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I am currently a research scientist at Lyft, working on real-time driver incentive design. I obtained my Transportation Ph.D. degree at MIT in 2022 and my dual Master's degree in Transportation and Computer Science at MIT in 2020. Before joining MIT, I obtained my dual Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and Management from Tsinghua University. My research focuses on the resilience of transportation systems with a specific application in public transit (PT), including 1) network performance and passenger behavior monitoring, 2) incident-aware PT control strategy design, and 3) interactions between PT and other transportation modes. My work utilizes various mathematical techniques including optimization (robust/integer/non-linear), probability and statistics, machine learning (deep/reinforcement learning), econometrics, and game theory.
Recent Posts
- Jan, 2023: I am honored to be awarded the COTA Best Dissertation Award!
- Sep, 2022: I have joined Lyft as an Algorithm Data Scientist base in San Francisco, working on Real-time Driver Incentive Design.
- Aug, 2022: Our new paper "Ex Post Path Choice Estimation for Urban Rail Systems Using Smart Card Data: An Aggregated Time-Space Hypernetwork Approach" was accepcted by Transportation Science.
- July, 2022: I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
- Feb, 2022: Our new paper "Inferring Passenger Responses to Urban Rail Disruptions Using Smart Card Data: A Probabilistic Framework" has been published online at Transportation Research Part E.
- July, 2021: We won the Runner Up Award (2nd Place) in the Amazon Last-Mile Routing Research Challenge with a total of $50,000 cash prize shared with my excellent teammates Xiaotong Guo and Qingyi Wang. Feel free to find more details at Amazon Science and MIT News.
- June, 2021: Our new paper “Impacts of Subjective Evaluations and Inertia from Existing Travel Modes on Adoption of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand” was accepcted by Transportation Research Part C.
- April, 2021: Our new paper “Impact of Pricing Policy Change on On-street Parking Demand and User Satisfaction: A Case Study in Nanning, China” was accepcted by Transportation Research Part A.
- April, 2021: I was awarded the UPS PhD Fellowship for 2021-22 academic years by MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics.
