Personal Profile

Basic information

Name:

Tingting Zhao

Administrative Post:

Associate Department Chair

Technical Post:

Associate Professor

Degree:

Ph.D.

Mailing Address:

Beijing Jiaotong University, Shangyuancun #3, Haidian District, Beijing

Postcode:

100044

Office Phone:

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Email:

ttzhao@bjtu.edu.cn

Education

Ph.D., M.Eng., Control Science and Engineering, Institute of System Engineering, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China                         2006–2012

B.Eng., Automation, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hefei University of Technology, China                                                                  2002–2006


Professional Experience


June 2023–Present                      Beijing Jiaotong University, School of Systems Science                                                   Associate Professor

January 2023–June 2023            Beijing Jiaotong University, School of Traffic and Transportation                                  Associate Professor

April 2021–December 2022       Beijing Jiaotong University,  School of Traffic and Transportation                                 Assistant Professor      

November 2019–April 2021       University of Maryland, College Park                                                                                 Assistant Research Scientist            

November 2019–April 2021       National Institute of Standards and Technology                                                              Visiting Research Associate    

March 2017– November 2019   University of South Florida, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering     Postdoctoral Research Scholar

July 2012–March 2017                China Mobile Research Institute                                                                                           Research Scholar

February 2011–August 2011     Northwestern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering          Visiting Research Scholar

February 2006–July 2012           Tsinghua University, Department of Automation, Institute of System Engineering     Research Assistant                                                                  




Research Field

Transportation System Resilience Analysis and Optimization

Community Resilience

Traffic Flow Data Mining

Intelligent Transportation Systems Design and Evaluation

Electric Vehicles System Design

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Traffic Oscillation Detection, Travel Time Reliability


Projects

Transportation system resilience analysis and optimization

1Prevent Countermeasures' Resource Allocation Optimization for Road Transportation System in Resilience Context based on Network Embedding 

  Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China300,000 RMB, Jan. 2023–Dec. 2025, Role: PI

2Safety Operation and Resilience Recovery of Urban Transportation System under Extreme Disasters 

  Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2,000,000 RMB, Jan. 2023–Dec. 2026, RoleKey personnel

3Integrative Decision-making Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures

  Funded by: National Science Foundation, US, $1,963,542, March 2017–Nov. 2019, Role: Key personnel

4Capacity-flow Feature-based Restoration Strategy Optimization for Resilient Transportation Systems to Enhance Mobility, Accessibility, and Equity after Disruptive Events

  Funded by: UTC CTEDD Seed Grant, awarded $26,910 in May. 2019, Role: PI 

Electric bus charging facility location optimization and Connected Vehicles

5Multi-stage Electrification Planning for bus Systems with Multi-format Charging Facilities

  Funded by: TRB Transit IDEA Grant, awarded $100,000 in Aug. 2019, Role: Co-PI

 6Key Technologies for Connected Vehicle System

  Funded by: China Mobile Research Institute, awarded 6000,000 RMB, July 2013–March 2017, Role: Co-PI

Data mining for transportation systems

 7Toward More Reliable Mobility: Improved Decision Support Tools for Transportation Systems

  Funded by: National Science Foundation, US $536,483, Sep. 2009–Aug. 2012

Feature Extraction and Complexity Analysis for Transportation System

8Feature Extraction and Complexity Analysis for Transportation System

  Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Sep. 2008–Dec. 2010, Role: Key personnel

Micro-displacement Detection Using Fiber Sensors

  Funded by: 9National Natural Science Foundation of China, Sep. 2006–Aug. 2008

Teaching Courses

Paper

[1] Mingxue Guo, Tingting Zhao*, Ziyou Gao. Pre-disaster resource allocation based on network topology and flow features. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2024, online. (SCI, IF: 3.3.)

[2] Mingxue Guo, Tingting Zhao*, Ziyou Gao. Review of optimization methodologies for road transportation network protection and restoration to enhance system resilience. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, 2024, 5.

[3] Tingting Zhao, Yu Zhang. Learning-based restoration sequence ordering for multi-site traffic signal failure, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2022, 135: 103522. (SCI, IF: 7.29.)

[4] Tingting Zhao, Yu Zhang. Transportation infrastructure restoration optimization considering mobility and accessibility in resilience measures, Transportation Research Part CEmerging Technologies, 2020, 117: 102700. (SCI, IF: 7.29.)

