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New members in our group: welcome Atefeh, Victor, Antoine…

Atefeh Hemmati Golsefidi recently joined our group as a PhD student within the BOON project (Behavior Oracle for always-ON electrical mobility) where she will focus on applying machine learning and operation research methods to predict optimal locations for electric vehicle charging stations.
Victor Flensburg works for Banedanmark and he recently started an industrial PhD where he will be working on the SORTEDMOBILITY project (Self-Organized Rail Traffic for the Evolution of Decentralized MOBILITY) to predict real-time demand for self-organizing railway operations.
Antoine Dubois is a new PhD student in our group and he will be working on the eMOTIONAL Cities project. Before joining us, he graduated from Aix-Marseille University with an MSc in data science and from Paris Panthéon Sorbonne with an MSc in quantitative economics.
Georges Sfeir recently joined our group as a Postdoc within the SORTEDMOBILITY project where he will be using activity-based and machine learning approaches to estimate detailed daily activity and travel patterns for large urban populations.

We wish them a productive and fun time during their stay with us! 😊

New members in our group: welcome Zhongcan, Xu, and…

Li Zhongcan (Southwest Jiaotong University), Xu Yan (Southwest Jiaotong University), and Mingzhuang Hua (Southeast University) joined our team as visiting PhD students.
Li Zhongcan works on high-speed railway network delay propagation. His interests include the technologies in the NLP and graph neural network fields.
Xu Yan focuses on applying machine learning and optimization methods for passenger flow analytics in urban rail transit networks.
Mingzhuang Hua’s research focuses on the demand prediction and resource allocation of shared mobility.

We wish them a productive and fun time during their stay with us! 😊

New Ph.D. graduation in our group: congrats Francisco!

On September 15th, 2021, Francisco Antunes successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Active Learning Metamodels for Transport Simulation Problems.”

Congratulations, Francisco!

New Ph.D. graduation in our group: congrats Vishnu!

On June 8th, 2021, Vishnu Baburajan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Automated Text Analysis on Open-Ended Response Surveys: Measuring Attitudes Regarding Autonomous Vehicles.”

Congratulations, Vishnu!

BOON Officially Kicked Off

On June 3rd, 2021, we officially kicked off project BOON: Behaviour Oracle for always-On electric mobility.

New Ph.D. graduation in our group: congrats Niklas!

On April 29th, 2021, Niklas Petersen successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Multi-model bus arrival prediction with intelligent handling of uncertainties.“

Congratulations, Niklas!

New Ph.D. graduation in our group: congrats Inon!

On April 20th, 2021, Inon Peled successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Machine Learning Methods for Transportation under Uncertainty.“

Congratulations, Inon!

New member in our group: welcome Frederik!

Frederik Boe Hüttel joined our group last March 1st, 2021, as a Ph.D. student within the project BOON (Behavior Oracle for always-ON electrical mobility), where he will focus on applying Active Learning, Causality, and Censored modeling methods to predict EV charging demand through space and time with uncertainty.

We wish him a productive and fun time during his stay with us! 🙂

MLSM Group at TRB2021: 4 papers

100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB 2021), originally programmed to be held in Washington, D.C., was this year conducted as a virtual event throughout January 2021. Our group contributed with four interesting papers. Check out below for more details.

edX course (2nd Ed.): Leveraging Urban Mobility Disruptions to…

We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of the course on the MOOC platform edX called Leveraging Urban Mobility Disruptions to Create Better Cities, starting on 19 Jan 2021, featuring the members of our group prof. Francisco Pereira and prof. Carlos Lima Azevedo! It is offered in collaboration with MIT and other international partners. Read below more about the course and visit the official course page for detailed information and registration! We hope to see you there! 🙂