Dr Xiaoxiang Na

Dr Xiaoxiang Na is a University Assistant Professor in Applied Mechanics at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (CUED). His research interests include vehicle in-service monitoring, energy performance evaluation, and driver-vehicle dynamics. He is a lead investigator with the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium. Dr Na received his BSc and MSc degrees in Automotive Engineering from Jilin University, China, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He joined the Driver-Vehicle Dynamics Group at CUED as a PhD student in 2010 and received his PhD in 2014. He has worked at CUED as a Research Associate and Senior Research Associate before being appointed to his current position in 2023.

Xiaoxiang Na is an University Assistant Professor in Applied Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, specializing in road freight decarbonisation and heavy goods vehicle technologies. Their research integrates digital twin and parallel intelligence to advance intelligent transportation systems. Key areas include autonomous driving, cyber-physical systems, and sustainable mobility solutions. Na's work explores game-theoretic models for human-vehicle interaction, decision-making in driver-automation shared control, and machine learning for road safety applications such as pothole detection and driver fatigue recognition. Their research contributes to the development of safe, secure, and sustainable intelligent transportation systems aligned with Industry 5.0 and Transportation 5.0 frameworks.