Dr. Jinzhu Yu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering (Primary), Department of Computer Science and Engineering (by courtesy), and Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Before joining UTA, he was a Postdoc Scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Network Science and Technology Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He got his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies of Systems Engineering at Vanderbilt University. His research seeks to enable resilient, sustainable, and smart urban systems in uncertain and dynamic settings by developing and applying models and algorithms in network science, operations research, and machine learning. His research interests include the resilience and risk analysis of infrastructure systems, disaster management, transportation and supply network modeling and analysis, stochastic modeling and optimization, as well as urban mobility.

Yiyi Zhang, PhD student (2024 Fall - present)

Yiyi Zhang earned her M.S. in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University. Her research interests include uncertainty quantification, data analysis and machine learning, and risk, resilience, and reliability analysis. Currently, she is focused on developing innovative physics-based and data-driven models to evaluate and optimize the resilience of water and transportation infrastructure networks in the face of nonstationary climate change impacts. In her leisure time, Yiyi enjoys playing badminton and skiing.

Amirhosein Shahlaee, PhD student (2024 Summer- present)

Amir earned his B.S. from Sharif University of Technology and M.S. from the University of Maine, both in Civil Engineering. Before joining UTA, he worked as a Data Scientist in Transpo Group. His research focuses on artificial intelligence in smart infrastructure systems, transportation network modeling, and resilience analysis. He is a big fan of hiking.

Sohaib Dastgoshade , Graduate Research  Intern (2024 Spring - present)

Sohaib earned his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Kurdistan and his Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in optimization at Yazd University in Iran. His research focuses on the intersection of operations research, transportation systems, supply chain networks, as well as resilience and equity. He is fond of watching movies and gaming in his free time.

Ram Prasad Reddy Gajjala, Graduate Research  Assistant (2024 Spring - 2025 Spring)

Ram is currently pursuing a MS in CS at UTA. He is broadly interested in Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Mobile Application Development. His expertise lies within Mobile Applications and the main languages in his tech stack are: Java, Kotlin, Flutter Dart and swift. His research focuses on developing novel machine learning models for road safety hotspot identification and deep generative models for simulating realistic attributed graphs.

Dhaval Kawa, Graduate Research  Assistant (2024 Spring)

Dhaval Kawa is a M.S. student in Industrial Engineering at UTA. His academic interests encompass optimization, data analysis, supply chain management, and manufacturing. Dhaval's current research focuses on optimizing urban air mobility networks using integer programming. Outside his studies, Dhaval has a keen interest in automotive and aviation technologies. He is also an enthusiastic follower of Formula 1 racing and E-sports.

Yash Modi, Graduate Research  Assistant (2023 Fall - 2024 Spring)

Yash is currently pursuing a MS in CS at UTA. His research interests revolve around deep learning technologies, including transformers, generative networks, convolutional neural networks, graph neural networks, and their applications in computer vision and network analysis, etc. His hobbies include music, tech reading, and gaming.

Sheetal Pandhare, Graduate Research  Assistant (2024 Spring)

Sheetal is currently pursuing a MS in Transportation Engineering. She is passionate about transportation planning, demand forecasting, traffic flow modeling, and simulation analysis, to contribute to more efficient, sustainable, and equitable urban mobility. Alongside her academic pursuits, Sheetal finds joy in photography, music, historical research, and culinary exploration.

Hari Lalichetti, Graduate Research  Assistant (2023 Fall)

Hari is currently pursuing a MS in Electrical Engineering at UTA. His academic pursuits are centered around networked control systems and embedded control systems. His current project is focusing on the optimal distributed control of interconnected networks. He also has research experience in the realm of Embedded and IoT design, specifically in sensors and edge computer integration via communication protocols.