Yanyan Xu

Biography

I am a postdoctoral associate in Human Mobility and Networks (HuMNet) Lab at the Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, supervised by Prof. Marta C. Gonzalez. Before comming to Berkeley, I was a postdoctoral associate at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT from Sep. 2015 to Oct. 2018 in Marta’s group, a guest postdoctoral fellow in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from Dec. 2017 to Oct. 2018. I got the Ph.D. in Department of Automation supervised by Prof. Yuncai Liu at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015 and hold M.S. and B.S degrees in Shandong University.

My research is on human mobility and urban computing, with particular emphasis placed on the use of massive trajectory data in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart City from interdisciplinary perspective.