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Dr. Yin received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2002, his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996 and 1994 respectively. Prior to his current appointment at the University of Michigan, he was a faculty member at University of Florida between 2005 and 2016. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher and then assistant research engineer at University of California at Berkeley between 2002 and 2005. Between 1996 and 1999, he was a lecturer at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Assistant Research Scientist
Sina Bahrami
Sina received his Ph.D. in Civil-Transportation Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada in 2019. Sina’s research focuses on the optimal planning and design of emerging mobility systems and services in smart cities with electric and automated vehicles.
Postdocs
Dr. Tian Mi received her doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southeast University, China, in 2019. During her study, she spent 15 months at Budapest University of Technology and Economics as a visiting PhD student. Her research interests include distributed traffic control and tire dynamics.
PhD Students
Alex received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley in spring 2018 and joined LIMOS as a PhD student in the fall of that year. His primary research interests include transportation network modeling and optimization, smart cities, and intelligent transportation systems.
Tianming Liu
Tianming received his bachelor’s degree in Automation from Tsinghua University, China in 2020. His research interests include network modeling, smart cities and optimization of emerging transportation technologies.
Zhichen received her bachelor’s degree in Transportation Engineering from Southeast University, China in 2020. Her research interests include network modeling and traffic big data analysis.
Minghui received his bachelor’ s degree in Civil Engineering and minor in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China in 2021. His research interests include distributed traffic control, stochastic games, and day-to-day dynamical transportation systems.
Richard Lee
Richard received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from UT Austin in spring 2022 and joined LIMOS the following fall. His research interests include emerging traffic control systems and network modeling.
Ben received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in spring 2023. He then joined LIMOS as a PhD student the following Fall.
Visiting Students
Manzi Li
Manzi received her bachelor’s degree in Transportation Engineering from Tongji University, China in 2018. She is now a Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and joined LIMOS as a visiting scholar in October 2022. Her research interests include network reliability analysis and stochastic optimization with application in on-demand mobility services.
Former Students, Postdocs and Scholars
Dr. Mojtaba Abdolmaleki (May 2023)
Research Associate, University of Michigan, MI.
Dr. Daniel Vignon (July 2022)
Assistant Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering, New York University, NY.
Dr. Xiaotong Sun (May 2020)
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Dr. Zhengtian Xu (May 2020)
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University, Washington DC.
Dr. Liteng Zha (May 2017)
Operations Research Scientist at Facebook, Menlo Park, CA.
Dr. Zhibin Chen (May 2017)
Assistant Professor, New York University Shanghai, China.
Dr. Eleftheria Kontou (December 2016)
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Dr. Nima Shirmohammadi (December 2015)
Senior Analyst Manpower Planning, JetBlue, New York City, NY.
Dr. Mahmood Zangui (August 2014)
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Palo Alto, CA.
Dr. Fang He (August 2014)
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dr. Dimitra Michalaka (August 2012)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Citadel, Charleston, SC.
Dr. Md. Shahid Mamun (August 2012)
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dr. Ziqi Song (December 2011)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
Dr. Ashish Kulshrestha (December 2011)
Senior Data Scientist, WSP USA, San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Di Wu (August 2011)
Principal Scientist, JD.COM, San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
Dr. Lihui Zhang (August 2010)
Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, China.
Dr. Yingyan Lou (August 2009)
Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
Dr. Rafegh Aghamohammadi
Dr. Xiaotong Sun
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China
Dr. Sina Bahrami
Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr. Ali Shirazi
Assistant Professor, University of Maine
Dr. Zhibin Chen
Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Engineering, NYU Shanghai, China
Dr. Mehrdad Shahabi
Quantitative Analyst, Ford Motor Company, Michigan
Dr. Toru Seo
Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Caio Vitor Beojone
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Tingting Dong
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Jintao Ke
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Guoyang Qin
Tongji University, China
Liang Wang
Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, China
Hongli Xu
Associate Professor, Nanjing University, China
Yanni Yang
Assistant Professor, Capital University of Economics and Business, China
Hong Xiao
Communist Youth League Secretary, Beihang University, China
Wei Liu
Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Cheng Cheng
Tongji University, China
Haoyang Ding
Southeast University, China
Chenyang Yan
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Ye Li
Southeast University, China
Junji Urata
Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kang Chen
Associate Professor, Dalian Maritime University, China
Lu Tong
Assistant Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Ming Cai
Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Zebin Zhao
Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hui Zhao
Associate Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Shasha Shi
Associate Professor, Central South University, China
Hualing Ren
Associate Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Hui Xiong
Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Fang Cao
Assistant Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China