Zhengbing He

About

As a principal investigator, I have secured funding exceeding $1 million for national-level (key) projects.

I have published 180+ papers, including 50+ published exclusively in the prestigious journal series of Transportation Research (TR) and IEEE Transactions. I am proud that I have published papers across the entire TR family (A/B/C/D/E/F), 20+ TR C and 10+ IEEE TITS. And, a Correspondence in Nature.

Total citations: 8000+, i10-index: 110+, H-index: 40+. World’s Top 2% Scientists, ranking 67 out of 30,588 global researchers in Logistics & Transportation (23,536 in all fields).

I am an IEEE senior member, and serve as a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, a Deputy Editor-in-Chief for IET Intelligent Transport Systems, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, an Editorial Advisory Board member for Transportation Research Part C, etc.

My research lies at the intersection of urban mobility, systems engineering, and artificial intelligence, spanning from traditional topics such as traffic flow operations and control, sustainability, and resilience to emerging areas including data-driven modeling, autonomous driving, and large language models.

In particular, I am a pioneer and long-term contributor in AI-driven transportation modeling and AV-empowered traffic mitigation, and an early innovator in generative AI applications in transportation (see Scientific Contributions).

Projects

• Occam's Razor -- Simple Models for Traffic Dynamics
• AI-Driven Modeling -- Vehicle Dynamics
• Time-Space Traffic Diagram -- Construction, Refinement, and Applications
• Understanding Traffic Dynamics -- Microscopic Modeling
• Sensing: Mapping to Cells
• Traffic State Estimation
• Data Analysis
• Resolving Traffic Congestion -- Dispatching Dedicated Vehicles
• Resolving Traffic Congestion -- Connected Vehicles
• Autonomous Intersection
• Intelligent Vehicles
• AI + Motion Prediction
• Large Language Models
• Machine Learning and Prediction
• Transportation Resilience -- Dynamic Demand and Multi-Modal Networks
• Day-to-Day Route Choice
• Network Equilibrium
• Route Guidance
• Sustainability
• Public Transit
• Shared Mobility
• Policy
• Review and Perspectives

Services

• Editor-in-ChiefJournal of Transportation Engineering and Information (in Chinese)
• Deputy EiCIET Intelligent Transport Systems
• Senior EditorIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
• EAB memberTransportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
• Guest EditorTransportation Research Part A (2025) Human-machine Integrated Urban Traffic Management: Policy Innovation and Regulatory Tools Selection
• Guest EditorSpace Weather (2023) Impact of Space Weather Events on Transportation System
• Guest EditorIET Intelligent Transport Systems (2021) Modelling, Operation and Management of Traffic Mixed with Connected and Automated Vehicles
• Guest EditorTransportation Research Part D (2020) Shared Mobility and Environment
• Guest EditorTransportation Research Part C (2019) Emerging Methods for Data-driven Urban Transportation and Mobility Modeling
• Guest EditorTransportmetrica A (2018) Methodological Advancements in Understanding and Managing Urban Traffic Congestion
• Guest EditorJournal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (2018) Vehicle Sensor Data-based Transportation Research
• Committee ChairWorld Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), SIG C1 (Traffic Theory ...)
• Associate EditorIEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2018 to date: 21st (US), 22nd (New Zealand), 23rd (Greece), 24th (US), 25th (China), 26th (Spain), 27th (Canada), 28th (Australia), 29th (Italy)
• Associate EditorIEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Session Chair (China, 2018), 2024 to date: 36th (Korea), 37th (US)
• Associate EditorIEEE Access, Outstanding Award (top 5%), 2017.10-2019.10
• Associate EditorInternational Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, 2021.3-2024.3
• Award ChairIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering, 2020-2021
• Associate EditorForum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems, Delft, The Netherlands, 2020
• Area Editor19th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, 2019, Nanjing, China (Traffic Operations, Control and Management)

Experience

• 2026.2I was honored to receive an offer for a tenured Associate Professor position from a QS Top 50 overseas university, which is a strong recognition of my research. Standing at the crossroads in my life, I chose to return to China.
• 2023-2025Research Scientist / Senior Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 2024-2025Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
• 2018-2022Full Professor, Beijing University of Technology, China
• 2011-2017Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Research, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
• 2015(1/3y)Visiting Scholar, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2001-2006PhD Student, Tianjin University, China
• 2009(1y)Visiting PhD Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• 2006-2008Master's Student, Tianjin University, China
• 2001-2006Bachelor's Student, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China

with his beloved Charlotte