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Current Students and PostDocs/Researchers:
Yuan Wang (PhD) Makarand Gawade (PhD) Lucas Cruse (PhD) Natalia Barbour (PhD) Hualong Tang (PhD) Zhiqiang Wu (PhD) Yujie Guo (PhD) Ali Shamansouri (MS) Rocio Frej Vitalle (MS) Vahid Mahmoodian (PhD) Tingting Zhao (PostDoc) Students Graduated from NexTS Lab: Natalia Barbour (PhD, May 2019, MIT PostDoc) Aritra Pal (PhD, May 2017, Air Liquide Delaware Research and Technology Center, Research Scientist) Nikhil Menon (PhD, Dec. 2016, USF CUTR Post-doc) Rui Guo (PhD, May 2015, Texas Tech Instructor, U of Florida Researcher) Yu An (PhD, May 2014) Qing Wang (PhD, May 2013, Apple Inc.) Jacob Mirabella (MS, May 2013, Cambridge Systematics) Bing Huang (May PhD, May 2012) Nagesh Nayak (PhD, May 2012, Citi Bank) Arjun Chauhan (MS, May 2012, ) Hongyun Chen (PhD, May 2010, ERAU Faculty) |
Current Visiting Scholars and Students:
Xiangling Zhao (Scholar, Civil Aviation University of China) Yue Yang (Scholar, Civil Aviation University of China) Mei Tao (Scholar, Civil Aviation University of China) Past Visiting Scholars: Hang Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics ) Meng Jia (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Rong Hu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Junfeng Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Yafei Li (Civil Aviation University of China) Xiaowei Tang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Fang Sun (Civil Aviation University of China) Yang Liu (Beihang University) Quan Shao (Nanjing Aeronautics and Astronautics University) Yingyan Liu (Changan University, China) Yigang Huang (Civil Aviation University of China) Xinming Tang (Nanjing Aeronautics and Astronautics University) Ming Zhang (Nanjing Aeronautics and Astronautics University) Dashan Wang (Traffic Safety Research Center, MoPS, China) Leiyuan Zhang (Traffic Safety Research Center, MoPS, China) Former Researcher Fang Sun (Researcher May 2018 - May 2019, Now Civil Aviation University of China ) |
Graduate Research Assistants
Mr. Ali Shamansouri is currently an M.S. student in civil and environmental engineering at the University of
South Florida. He earned his bachelor of civil and environmental engineering from the Amirkabir
University of Technology, Iran in 2017. Motivated by Dr. Zhang’s research areas and passionate group,
Ali joined her research group in January 2018 and is currently working with Dr. Zhao. His research
interests include traffic simulation and modeling, traffic management and sustainable transportation.
South Florida. He earned his bachelor of civil and environmental engineering from the Amirkabir
University of Technology, Iran in 2017. Motivated by Dr. Zhang’s research areas and passionate group,
Ali joined her research group in January 2018 and is currently working with Dr. Zhao. His research
interests include traffic simulation and modeling, traffic management and sustainable transportation.
Mr. Yujie Guo got his Bachelor's degree in civil engineering from University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) in 2016. Then he went to USA and got master's degree in the concentration of transportation from Northwestern University in 2017. In spring 2018, he joined Dr. Zhang's group. His research interests including transportation data visualization, machine learning, public transit and shared mobility. At leisure time, he likes playing soccer, listening to music and watching American drama.
Mr. Hualong Tang is currently pursuing a PhD degree in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. He jointed USF in Spring 2017. He has graduated with his bachelors in Automation from Chongqing University (China).He received his Master's degree in Civil Aviation University of China in Transportation Management and Planning. He is working as a research assistant with Dr. Yu Zhang and conducting projects related to air transportation. His research interests focus on air transportation system performance measurement and management, airport design, management, and operation, and environment and energy efficiency.
Mr. Zhiqiang Wu got his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at Chang'an University. Zhiqiang joined Dr. Zhang's group in August 2016 and now is pursuing his PhD degree in Civil and Environment Engineering at USF. His research interests focus on multimodal charging facility deployment modeling for electric vehicles in the context of emerging technologies (i.e. dynamic wireless charging, V2V and V2I connectivity, smart charging, etc.)
Ms. Yuan Wang got her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at Changsha University of Science & Technology (Changsha, China) in 2010, and obtained her master’s degree in Transportation Engineering concentrated on
pavement mechanical analysis at Southeast University (Nanjing, China) in 2013. She then worded as an urban road
and highway designer in Beijing Municipal Road & Bridge Construction Holding (Group) Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China).Yuan
joined Dr. Yu Zhang's research group in January, 2015 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. Her research interests focus on airport performance and air traffic management.
pavement mechanical analysis at Southeast University (Nanjing, China) in 2013. She then worded as an urban road
and highway designer in Beijing Municipal Road & Bridge Construction Holding (Group) Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China).Yuan
joined Dr. Yu Zhang's research group in January, 2015 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. Her research interests focus on airport performance and air traffic management.
Mr. Makarand Gawade is currently pursuing PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. He joined USF in January 2010. His research interests include transportation network analysis, travel demand modeling and
transportation sustainability. He received his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from University of Mumbai in 2008. He has
worked as a graduate research assistant and teaching assistant with Dr. Yu Zhang. His paper, "Where to launch a new
passenger air route between U.S and China" won the best paper award at ICRAT2012. He has also worked as a
research assistant in CUTR with Dr. Achilleas Kourtellis on projects related to pedestrian safety. His dissertation topic
is related to quantifying performance of multimodal public transit networks. His expected date of graduation is
December 2015.
transportation sustainability. He received his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from University of Mumbai in 2008. He has
worked as a graduate research assistant and teaching assistant with Dr. Yu Zhang. His paper, "Where to launch a new
passenger air route between U.S and China" won the best paper award at ICRAT2012. He has also worked as a
research assistant in CUTR with Dr. Achilleas Kourtellis on projects related to pedestrian safety. His dissertation topic
is related to quantifying performance of multimodal public transit networks. His expected date of graduation is
December 2015.
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Mr. Chengcheng Mou received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from National University of Malaysia in 2011, and M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of South Florida in 2015. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Engineering at USF supervised by Dr. Yicheng Tu, and a Research Assistant for Dr. Yu Zhang from Spring 2015 till now. His research interests focus on Mining Massive Dataset.
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Mrs. Natalia Barbour is currently pursuing a PhD degree in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. She joined USF in August 2015. She has graduated with her Bachelors in Physics from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland). She got her Master's Degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she was a Graduate Research Assistant and served as the President of the UAB Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter. She was also involved in community outreach and conducted workshops to introduce the area of engineering through hands on activities to middle school girls and young children. During her master’s she used GIS spatial analysis tool to research food desserts in the state of Alabama and her work was published in Athens Journal of Health (2014). Currently she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and working on determining her dissertation topic. She has interests in sustainable transportation systems, public transit and freeway operations.
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Visiting Scholars
Dr. Rong Hu is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Civil Aviation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He visits Dr. Zhang’s research group from Dec. 2017 to Dec. 2018. He obtained his B.E. and Ph.D. in Management at the NUAA in 2003 and 2010. His research interests include (1) airport operation and environmental protection, (2) analysis and optimization of civil aviation economics. He supported by National Science Foundation of China, Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. He is also a member of Chinese Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation of China, Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology, Journal of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, etc.
Dr. Junfeng ZHANG works at USF as a visiting scholar under the supervision of Dr. Yu ZHANG from Dec. 2017 to Dec. 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor in College of Civil Aviation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Automation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2008. His research interests include (1) 4D Trajectory Generation, Prediction and Optimization; (2) Decision Support Tool (DST) for the Air Traffic Control, like AMAN, DMAN and the integration of AMAN/DMAN. These researches are supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, the Boeing Company or the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd..
Dr. Yafei Li received his Ph.D. at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS in Geography Information System in 2012. He obtained his M.S. degree in resource management from Beijing Normal University, China in July 2009 and his B.S. degree in Geography Information System in 2006 from Henan University. His primary research interests are the air traffic management, flight procedure design and transportation and land use.
