Speakers

Prof. Jianjun Wu

Dalian University of Technology 

As a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Dalian University of Technology, Wu’s research spans the complexities of transportation networks and the flow characteristics of rail transit systems. He has presided over over a dozen research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Special Projects of the Ministry of Education, and Autonomous Research Topics of National Key Laboratories. Additionally, he has been a key researcher in more than ten projects, such as the Ministry of Science and Technology's "973" Program, Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality. His scholarly contributions include over 60 published research articles, with more than 40 indexed in SCI. Recognized for his outstanding work, he was awarded the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation in 2010 and was selected as an Outstanding Talent of the New Century Program by the Ministry of Education in 2012. He has also been invited to serve as a reviewer for numerous prestigious international and domestic journals. 

Prof. Shaopeng Zhong

Dalian University of Technology

Dr. Shaopeng Zhong is a professor in School of Transportation and Logistics at Dalian University of Technology and the Deputy Director of the Traffic Engineering Laboratory. In 2005, he received his bachelor's degree in transportation engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. In 2010, he obtained his doctorate from Southeast University, China. He is a visiting scholar in urban and regional planning at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008-2010). He is a guest professor at Technical University of Denmark (2017-2018).

He has more than 20 years of professional experience in the fields of sustainable urban planning and transportation planning, land use and transportation integration modeling, urban transportation network analysis, transportation network reliability, road congestion pricing, logic-driven transport big data analysis, and shared autonomous mobility. He has written and published three books and more than thirty scientific papers in the top journals in the field of transportation planning, such as Transportation Research Part A, Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Transport Geography, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Journal of Transportation Engineering-ASCE, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, and Journal of Transport and Land Use.