Invited Speakers

Prof. Yiping Le

Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Dr. Yiping LE graduated from Tsinghua University with a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo. She is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan. She has served as a research fellow at the University of Tokyo, a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and Tsinghua University, and an Assistant Professor at Toyo University, Japan. She has been awarded several JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research projects in Japan. Her research interests include transportation and tourism behavior analysis, transportation infrastructure planning, and transit-oriented urban development. She has also served as an International Committee Member of the Planning Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of the Japan Society for Tourism Informatics, and an Expert Committee Member of the Kanto Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.