Congratulations to Linxuan for passing the DQE and advancing to candidacy for his doctoral degree!
Category: Lab News
2022.04: Dr. Xu interviewed by the GW Hatchet
Dr. Xu was interviewed by Tyler Krambeer, an undergraduate news reporter with GW Hatchet, to comment on a car crash hot spot on Virginia Avenue at Foggy Bottom. The coverage can be found here!
2022.01: Dr. Xu chaired sessions and presented his research at TRBAM 2022
At the 2022 TRB Annual Meeting, Dr. Xu, together with three other young colleagues, served as the Organizing Chair of the Young Members Coordinating Council (YMCC) Workshop. The workshop, titled “Early Academic Successful Careers: Resources and Advice”, includes three sequential panels that collectively offer tips on successful publications from journal editors in the field of transportation, advice for writing research proposals from program managers, mentoring and networking in academia, and survival guides for junior faculty. Dr. Xu moderated the panel on Early Career Faculty Perspectives.
Besides, Dr. Xu presented his research “A generalized fluid model of ride-hailing systems” at the conference. The paper has been published on Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. [URL]
2021.10: The SUM Lab’s presence at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA
Dr. Xu gave a plenary talk on his dissertation, “On the Empty Miles of Ride-Sourcing Services: Theory, Observation and Countermeasures” for winning the TSL Dissertation Award.
Dr. Xu chaired an inviting session, titled “Emerging Topics in Food and Grocery Delivery Services”. In this session, Linxuan, a current Ph.D. student at the SUM lab, made an oral presentation on his paper, “Dine in or take out? Trends on restaurant service demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic” [URL].
Besides, Dr. Xu presented his research “A generalized fluid model of ride-hailing systems” at the conference. The paper has been published on Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. [URL]
2021.10: Dr. Xu won the TSL Dissertation Prize from INFORMS
2021.10: Dr. Xu won the TSL Dissertation Prize awarded by the Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). His dissertation, On the Empty Miles of Ride-Sourcing Services: Theory, Observation and Countermeasures, was completed at the University of Michigan in 2020, advised by Professor Yafeng Yin.
The TSL Dissertation Prize is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area.
2021.08: Dr. Xu receives the HKSTS Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. Xu’s dissertation work completed at the University of Michigan (advised by Professor Yafeng Yin), On the Empty Miles of Ride-Sourcing Services: Theory, Observation and Countermeasures, won the HKSTS Outstanding Dissertation Award cum Gordon Newell Memorial Prize 2021.
The Gordon Newell Memorial Prize is dedicated to the late Professor Gordon Newell of the University of California at Berkeley in recognition of his significant contributions to scientific research and education in traffic and transportation theories. This award was established by the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) in 2005 to promote transportation research and education.
2021.06: Dr. Xu chairs sessions at ISTDM 2021
As an organizing committee member of ISTDM 2021, Dr. Xu chairs the Emerging Mobility and Behavior and Demand sessions and presents his research “Learning ride-sourcing drivers’ customer-searching behavior: A dynamic discrete choice approach” at the conference.
2021.03: Dr. Xu selected as the Professor of the Year
Dr. Xu is awarded the Civil Engineering Professor of the Year Award by GW Engineers’ Council. This award was voted on by GW SEAS students.
2021.01: Linxuan joined our group as a PhD student
Mr. Linxuan Shi has joined our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Linxuan!
2020.08: I will join CEE@GW as an assistant professor.
I will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the George Washington University beginning August 1, 2020. I will be part of the transportation engineering faculty group and contribute to the sustainable urban mobility research.