ICITE2025 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Xiaobo Qu | 曲小波教授
欧洲科学院院士(Member, Academia Europaea-The Academy of Europe)Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Transportation Research
Tsinghua University, China | 清华大学
Xiaobo Qu is a Changjiang Chair Professor with the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University since Dec 2021. His research is focused on intelligent transportation systems, ground-air cooperation and vertical transportation systems, and emerging transport mode informed mobility services. He has authored or co-authored over 180 journal articles published at top tier journals, including 14 ESI highly cited papers. To date, Prof Qu has secured research funding well above 30 million Euros from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology China, Australian Research Council, Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova, STINT, and European Union, Ministry of Education China, including one NSFC key project (3 million CNY), one MoST thematic project (120 million CNY = 40 million public funding + 80 million matchup, as the PI), Australian Research Council Discovery Project, four major grants from Swedish Innovation Agency, two projects from EU, and a number of projects from research foundations. He has been invited to serve as a panel/assessor for prestigious funding scheme such as the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence (35 million AUD each), Future Fellowship (career grant, 1 million AUD each), Netherlands NWO VICI (career grant, 2.5 million Euros each), Hong Kong Research Council theme based scheme (30 million HKD each), Singapore Ministry of Education Thematic Research Program (5 million SD each), European Research Council, NSFC, Ministry of Education China etc. He is an elected Member of Academia Europaea–the Academy of Europe since Aug 2020, and an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences since Jan 2020. He was a faculty member at two Australian Universities from 2012-2017, joined Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, as a Professor in Feb 2018, promoted to Chair Professor rank in Feb 2020. From Dec 2021, Xiaobo is teaching at the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, China, at full time capacity, and will accept PhD students and postdocs from both China and overseas.
Prof. Hai Yang | 杨海教授
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China | 香港科技大学
Prof. Hai Yang is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Bachelor degree from Wuhan University, China, and PhD from Kyoto University, Japan. Prof. Yang specializes in analysis, modeling and optimization of transportation systems and transportation economics. He is internationally known as an active scholar in the field of transportation, with more than 300 papers published in SCI/SSCI indexed journals and an H-index citation rate of 70. Most of his publications appeared in leading international journals, such as Transportation Research, Transportation Science and Operations Research. In recognition of his outstanding research, Prof. Yang has received a number of national and international awards, including JSCE Outstanding Paper Award (1991); Distinguished Overseas Young Investigator Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2004); National Natural Science Award bestowed by the State Council of China (2011); HKUST School of Engineering Research Excellence Awards (2012); Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2020); and 2021 ASCE Francis C. Turner Award.
Prof. Yang was conferred Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (host university: Beihang University) and Guest Chair Professor of Tsinghua University and Beijing Jiaotong University. He is an elected permanent member of the International Advisory Committee of the prestigious International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT). Prof. Yang served as the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research (TR) Part B: Methodological from 2013 to 2018, a prestigious journal in the field of transportation. Currently, Professor Yang serves on the Distinguished Editorial Board of TR Part B, Scientific Council of TR Part C: Emerging Technologies, and serves as an Advisory Editor of Transportation Science.