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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 received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada in 2019. Then, he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan, before joining Technical University of Eindhoven as an assistant professor. Sina rejoined LIMOS in 2023 as an assistant research scientist. His research focuses on the optimal planning and design of emerging mobility systems and services in smart cities with electric and automated vehicles.
Lecturer
Dr Tian Mi received her Bachelor’s degree and PhD degree from Southeast University, China in 2012 and 2019, respectively. She was a visiting student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary during her PhD studies. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor between 2019 and 2023. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, teaching courses related to dynamics and control. Her research interests include vehicle dynamics and transportation systems.
Postdocs
Manzi Li
Manzi received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2023. Her research interests include network reliability analysis, on-demand mobility service design, and transportation electrification.
PhD Students
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.
Xi Lin
Xi joined LIMOS in Winter 2024. Prior to coming to Michigan, he earned a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Tsinghua University in 2023. During his time at Tsinghua, he worked as a Research Associate, where his research encompassed a broad range of subjects including connected and automated vehicle control, future mobility system design, transportation management, and maritime transportation analytics. Xi’s current research interests lie at the intersection of advanced traffic control and intelligent system operations.
Visiting Students
Zhuoye is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong currently, and he received his Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. His research interests include shared mobility, on-demand mobility service and network modeling.
Former Students, Postdocs and Scholars
Dr. Alexander Sundt (December 2023)
Research Associate, University of Michigan, MI.
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)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
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. Tian Mi
Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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
Manzi Li
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
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