People

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 (AP090, AEP060), 

Researchers (Postdocs and PhDs)

Yuanyuan Wu

Postdoc, Causal Reinforcement Learning

Yancheng Ling

Postdoc, Urban Knowledge Graph

Qi Zhang

PhD, Mobility 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

Xia Zhou

PhD, Collaborative Travel in Cities

Leizhen Wang

PhD, AI for Traffic Assignment

Pengfei Zhang

Research Affiliate, Individual Mobility

Yu Zhang

Visiting PhD, Shared Mobility

Research Assistants

Tong Mo, GEMINI Digital Twin – 4D Visualization Model, Research Assistant, KTH, 2024

Haoyan Wang, GEMINI Digital Twin – Demand Model from OSM, Research Assistant, KTH, 2024

 

Alumni

Trisha Chander Chandrasekar, LLM for information synthesis from literatures, Reserach Assistant, KTH, 2024.

Giuseppe Giovanni Paolo Perona, PT Demand Estimation from Cell Phone Data, Visiting Research Assistant, UC Berkeley, 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, PhD, Lund University, Sweden, 2024 (Assoc. Supervisor).

Yuchen Song, ML for Behavior Modeling, Visiting PhD, Southeast University, China, 2022-2023.

Peiling Wu, Digital Twin in Transportation, Research Assistant, 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.

Chunliang Wu

Transportation Engineering
Monash University Scholarship

Monash University, Australia, 2022. Main supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Signal Control
Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia

Wenhua Jiang

Transportation Engineering
RailCRC project

Monash University, Australia, 2022. Main supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Real-Time Mobility Prediction and Management in Urban Railway Systems
Current position: Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, UK

Seyedmostafa Zahedi

Transportation
TfL project

Northeastern University, United States, 2022, Assoc. supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Design and Optimization of Flexible Public Transport Systems
Current position: Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare ITE, United States

Tenyu Ryu

Transportation
MTR project

Northeastern University, United States, 2022, Assoc. supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Incident Management in Urban Railway Systems
Current position: AI and Data Engineer at Microsoft, United States

Prudence Blake

Transportation Engineering
GRIP project

Monash Univeristy, Australia, 2021. Assoc. supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Exploring Public Transport Markets Using the Concept of ‘Customer Fluctuation’.
Current position: Senior Consultant at Max Hardy Consulting

Kerem Tuncel

Industrial Engineering
HK MTR and TfL project

Notheastern University United States, 2021, Assoc. supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Real-Time Mobility Prediction and Management in Urban Railway Systems.
Current position: Data Scientist at Udemy, Turkey

Jiali Zhou

Transportation
MBTA project

Northeastern University, United States, 2021, Assoc. supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Urban Rail Simulation and Applications in Service Planning and Operations
Current position: Postdoc at HongKong University, Hong Kong

Yue Wang

Transportation 
TfL SCOOT project

Northeastern University, United States, 2021, Assoc. supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Urban Link Travel Time Estimation Using Multi-source Data
Current position: Research Scientist at Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd, China

Yangyang Zhao

Transportation Planning and Management
Government scholarship

Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 2019–2020, Visiting supervisor
Ph.D. Thesis: Unplanned Disruption Analysis in Urban Railway Systems
Current position: Lecturer at Chang’an University, China

Xin Chen

Transportation Engineering

Southeast University, China, 2022. Assoc. supervisor
MS Thesis: Data Driven Disruption Analysis in Metro Systems
Current position: PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia

Wilson Foo

Civil Engineering

Monash University, Australia, 2020. Main supervisor
MS Thesis: Future Mobility in Australia: A Review of on the Governance and Policy Challenges
Current position: Senior Transport Engineer, WSP, Australia

Abhishek Basu

Transportation
MTR Project

MIT, United States, 2018, Assoc. supervisor
MS Thesis: Customer Segmentation and Applications in Public Transport
Current position: Data Science Manager, Agero, Inc. United States