Staff Profile

Previous Academic Positions

2022–2023 Senior Lecturer in Transport Systems, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom 

2020–2022 Research Associate, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

2018–2019 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany 

2015–2018 Academic Positions, Chang`an University, China 

Qualifications

2012 – 2015 PhD: Transport Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2010 – 2011 MSc: Transport Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

2006 – 2010 BSc: Transport Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Other activities

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Charted Member, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)

Associate Editor, Transportation Research Record (TRR)

Academic Editor, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

Fellow, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Sustainable Tourism Council

Academic Committee Member, National Annual Forum of Urban Planning Society of China

Session Chair, Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies

Technical Committee Member, World Transport Convention (WRC)

Program Committee Member, SUMO User Conference

Technical Committee Member, International Conference of Transport Infrastructure and Materials

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Research Areas

• Urban mobility data computing

• Motorway traffic flow control and management

• Digital twins for smart transport

• Resilience and sustainability in transport systems

• Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric (CASE) transport modelling and operations

• Data-centric approaches in transportation

• AI Applications in transportation, e.g., transformer-like architectures, graph neural networks, auto machine learning (AutoML) and deep reinforcement learning