Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2013
M.Phil., Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
B.Sc., Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2005
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, 2022-Present
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, 2020-2022
Research Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2017-2020
Postdoc/Research Associate, Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas at Austin, 2014-2017
Research Interests
Mixed Autonomy Transportation Systems
Smart and Resilient Cities/Communities
Teaching
Transportation Engineering
(TBD) Data Science in Urban Systems
Publications
Jia Li, Di Chen, and Michael Zhang. Equilibrium modeling of mixed autonomy traffic flow based on game theory. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, in press.
Long Nguyen, Zhou Yang, Jia Li, Zhenhe Pan, Guofeng Cao, and Fang Jin. Forecasting people’s need in hurricane events from social network. IEEE Transaction on Big Data,8:229-240,2022.
Jia Li, Kenneth Perrine, Lidong Wu, and Michael Walton. Cross-validating traffic speed measurements from probe and stationary sensors through state reconstruction. International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology,8:290-303, 2019.
Zhen Qian, Jia Li, Xiaopeng Li, Michael Zhang, and Haizhong Wang. Modeling heterogeneous traffic flow: A pragmatic approach. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 99:183-204, 2017.
Jia Li, Michael Zhang. Bounding tandem queuing system performance with variational theory. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 81:848-862, 2015.
Jia Li, Michael Zhang. A generalized queuing model and its solution properties. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 79:79-92,2016.
Jia Li, Michael Zhang. Modeling space-time inhomogeneities with the kinematic wave theory. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 54:113-125,2013.
