I will be presenting at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. I kindly invite you to attend my talk! (Please see the start page for more infomation)
Driven by advances in connectivity, autonomy, shared mobility, and electrification, today’s transportation systems are transforming in ways that require reimagining of infrastructure and operations to ensure accessible, efficient, and equitable mobility.
The evolving dynamics of transportation systems are shaped by three interdependent pillars:
Infrastructure design: Integrating appropriate technological infrastructure layers, including Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and electrification, into existing transportation frameworks is crucial to enhancing system capacity and diversity.
Operational policies: Developing adaptive operational schemes and policies is pivotal to facilitating seamless adoption by the public while maintaining service level equilibria between traditional and emerging services.
User interactions: Understanding transportation user behaviors is fundamental to synchronizing these pillars, enabling the modeling of service dynamics that are responsive to user needs and preferences.
I develop innovative mathematical frameworks that capture the complex interplay among these three system pillars. These models balance efficiency and granularity by using coarse approximations where appropriate while maintaining high-resolution modeling where precision is essential. My solutions integrate diverse methodologies, including mathematical optimization, scalable algorithm design, artificial intelligence, traffic flow theory, game theory, simulation, and behavioral science.
Overall, my research advances next-generation transportation systems by accounting for both providers and users through a structured and scalable tripod approach. This framework enables the analysis of mobility operations that are socially responsive and practically implementable, while also being transferable to other societal systems, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-domain innovation.