In 2012, Yongqiu Zhu received a Bachelor degree in Traffic Transportation from Southwest Jiaotong University (China). Later in 2015, she received a Master degree in Traffic Transportation Planning & Management from the same university. After a few months of visiting research at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Yongqiu started her PhD study in 2016 at the Department of Transport and Planning at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). In December 2019, she defended her PhD thesis of "Passenger-Oriented Timetable Rescheduling in Railway Disruption Management ", which is under the supervision of Prof. dr. Rob M.P. Goverde.
After PhD, Yongqiu became a postdoc researcher in TU Delft and Technical University of Denmark, respectively. During these positions, she explored new research directions on resilient railways towards extreme weather, reinforcement learning in railway traffic management, and multi-modal transportation. Recently, she got the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will support her to further explore the potentials of AI techniques in passenger-oriented traffic management and smart information provisions under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Corman.
Last update: 09-04-2021