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Dengfeng Sun

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2004
Air Traffic Management and OptimizationTraffic control and managementAviation Industry Analysis and TrendsTransportation Planning and OptimizationDistributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

Publications

139

Citations

1,786

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

23

Publishing since 2004

Research summary
AI-generated

Dengfeng Sun works on transportation and autonomy systems, including air traffic management, urban air mobility, connected and autonomous vehicles, and multi-agent coordination. Much of the work involves optimization, control theory, and machine learning methods applied to problems like route planning, traffic simulation, vehicle platooning, and drone-based object detection. Prospective students would likely engage with mathematical modeling, algorithm design, and simulation-based evaluation in transportation and aerospace contexts.

Air traffic management and urban air mobilityConnected and autonomous vehicle controlMulti-agent and distributed optimizationTransportation planning and route optimizationMachine learning for autonomy and detection

Publication output has grown somewhat unevenly over the past decade, dipping in some years (e.g., 2018, 2022) but showing a generally increasing trend toward 2024-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.4/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 8 publications202021: 10 publications10212022: 3 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 8 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 9 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×13
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems×6
  • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems×5
  • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems×3
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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