I am an incoming Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I received a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2024, and a B.S. degree in Traffic Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University in 2018. My research interests encompass the application of diverse techniques from optimization, control, economics, and machine learning to foster efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility ecosystems. My research primarily focuses on the design, modeling, and analysis of shared mobility systems, including ride-hailing, autonomous mobility-on-demand, shared micromobility, etc. Specifically, my recent works have centered around the regulation of shared mobility in interaction with public transport within multimodal transportation systems, with a particular emphasis on transport equity.

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• 2024/10: I successfully defended my doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Regulating shared mobility services and transportation network companies: from efficiency to equity’.
• 2024/08: Our paper “Synergizing shared micromobility and public transit towards an equitable multimodal transportation network” was accepted by Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
• 2024/07: I was granted the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award in the 2023-2024 Academic year by the HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School.
• 2024/05: I started my research visit at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Kameshwar Poolla.
• 2024/03: Our paper “Regulating For-Hire Autonomous Vehicles for An Equitable Multimodal Transportation Network” was accepted by Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.
• 2024/02: Our paper “Regulating Transportation Network Companies with a Mixture of Autonomous Vehicles and For-Hire Human Drivers” was accepted by Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
• 2024/01: I presented our work “Evaluating the equity impacts of shared micromobility in multimodal transportation networks” in 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC, US.
• 2024/01: I was granted the Overseas Research Award by the HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School for my research visit at University of California, Berkeley.
• 2024/01: Our paper “Charging Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleet for Mobility-on-Demand Services: Plug in or Swap out?” was accepted by Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.