About Me

I will be a Ph.D. supervisor and Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Planning, Tsinghua University (THU). I am now a Postdoc Associate at SMART Centre, MIT under the supervision of Prof. Zhao Jinhua. Before that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), supervised by Prof. Zhao Zhan. I was also a visiting PhD student at MIT Senseable City Lab, supervised by Prof. Carlo Ratti and Prof. Paolo Santi. I received my bachelor and master degrees from Tsinghua University.

I am currently seeking highly motivated PhD and master students for 2026. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact me via email, along with their resume and transcripts.

For students who have reached out, I truly appreciate your interest. Due to the large number of applications, only a limited number of shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next steps. I sincerely apologize for not being able to respond to everyone individually.

My research interest lies in the intersection of Articifial Intelligence, Human Mobility and Urban Planning:

• Spatiotemporal Intelligence for Human Mobility Modeling: Developing spatiotemporal deep learning algorithms to model and predict human mobility in complex transportation systems. My previous work includes multimodal travel demand prediction, simulating potential demand distributions in newly planned transport networks, and analyzing irregular mobility patterns during special events.
• Artificial Intelligence for Urban and Transport Planning: Applying advanced AI methods—such as generative AI and deep reinforcement learning—to inform and optimize urban and transport planning decisions. Recent projects include designing transit-oriented development strategies through reinforcement learning and enabling human-in-the-loop urban design through diffusion-based generative models.
• Big Data and Travel Behavior Analysis: Leveraging large-scale urban data alongside statistical and machine learning techniques to understand individual travel decisions and their relationship with the built environment, enabling data-driven planning and policy evaluation. Recent studies include analyzing post-pandemic travel behavior patterns and exploring activity planning heterogeneity across different social groups.

News

• [2025-04] I will be a research mentor at MIT-UF-NU 2025 Joint Summer Research Camp hosted by Prof. Zhao Jinhua at MIT, Prof. Wang Shenhao at University of Florida, and Prof. Haris Koutsopoulos at Northeastern University!
• [2025-03] Our paper “Architectural design and building-level infections during the early stage of COVID-19: A study of 2597 public housing buildings in Hong Kong” has been published in Building and Environment !