For Immediate Release
September 22, 2022

Dr. Wuping Xin Joins Caliper as CTO

Wuping Xin

NEWTON, MA (USA) - Caliper Corporation is pleased to announce that Dr. Wuping Xin, P.E. has joined the firm as Chief Technology Officer.  Dr. Xin is an international authority on traffic signal systems with two decades of experience as an innovative traffic engineer and software developer.

He has extensive experience in traffic modeling analysis and simulation, ITS system integration, and real-time traffic signal optimization and a deep knowledge of traffic control hardware, ITS, and connected vehicle standards. He is an accomplished software developer, an expert in modern C++ and a member of the ISO C++ Programming Language Committee. Dr. Xin also serves as Co-Chair of Transportation Research Board's Traffic Signal Control System (ACP25) Signal Timing Subcommittee.

In his distinguished career, Dr. Xin has led the development of several software systems with real-world impacts, including solutions for emergency evacuation planning, connected vehicle cyber security analysis, adaptive traffic signal control, and dynamic congestion pricing.

Dr. Howard Slavin, Caliper's President, stated that “we are delighted to augment our leadership team with a person of Wuping's vision and technical expertise as we continue to create new and improved software tools and integrated solutions for transportation professionals.” At Caliper, Dr. Xin will lead Caliper's technical efforts to address traffic management's hardest technical challenges through state-of-the-art simulation modeling, simulation-augmented Artificial Intelligence, intelligent traffic control, and connected vehicle technologies. He will play a key role in charting the evolution of Caliper's industry-leading software products for traffic simulation and analysis.

Caliper is a prominent U.S. transportation software, consulting, and research firm and the maker of TransCAD transportation planning and logistics software, TransModeler traffic engineering and traffic simulation software, and Maptitude GIS software for strategic business mapping and data analysis. Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, Caliper is a leading developer of professional transportation and mapping software with more than 100,000 users in over 80 countries.