About Shuoyan Xu

Shuoyan Xu received the B.E.degree in transportation engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2014. In 2018, he began his graduate studies as a Master of Science in transportation engineering in the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Tae J. Kwon and completed it in April 2021.

Master of Science Degree:

• Date of Defence: April 21, 2021

• Thesis topic: Optimizing Snowplow Routes: Formulation & Implementation

His current research interest is snow plow routing optimization and is currently a research assistant with Dr. Kwon. He is currently working on his Ph.D program at the University of Toronto in September 2021. 

Research Interests

• Winter Maintenance Optimization

• Artificial Intelligence Application in Transportation

• Traffic safety

Academic Events

• Attended the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 99th Annual Meeting from the 13th to 17th of January 2020, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center,  in Washington, D.C. and presented a poster on my research.