Recently, the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024), the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), was held in Milan, Italy. PhD student Zhao Hanxu, supervised by Professor Zhang Liguo from the School of Information Science and Technology at BJUT, was awarded the 2024 IEEE CSS Graduate Collaboration Fellowship Award for his research contributions in the field of boundary control of hybrid traffic flow systems.

The Graduate Collaboration Fellowship Award is established and funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society to promote postgraduate education in the area of Systems and Control. No more than 10 winners are selected annually by the CSS Awards Committee through two rounds of scoring and discussion.

Zhao Hanxu's award-winning project is titled "Distributed Sampling Control of Hybrid Traffic Systems Based on Autonomous Vehicles." This project addresses urban road traffic systems composed of both human-driven and autonomous vehicles. By using intelligent vehicles as control units for vehicle-road coordination, it suppresses the occurrence and spread of traffic shockwaves and traffic congestion, providing new solutions for modern urban road traffic control.