About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the C2SMART University Transportation Center at New York University. I earned my Ph.D. in Transportation from NYU in 2024, advised by Prof. Joseph Chow. Prior to my time at NYU, I completed my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Urban Planning at Tongji University.

As an urban and transportation scientist, I focus on the intersection of Urban Computing, Choice Modeling, and Transportation Logistics:

Urban Computing and AI: Leaveraging mobility, image, and text data along with deep learning computation to explore land use patterns, urban park visits, and climate change sentiments.
Choice Modeling with Large-scale Dataset: Developing nonparametric mixed logit models to estimate taste heterogeneity in activity schedules, travel modes, and multimodal trip routes; applying these models to assess the impacts of emerging services, congestion pricing, and EV charging infrastructure on mobility, economy, and social equity.
Equity-aware Transportation Logistics: Combining mathematical programming and equity metrics to support city- and state-wide mobility service design; quantifying trade-offs between transportation efficiency and equity, as well as among different stakeholder groups.

News and Updates

June 2025: My first-authored paper “Planning for rhythmized urban parks: Temporal park classification and modes of action” has been published on Journal of the American Planning Association!
April 2025: My first-authored paper “Nonparametric mixed logit model with market-level parameters estimated from market share data” has been published on Transportation Research Part B: Methodological!
October 2024: Delighted to be invited to Harvard-MIT Economics and Policy of Electric Vehicle Transportation Infrastructure Workshop!
July 2024: My first-authored paper “Mobility service design with equity-aware choice-based decision-support tool: New York case study” has been published on Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment!
July 2024: Delighted to be invited to International Urban Planning Salon hold in Peking University. See you in Beijing!
December 2022: My first-authored paper “A random-utility-consistent machine learning method to estimate agents’ joint activity scheduling choice from a ubiquitous data set” has been published on Transportation Research Part B: Methodological!
August 2022: My first_authored paper “Evaluating geographic and social inequity of urban parks in Shanghai through mobile phone-derived human activities” has been published on Urban Forestry & Urban Greening!
August 2022: Very excited to join Replica Inc. as a Research Scientist Intern!
April 2022: My first-authored paper “Exploring land use functional variance using mobile phone derived human activity data in Shanghai” has been published on Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science!