE Lab) at Southwest University (from 2015).
