University of Minnesota, USA

Speech Title: How does machine learning enhance urban planning for sustainable transportation?

Dr. Xinyu Cao is a professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and a visiting scholar of Chang’an University.  He specializes in land use and transportation interaction and planning for quality of life.  He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and edited four books.  Dr. Cao is internationally well-known for his research on residential self-selection in the relationships between the built environment and travel behavior.  He is currently leading the area of machine learning applications in land use and transportation research.  Dr. Cao is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part D and an associate editor of Transport Policy and Journal of Planning Education and Research.  Dr. Cao received his degrees from the University of California, Davis and Tsinghua University.

University of Plymouth, UK

Long-yuan Li is Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Marine Science and Engineering at theUniversity of Plymouth. His research interests cover the fields of structures, concrete materials, andcomputational mechanics. Prof Li received his PhD in Shanghai University in 1987, and after then he didpostdoctoral research in Washington University (USA), Ruhr University (Germany) and University CollegeLondon (UK). He started his academic career at Aston University as a Lecturer in 1996, moved to University ofBirmingham in 2008. He was appointed as a Professor of Structural Engineering and the Director of ResearchCentre for Advanced Engineering Systems and Interactions by University of Plymouth in 2011. Prof Li is amember of editorial boards of journals including “Cement and Concrete Composites”, “Magazine of ConcreteResearch” and “Applied Mathematics and Mechanics”. He is a Fellow of the UK Institution of StructuralEngineers and a member of the UK Society for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, the UK ConcreteSociety, and the International Society for Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics.

University of Waterloo, Canada

Xianguo Li is a Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Professor Li's main research interests and activities are in the area of thermal fluid/science, including energy systems and energy storage, various energy conversion devices, propulsion and power generation systems, aerosol generation and applications, and transportation fuel cell and battery systems. These research projects involve thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, liquid atomization and sprays, combustion, power generation and propulsion systems.

Professor Li is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Energy, which established the International Green Energy Conference series and launched the annual review series Progress in Green Energy. He is also the Field Chief Editor, Frontiers in Thermal Engineering. He is currently serving on the editorial board of dozens of international scientific/technical journals, book series on fuel cells and energy systems, as well as an encyclopaedia on Energy Engineering and Technology.

Professor Li is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC) and a fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), and serves as VP Technical Program for CSME. Previously he served as the CSME Division Chair for the Advanced Energy Systems technical division. He also currently serves as the President of the International Association for Green Energy and President of the Fuel Cell Division, International Association for Hydrogen Energy and established the World Fuel Cell Conference series.