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› [250425] Invited talk at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Generative AI for Transportation Operations" at the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, NC A&T University. I would like to thank Prof. Venktesh Pandey for the invitation.

› [250424] Invited talk at North Carolina State University

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Generative AI for Transportation Operations" at the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, NC State University. I would like to thank Prof. Ali Hajbabaie and Prof. Danjue Chen for the invitation.

› [250420] New survey paper on Deep Generative Models in Transportation Research published in Transportation Research Part C

I'm thrilled to share that our latest publication, '𝐀 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡', has just been published in Transportation Research Part C.

› [250307] New publication in Transportation Science

I am pleased to share that my paper, "Probabilistic Traffic Forecasting with Dynamic Regression," has been accepted to Transportation Science!

› [250225] New publication in Transportation Science

I'm thrilled to share that our paper, 'Scalable Dynamic Mixture Model with Full Covariance for Probabilistic Traffic Forecasting,' has been accepted for publication in Transportation Science!

› [250107] Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2025 presentation

I will be presenting "Weaver: A Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Model Architecture Based on the Mixed Kronecker Matrix-Vector Identity" at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRBAM 2025)

› [240903] TRC-30 Conference presentations

I will be presenting two papers at TRC-30: (1) Evaluating UAM Route Feasibility in Terminal Airspace via Probabilistic Aircraft Trajectory Prediction, and (2) Multi-level Traffic Simulation with Dynamic Simulation Level Assignment for Urban Network

› [240901] Lindong Liu and Pouya Parsa joined the group

Lindong Liu and Pouya Parsa joined the group.

› [240621] Invited Talk at The 2nd Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility Summer Camp

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Deep Generative Models for Transportation and Mobility Data" at The 2nd Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility Summer Camp.

› [240618] Invited Talk at Seoul National University

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Deep Generative Models for Transportation and Mobility Data" at the Graduate School of Environment Studies, Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea). I would like to thank Prof. Justin S. Chang and Prof. Sangjin Han for the invitation.

› [240501] Presentation at AISTATS 2024

I had a great time at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2024)! I presented a paper from my postdoc works titled “Better Batch for Deep Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting” along with Vincent Zheng and Professor Lijun Sun.

› [240223] Warren Distinguished Lecture Series

It was such a privilege to speak at the Warren Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the CEGE department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

› [240106] List of my papers at TRB Annual Meeting 2024

I am presenting 4 papers at TRBAM24. Feel free to stop by and discuss any of the topics!

› [231101] Invited Talk at KAIST (tutorial on Deep Generative Models)

It was such a pleasure to give a seminar talk on "Introduction to Deep Generative Models" at AIxMobility Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Virtual). I would like to thank Prof. Hwasoo Yeo for the invitation.

› [230802] Invited Talk at Western University

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Deep Generative Models for Mobility Trajectory Data" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University (London, Ontario, Canada). I would like to thank Prof. Mohamed Zaki for the invitation.

› [230704] New publication in Transportation Research Part E

My new paper titled "Optimal planning of parking infrastructure and fleet size for Shared Autonomous Vehicles" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

› [230607] Join our team! Open PhD positions for Spring/Fall 2024

I am looking for 1-2 highly motivated Ph.D. students for Spring/Fall 2024 semesters (starting in January/September). The positions are in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I encourage those with a passion for applying machine learning and deep learning to urban transportation and mobility data and utilizing advanced AI methods to solve transportation and mobility problems, to apply.

› [230531] Invited Talk at Korea Advanced Institue of Science and Technology

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Learning the Distribution of Traffic and Mobility Data" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institue of Science and Technology. I would like to thank Prof. Hwasoo Yeo for the invitation.

› [230523] Invited Talk at Seoul National University

It was such a pleasure to present my works on "Learning the Distribution of Traffic and Mobility Data" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University. I would like to thank Prof. Dongkyu Kim for the invitation.

› [230419] I accepted the offer from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities!

I am absolutely thrilled to share that I have accepted the offer to join the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as an Assistant Professor, starting in January 2024!