Since joining the U of A in 2009, Dr. Qiu founded the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) research lab, now called the Centre for Smart Transportation (CST). Dr. Qiu received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and his BSc. and MSc. from Tsinghua University of China in 2001 and 2003, respectively. From 2008-2009, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the California PATH Program at the University of California, Berkeley.