Directors

Hai Yang Biography

Prof. Hai Yang is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Bachelor degree from Wuhan University, China, and PhD from Kyoto University, Japan. Prof. Yang specializes in analysis, modeling and optimization of transportation systems and transportation economics. He is internationally known as an active scholar in the field of transportation, with more than 210 papers published in SCI/SSCI indexed journals and an H-index citation rate of 43. Most of his publications appeared in leading international journals, such as Transportation Research, Transportation Science and Operations Research. In recognition of his outstanding research, Prof. Yang has received a number of national and international awards, including JSCE Outstanding Paper Award (1991), Distinguished Overseas Young Investigator Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2004), National Natural Science Award bestowed by the State Council of PR China (2011), HKUST School of Engineering Research Excellence Awards (2012). Prof. Yang was conferred Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of PR China and Chair Professor of Tsinghua University. He is an elected permanent member of the International Advisory Committee of the prestigious International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT). Prof. Yang served as editors/guest editors or editorial advisory board members for a number of international journals. He is now the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, a top journal in the field of transportation.

Jieping Ye Biography

Prof. Jieping Ye received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2005. He is an associate professor of Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a vice president of Didi Chuxing and the director of Didi Research Institute. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, biomedical informatics, and urban computing. He was a senior program committee/area chair/program committee vice chair of many conferences including NIPS, KDD, IJCAI, ICDM, SDM, ACML, and PAKDD. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He received the SCI Young Investigator of the Year Award at ASU in 2007, the SCI Researcher of the Year Award at ASU in 2009, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2010. His papers have been selected for the outstanding student paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning in 2004, the KDD best research paper honorable mention in 2010, the KDD best research paper nomination in 2011 and 2012, the SDM best research paper runner up in 2013, and the KDD best research paper runner up in 2013.