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Bo Zou

Bo Zou is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also a faculty partner of the Center of Excellence for Airport Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bo received his Ph.D. in transportation engineering (University of California at Berkeley, with minors in industrial engineering and operations research, and economics), M.S. in transportation planning and management (Tsinghua University), Diplôme d’Ingénieur in general engineering (Ecole Centrale de Nantes), and B.E. in civil engineering (Tsinghua University).

Bo is excited about the many technology innovations that are happening and reshaping how humans move and move things, and has been passionately exploring new frontiers of mobility systems research driven by the technologies. In pursuing those uncharted areas, his research has been supported by agencies including the the World Bank, NSF, DOE, DOT, the American Public Transportation Association, the Illinois and California Departments of Transportation, and the Chicago Department of Aviation, among others. Bo also serves a number of roles in the transportation research community, including as an associate editor of Transportation Letters, an editorial board editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (the top journal in the field), and an editorial board member of both Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and Transportation Research Parts E: Logistics and Transportation Review (two leading journals in the field). More information can be found in his CV and Google Scholar page.

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Tanvir Ahamed

Tanvir Ahamed

Ph.D. student (2016-present)

Current work: Crowdsourced last-mile package delivery

Limon Barua

Limon Barua

Ph.D. student (2018-present)

Current work: Smart logistics; Infrastructure management

Nahid Parvez Farazi

Nahid Parvez Farazi

Ph.D. student (2018-present)

Current work: Artificial Intelligence for smart mobility systems; Inland waterway performance assessment

Pooria Choobchian

Pooria Choobchian

Ph.D. student (2018-present)

Current work: Connected vehicle technology in rail transportation; Cyber resilience and autonomous mobility

Zhe Zheng

Zhe Zheng

Visiting PhD student (2018-present)

Current work: Artificial Intelligence for aviation system performance modeling

Yu Lin

Yu Lin

Visiting Ph.D. student (2019-present)

Current work: Infrastructure planning in a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) environment

Lab Alumni Heading link

Hossein Noruzoliaee

Hossein Noruzoliaee, Ph.D., May 2018

Dissertation: Roads in Transition: Supply-Demand Equilibrium of
Private and Shared Mobility in a Mixed Autonomous / Human Driving Environment

Assistant Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Nabin Kafle

Nabin Kafle, Ph.D., May 2017

Dissertation: Advancing Urban Parcel Delivery System Using Crowdsoucing

Operations Research Developer, Southwest Airlines

Ahmadreza Talebian

Ahmadreza Talebian, Ph.D., May 2016

Dissertation: Planning Passenger Rail Service in a Competitive and Shared-Use Environment

Assistant Professor, Isfahan University of Technology

Diana Briones

Diana Briones, M.S., May 2019

Traffic Engineer, TranSmart/EJM Corporation

Ruyi Li

Ruyi Li, Visiting Scholar, 2014-2015

Deputy Director, Office of Board of Directors, Chongqing International Airport