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2025

• 8/2025: Our work “Planning UAM network under uncertain travelers’ preferences: A sequential two-layer stochastic optimization approach” (first author: Tao Guo) was published in Transportation Research Part A.

• 7/2025: Our work “A sustainable multi-objective framework for multi-phased, capacitated vertiport siting with land use integration.” (first author: Hao Wu) was published in Communications in Transportation Research.

• 6/2025: The book Research Handbook on Transport and COVID-19 edited by Junyi Zhang, Ying Jiang, and Yoshitsugu Hayashi was published. We authored Chapter 20 “Framework for evaluating urban resilience to pandemics: analysis of transport-related containment policies”.

• 5/2025: Our work “Dynamic network capacity allocation using model predictive control with sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics” was published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• 5/2025: Our work “Post-disruption lane reversal optimization with surrogate modeling to improve urban traffic resilience” was published in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.

• 4/2025: Our work “Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities” (first author: Jiannan Dai) was published in Cities.

• 2/2025: Our work “Visual comparative analytics of multimodal transportation” (first author: Zikun Deng) was published in Visual Informatics.

• 2/2025: Our work “TraSculptor: Visual Analytics for Enhanced Decision-Making in Road Traffic Planning” (first author: Zikun Deng) was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

• 1/2025: I joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

• 1/2025: We presented our work “Modeling Crowdedness at Public Transport Stations During Special Events: A Comparative Study of Eleven Cities” in the TRB conference in Washington DC, USA (05.01.2025 - 09.01.2025).

2024

• 12/2024: Our work “Efficient Cloud-Sourced Transport Mode Detection Using Trajectory Data: A Semi-Supervised Asynchronous Federated Learning Approach” (first author: Ningkang Yang) was published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

• 9/2024: We presented our work “Simulation-based network capacity allocation optimization for traffic resilience via enhanced mixed stochastic approximation” [slides] in the TRC-30 conference in Crete, Greece (02.09.2024 - 04.09.2024).

• 8/2024: I passed my Ph.D. thesis defense with distinction. The topic is “Evaluation and simulation-based optimization of urban traffic resilience”.

• 5/2024: Our work “Transfer Learning for Transportation Demand Resilience Pattern Prediction Using Floating Car Data” (first author: Ningkang Yang) was published in Transportation Research Record.

• 4/2024: Our work “Traffic resilience quantification based on macroscopic fundamental diagrams and analysis using topological attributes” was published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

• 3/2024: Our work “Tucker factorization-based tensor completion for robust traffic data imputation” (first author: Cheng Lyu) was published in Transportation Research Part C.

• 2/2024: Our work “A similarity-based data-driven car-following model considering driver heterogeneity” (first author: Zi-Jian Liu) was published in Transportation Research Procedia.

• 1/2024: We presented our work “Transfer learning for transportation system resilience patterns prediction using floating car data” in the TRB conference in Washington DC, USA (07.01.2024 - 11.01.2024).

2023

• 12/2023: Our work “A two-stage stochastic programming approach for dynamic OD estimation using LBSN data” was accepted by Transportation Research Part C.

• 12/2023: Our work “Analyzing the impact of fare-free public transport policies on crowding patterns at stations using crowdsensing data” was accepted by Transportation Research Part A.

• 12/2023: We presented our work “Surrogate modeling for recovery measures optimization to improve traffic resilience” in the conference INSTR2023 in Hong Kong, China (13.12.2023 - 14.12.2023).

• 10/2023: Our work “On the resilience of railway station demand in response to unexpected events: A case study of Japan in COVID-19” (first author: Jiannan Dai) was awarded the Best PhD Poster Award at EWGT2023.

• 09/2023: We presented our works in the conference EWGT2023 in Santander, Spain (06.09.2023 - 08.09.2023).