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Dr. Quan Shao is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Civil Aviation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He visits Dr. Zhang’s research group from Jan. 2016 to Jan. 2017. He obtained her B.E. and M.S. in Safety Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 and 2006. He obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering at the Tsinghua University in 2009. His research interests include (1) intelligent decision system, and (2) transportation networking analysis. Application fields of research are (1) emergency decision support system, supported by NSF of China and Foundation of Ministry of Education of China; (2) flight delay propagation analysis, supported by NSF of China and NSF of Jiangsu and (3) civil aviation emergency event pre-warning and decision making, supported by NSF of China and NSF of Jiangsu. He also is a member of Chinese Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation, Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University, Journal of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, etc.
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Dr Ming Zhang is associate professor of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Nanjing, China). As a visiting scholar of USF, he visit Dr. Zhang’s research group from Aug.2014 to Aug.2015.He obtained his B.E. in mechanical engineering in 1997 from NUAA. He obtained his master degree and Ph.D. in 2003 and 2010 from NUAA.His research interests focus on dynamic airspace configuration, airspace and airfield capacity and delay, and general aviation rescue system in air transportation.
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Dr. Xinmin Tang is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Civil Aviation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2007. His research interests include (1) Petri Net and Discrete Event Dynamic System theory; (2) Hybrid System Theory. Application fields of research are (1) Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System, supported by NSF of China and Foundation of Ministry of Education of China; (2) Next generation of air traffic control automation system, supported by NSF of China and NSF of Jiangsu ; (3) Runway Incursion Prevention System, supported by NSF of China and NSF of Jiangsu. All these research are supported by National Science Foundation of China and 2 Science Foundation of China Jiangsu. He is authorized two national patents named "A-SMGCS based on DEDS controller" and "ATC System based on 4D TBO" respectively. He won the Outstanding Young Teachers honorary title in "Jiangsu Province Qing-Lan" Program in 2012 and became host of Talent of Jiangsu Province “Six Talent Peaks” in 2013.He also is a member of Chinese Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation, external manuscript reviewer for Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University, Journal of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, etc.
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Yigang Huang is currently a Lecturer of Civil Aviation University of China. He obtained his B.E. in Air Traffic Management at CAUC in 2002. He obtained his master degree in Air Traffic Flow Management at CAUC in 2010. As a visiting scholar of USF, he visit Dr. Zhang’s research group from Sep. 2015 to MAR. 2016. His research interests include (1) air traffic controller performance evaluation; (2) airport and airspace capacity assessment; (3) aviation safety.
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Students Graduated from NexTS-Lab
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Dr. Hongyun Chen is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the USF in 2010. Prior to her join at ERAU, Dr. Chen worked at CUTR since 2007 and has actively performed the researches in the area of highway safety and geometric designs. She received the certifications from FDOT for the "Excellent in Team Award" for Florida Motorcycle Safety Coalition and Minority Task Force on Occupant Protection. She was also the recipient of "Georgia Brosch Memorial Transportation Scholarship" from CUTR in 2010, and the "Helene M. Overly Transportation Scholarship" from WTS in 2011, and several competition winners from ITE and STC. During her graduate study, she led the USF ITE student chapter from 2007 to 2009 and CSSA from 2008 to 2011. Her research interests include transportation safety, highway geometric design, traffic operation, signal timing control, incident management, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and statistical modeling in highway safety.
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Dr. Nagesh Nayak obtained his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at USF in 2012. He joined USF in August 2008 after he obtained his B.E. in Civil Engineering from University of Mumbai in India. His research interests include airport management, air traffic flow management, transportation planning and transportation network modeling. He was a research assistant for Professor Yu Zhang from Fall 2008 to Sprin 2010. Since last year, he has worked at CUTR as a Research Assistant with Dr. Sissinio Concas on the TRIMMS model. Nagesh has got three research papers published, and the fourth has been submitted recently. Nagesh, together with his major advisor, Professor Yu Zhang, received the Fred Burggraf Award presented by Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, which recognizes excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger. Nagesh is also a recipient of the Graduate Research Award from Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) for annual year 2009-2010, won ITS Florida - Anne Brewer Shanklin Scholarship Award in 2009 and 2011 and CUTR Georgia Brosch Award in 2011. Besides exceptional academic performance, Nagesh also participates actively in student organizations. He was the President of ITE Student Chapter at USF in 2009 and the President of Students of India Association in 2010. He is also a part of USF sports team at American College Cricket tournaments.He is currently working at Citi as an analyst.
