Jinkai

PhD Candidate

Email: jz1476@nyu.edu

Short Bio

Jinkai Zhou is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He received his joint Bachelor and Master Degree (2013) in Industrial Engineering from University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida, US). He is currently a PhD candidate in Transportation Engineering at New York University. His main research interests include using Operation Research and Machine Learning to solve transportation routing problems.

Education

  • Sep. 2013 – Current, Ph.D. student, Transportation Engineering, New York University
  • Sep. 2008 – Jan. 2013, B.S. and M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Miami.

Research and Working Interests

  • Optimizing route choice of autonomous vehicle (AV) fleets.
  • Applying sensor data collection when routing AV fleets.
  • Simulating AV fleets behavior under partial observable situations.
  • Using techniques of Machine Learning to predict transportation data.
  • Other interested topics: Simulation in Python(i.e. SimPy)