[5] Shima Mohebbi, Qiong Zhang, Christian Wells, Tingting Zhao, Hung Nguyen, Mingyang Li, Noha Abdel-Mottaleb, Shihab Uddin, Qing Lu, Mathews Wakhungu, Zhiqiang Wu, Yu Zhang, Anwesh Tuladhar, Xinming Ou. Cyber-Physical-Social interdependencies and organizational resilience: a review of water, transportation, and cyber infrastructure systems and processes, Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020, 102327. (SCI, IF: 4.624.)

[6] Tingting Zhao, Yu (Marco) Nie, Yi Zhang. Extended spectral envelope method for detecting and analyzing traffic oscillations. Transportation Research Part B, 2014, 61: 1-16. (SCI, IF: 4.574)

[7] Tingting Zhao, Zhi-heng Li, Bing-yan Huang, Bei-peng Mu, Yi Zhang. Exploring the influence of traveller information on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2014, 8(1). (SCI, IF: 2.95)

[8] Tingting Zhao, Yi Zhang, Bingyan Huang. Random Matrix Theory-based urban traffic cross-correlation analysis and its application on traffic incident impact analysis. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2012, 17(1): 104-112. (SCI, IF: 2.328)

[9] Tingting Zhao, Yi Zhang, Li Li, Yu Zhou, and Shumin Feng. Analysis and investigation of the spatial cross correlations of traffic flows on urban road network. Journal of Tsinghua University, 2011, 51(3): 313-317. (In Chinese)

[10] Yong Zhao, Xinyuan Zhang, Tingting Zhao, et al. Optical salinity sensor system based on fiber optic array. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2009, 9(9): 1148-1153.           

[11] Tingting Zhao, Yong Zhao, Yi Zhang. Two-dimensional micro-angular displacement measurement based on fiber arrays. Guangxue Xuebao (Acta Optica Sinica), 2009, 29(4): 874-878. (In Chinese)

[12] Tingting Zhao, Yu (Marco) Nie, Xing Wu, Yi Zhang. Empirical analysis of the dependence structure in traffic data using Copula function, Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Qingdao, China, 2014: 38-42

[13] Tingting Zhao, Zhiheng Li, Yi Zhang, et al. Exploring the influence of real-time traveler information on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams. 11th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (ICCTP), Nanjing, China, 2011:170. (Best paper award)

[14] Tingting Zhao, Li Li, Jianming Hu, et al. Detection of urban traffic flow's synchronized oscillations using Spectral Envelope. 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '09), St. Louis, MO, 2009: 84-89.

[15] Tingting Zhao, Xuexiang Jin, Yan Ji, Yi Zhang, et al. The Laplacian Spectra Analysis of several cities’ transit network in China. China National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), 2009: 904-909. (In Chinese)

[16] Bingyan Huang, Tingting Zhao, Yi Zhang. Traffic incident impact analysis with Random Matrix Theory and cluster analysis. IEEE International Conference on Emergency Management and Management Sciences (ICEMMS), 2010, Beijing, China. (The first author is an undergraduate student under my supervision)

[17] Beipeng Mu, Jianming Hu, Tingting Zhao, et al. Evaluating the performance of link travel time estimation based on floating car data. 2010 International Conference on Optoelectronics and Image Processing, Changsha, China, 2010. (The first author is an undergraduate student under my supervision)


Monograph

Patent

 Tingting Zhao, Yu Zhang. A System and Method for Infrastructure Restoration Plan Optimization,2022 (US Patent).


Awards and honors

Social Appointments

Reviewer

•       IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

•       Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

•       Natural Hazards

•       Journal of Advanced Transportation

•       TRB – ABR20 - Standing Committee on the Logistics of Disaster Response and Business Continuity, ABR30 - Standing Committee on Emergency Evacuations, AHB25 - Standing Committee on Traffic Signal Systems

•       IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Professional Memberships

•       ASCE T&DI Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Committee Member

•       American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) -- Infrastructure Resilience Division Emerging

Technologies Committee Member

•       Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

•       Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

•       Transportation Research Board (TRB)

•       American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) -- Infrastructure Resilience Division Emerging Technologies Committee Member

•       Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS)

Invited Session Chair

•       INFORMS Annual Conference – session on Data Science and Machine Learning for Critical Infrastructures (Transportation, Cyber, Power, etc.)

•       IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems