Director
Zhenliang Ma
TRENoP Associate Professor at KTH
Faculty Member of Digital Futures and KTH ITRL Lab, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Public Transportation, TRB Committee Member (AP017 Standing Committee on Transit Data and Emerging Technologies),
Researchers (Postdocs and PhDs)
Benjamin Cottreau
Postdoc, Causal Machine Learning
Yancheng Ling
Postdoc, Urban Knowledge Graph
Haoye Chen
PhD, Multimodal Autonomous Mobility
Jonas Jostmann
PhD. Digital Twin in Transportation
Michelle Toinette van Ardenne
PhD, Personalized Information in Public Transportation
Giancarlo Antonio Herring-Calvo
PhD, DMDU for Transport Planning
Zhenlin Qin
PhD, Data Science and Mobility
Seyedeh Zahra Mousavi Ziabari
PhD, Data/AI for Public Transportation
Leizhen Wang
PhD, AI for Traffic Assignment
Research Affiliates/Assistants
- Marina Wiemers. Digital Twin Based Traffic Signal Control. DF Summer Research Intern, KTH, Sweden, 2025-
- Jinghan Xu. Green View Index Estimation from Satellite Data. DF Summer Research Intern, KTH, Sweden, 2025-
- Tong Mo. GEMINI Digital Twin – 4D Visualization Model, Research Assistant, KTH, Sweden, 2024-
- Pengfei Zhang. Individual Mobility Prediction. Research Affiliate, Henan Academy of Sciences, China, 2019-Now
Alumni
Postdocs
- Yuanyuan Wu, Causal Reinforcement Learning using Public Transport Data. Transport Science, KTH, Sweden, 2023-2025.
- Alex Markham, Causal Behavior Modeling using Travel Trajectory Data. Mathematics, KTH, Sweden, 2023-2025.
- Songhua Hu. Digital Twin for Traffic Emission Monitoring and Prediction. MIT, United States, 2022-2024.
PhDs
- Xia Zhou. Demand Assignment Models and Incentive Designs in Public Transportation. PhD, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia, 2022-2025.
- Qi Zhang. Data-Driven Graphical Modelling and Applications in Public Transportation. PhD in Transport Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2021-2025. (Thesis link)
- Chunliang Wu. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Signal Control. PhD in Transport Engineering, Monash University, Australia, 2019-2022. (Thesis link)
- Wenhua Jiang. Real-Time Mobility Prediction and Management in Urban Railway Systems. PhD in Transport Engineering, Monash University, Australia, 2019-2022. (Thesis link)
- Prudence Blake. Investigating a New Approach to Market Change Measurement in Public Transport. PhD in Transport Engineering, Monash University, Australia, 2019-2021. (Thesis link)
Visiting researchers/students
- Xuwen Jia. Real-Time Estimation of Train Dynamics and Driver Behavior for Adaptive Railway Control. Visiting PhD, UCL, UK, 2025.
- Yu Zhang. Mathcing models for on-demand mobility services. Visiting PhD, Beihang University, China, 2024-2025.
- Jaylen Jordan Jones. Digital twin for transport simulation, DF Summer Internship, UC Berkeley, USA, 2025.
- Yongqiu Zhu. Digital Futures Earch Career Researcher. Assistant Professor, TU Delft, Netherlands, 2024.
- Haoyan Wang. GEMINI Digital Twin – Demand Model from OSM, Research Assistant, KTH, Swden, 202
- Trisha Chander Chandrasekar. LLM for information synthesis from literatures. Reserach Assistant, KTH, Sweden 2024.
- Giuseppe Giovanni Paolo Perona. PT Demand Estimation from Cell Phone Data. DF Summer Research Intern, UC Berkeley, USA 2024.
- José Edgardo Niño Baez. Operational strategies in real-time at the terminal and on the route of a multi-line public transportation system with a mixed fleet. Visiting PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, 2024.
- Kah Yong Tiong. Data-driven Train Delay Prediction. Co-supervised PhD, Lund University, Sweden, 2022-2024.
- Yuchen Song. ML for Behavior Modeling. Visiting PhD, Southeast University, China, 2022-2023.
- Peiling Wu. Digital Twin in Transportation. DF Summer Research Intern, KTH, Sweden, 2023.
- Jiayi Feng. Data Embedding for Deep Learning Models. Research Assistant, KTH, Sweden, 2023.
- Xiao Lin. Freight and Traffic Modeling, Visiting Postdoc. TU Delft, Netherlands, 2023.
- Kerem Tuncel. Data driven models for congested urban mobility networks. Co-supervised PhD, NEU, USA, 2017-2021.
- Seyedmostafa Zahedi. Integration of Public Transportation and Mobility-on-Demand Services. Co-supervised PhD, NEU, USA, 2017-2021.