He previously served as a Traffic Data Architect and Senior Software Engineer at Dash Navigation, Inc., designing and developing the first commercialized internet-connected GPS navigation system in the U.S. He is also the co-inventor of the Key 2 Safe Driving technology. Dr. Zhou's research interests include dynamic traffic assignment, real-time traffic prediction and rail scheduling. In 1995, he designed the first train timetabling system for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in China. He is currently the Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Traffic and Travel Management and is a member of the TRB Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30).