Lillian (Chunliang) Wu is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at The University of Western Australia. Prior to this role, she served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Kongju National University in South Korea. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia.

Research interests

Her current research interests include intelligent transport systems, sustainable transport, traffic safety, urban mobility, and urban analytics. She focuses on leveraging AI techniques to develop efficient, scalable, and adaptive transport systems for future mobility. She also specialises in spatial analysis and urban big data modelling to explore the complex relationships between the built environment, transport systems, and human mobility. Her research has been published in leading international journals, and she has been invited to present her work at various research institutions, including KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Leeds, as well as at international conferences such as the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference.

Research opportunities

PhD applications:

She is seeking 1-2 motivated PhD students with a background in engineering (e.g., transportation, software, electrical/electronic, automation, or mechanical engineering), strong programming skills, and research interests in AI, learning-based control, traffic simulation, and urban data analytics to join her research group. Prospective students are encouraged to contact her at [email protected] with their CV, transcripts, and a brief cover letter. She also welcomes visiting PhD students.

Admission requirements can be found here.

Final-year projects:

Undergraduate or postgraduate students in the School of Engineering at UWA who wish to undertake their final-year projects under her supervision are also welcome to reach out.

Beyond her research pursuits, Lillian serves as a reviewer for many academic journals and was honored as an outstanding reviewer for Multimodal Transportation in 2024. In addition to her role as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, she also contributes to the technical committees of several international conferences in transportation and intelligent transportation systems.

CIVL4430 Transportation and Pavement Engineering, Unit Coordinator

CIVL5550 Civil Infrastructure Design Project, Unit Coordinator

GENG4411/GENG5511 Engineering Research Project Part 1

GENG4412/GENG5512 Engineering Research Project Part 2

Visiting Academic, University of Leeds, UK (Jul 2025)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (Jan 2023-Jul 2023)

Researcher, Kongju National University, South Korea (Oct 2022-Dec 2022)

Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Kongju National University, South Korea (Apr 2022-Sept 2022)

Teaching Assistant, Monash University, Australia (Mar 2020-Oct 2021)

Research Assistant, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China (Mar 2018-May 2018)

Research Assistant, Southeast University, China (Jul 2017-Feb 2018)