Special Session 3: Low-Altitude Economy and Urban Sustainable Development

Chair:

Prof. Yang Xin

Beijing Jiaotong University

Biography: Dr. XinYang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Systems Science, Beijing Jiaotong University. He also serves as Secretary-General of the Transportation Management Branch of the Management Science and Engineering Society of China, a standing committee member of the Emergency Management Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Systems Engineering, and a committee member of the Logistics Systems Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Systems Engineering. He has been selected for the National High-Level Young Talent Program, the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program of the China Association for Science and Technology, and the Outstanding Young Talent program of the Beijing Rail Transit Society.

His research mainly focuses on complex system resilience, transportation operations optimization, and transportation big data analysis. In recent years, he has led more than 10 projects, including key, general, and youth projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including an excellent youth project), tasks under the National Key R&D Program, and projects supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation. As a core member, he has participated in more than 20 projects, including the Outstanding Research Group Project and Major Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as major projects of China State Railway Group.

He has published more than 50 academic papers in leading international journals such as Nature Communications and Transportation Science, as well as Transportation Research Part A/B/C/D/E. Among them, 8 papers have been listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers or Hot Papers, 1 paper has been included in the major scientific and technological innovation achievements database for transportation, and 1 paper has been selected as one of the 17th Beijing Outstanding Young Scientific Papers.

His research has been cited and recognized by well-known scholars from more than 30 countries and regions, including MIT, UC Berkeley, Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, Tsinghua University, Peking University, National University of Singapore, and Delft University of Technology. Some of his achievements have been included in the book series 10000 Scientific Problems (Transportation Volume). He has been granted more than 30 national invention patents and registered more than 20 software copyrights. His research achievements have received the First Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education (2019) and the First Prize of Engineering Technology of the Ministry of Education (2025), among other honors.