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Dr. Bing Huang obtained his B.S. in Computer Science in 2005 from Nanjing University of Technology in China. He obtained his M.S. in Civil Engineering in 2008 from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering with concentration in transportation in May 2012 from University of South Florida. His research interests focus on traffic safety and operations, traffic micro-simulation and calibration, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), highway crash analysis, data management in transportation engineering, and statistical modeling in transportation. His research work has been presented at national conferences and published in several transportation journals. His Ph.D. dissertation topic is ¡°Understanding Operating Speed Variation of Multilane Highways with New Access Density Definition and Simulation Outputs¡±. He worked as a lecturer at Department of Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies in Morgan State University and now is a traffic engineer at Century Engineering, Inc.
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Mr. Jacob Mirabella got his Bachelor and M.S. degrees from Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Jacob interned at Kisinger Campo & Associates in 2011 and joined Dr. Zhang¡¯s research group in February 2012. His primary interest is the promotion of sustainable transportation through intersection efficiency, renewable energy, and mass transit. Mr. Mirabella is now working as a traffic engineer at Albeck Gerken, Inc.
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Dr. Qing Wang got her bachelor degree at Tongji University (Shanghai, China) in 2009. She then joined USF and got her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Duringthe years at USF, she worked with Dr. Yu Zhang on projects sponsored by FAA, emphasizing on airfield performance metrics development. Qing's dissertation work developed a real-time integrated optimization tools for airpor airfield operations management (RTI-ASOM). She is now working at Apple Inc. on production capacity management.
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Dr. An, Yu received his bachelor degree in 2006 and his master’s degree in 2008 from the TianJin University, TianJin, China. He was co-advised by Dr. Zhang and Dr. Zeng and worked on reliable network design. He is currently working as a post-doc in public health domain.
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Dr. Rui Guo obtained her bachelor degree in transportation engineering at Southeast University (Nanjing, China) in 2008. She then worked at Southeast University as the research assistant on safety assessment of bridge structure and highway roads. Rui joined Dr. Yu Zhang's research group in August, 2010 and got her master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF in 2011. She then worked as the intern in Albeck Gerken, Inc., on Synchro modeling and data analysis in traffic signal retiming projects and is now pursuing her PhD degree at USF. Her research interests focus on Sustainable Traffic Signal Optimization, Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), Infrastructure Safety Assessment, Data Mining and Computer Programming and Simulation. Rui is graduated with a Ph.D. degree in May 2015 and is now working at USF Center for Urban Transportation Research.
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Dr. Nikhil Menon is currently a doctoral student in the Civil & Environmental Engineering department at USF. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (India) and a master’s degree in Transportation Systems from the MIT Portugal Program (Tecnico Lisboa). He has also worked as a Transport Planner at the Centre For infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation & Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Bangalore (India) for a period of 4 months, before joining USF in Fall ‘13. Menon is currently working as a graduate research assistant under Dr. Yu Zhang and Dr. Abdul Pinjari researching on self-driving cars and travel behavior. He is also working as a Writing Consultant at the USF Writing Studio, Nikhil serves as the President of the USF Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE), Student Chapter.
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Dr. Aritra Pal got his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from BESU, Shibpur ( India ) in 2011. He then worked as an assistant manager in Coal India Limited for 2 years. Since Fall, 2013, Aritra is pursuing his Ph.D.
degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at USF. He is co-advised by Dr. Zhang and Dr. Kwon and is currently working on Bike Sharing Systems. His research interests are developing approximation algorithms for solving routing and network design problems.
degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at USF. He is co-advised by Dr. Zhang and Dr. Kwon and is currently working on Bike Sharing Systems. His research interests are developing approximation algorithms for solving routing and network design problems.