Dr. Siyuan (Hunter) Zhang is the Research Engineer of Autonomous Vehicle Mobility at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He also serves as the lab manager at AVMI. His research areas contain virtualization of unstructured terrain environment and dynamics of mechanical and mechatronic systems of autonomous ground vehicles, including i) dynamics of distributed/virtual electric driveline systems of fully electric vehicles and ii) vehicle performance control systems. He has been coordinating and supervising five industry collaborative research projects (~$1Million) and successfully presented the work at prestigious international conferences over the past years. He also has more than 100 hours of in-class teaching experiencing regarding vehicle dynamics, driveline system, hybrid electric vehicles, etc. He is the member of ASME Vehicle Design Committee. He serves as the reviewer and organizer for several journals and international conferences, such as Journal of Terramechanics, Journal of Autonomous Vehicle and Systems, ASME IDETC/CIE, SAE WCX, ISTVS, etc.