International Speaker Prof Terry Liu from Southwest, University China
Workshop on Mathematics in Transportation
Designing and operating efficient transportation networks is one of the most urgent practical challenges facing societies in the twenty-first century, so ACEMS AI Joyce Zhang brought together international and local researchers from multiple academic disciplines including mathematics, engineering, and computer science, to discuss recent developments in the application of mathematics to addressing transportation challenges.
Left to right, Terry Liu, Joyce Zhang, Peter Taylor and Hai Vu
The workshop featured local speakers, including Joyce from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and A/Prof Russell Thompson from Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne, and Professor Hai Vu from Civil Engineering at Monash University, as well as international guest speaker Terry Liu from Southeast University, China. Topics covered include traffic flow theory and simulation, optimisation and control, intelligent transport systems, logistics, and transport planning.
The workshop attracted more than 35 attendees not only from academia, but also from industry such as ARRB and AECOM. There was strong participation from both postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Prof Zhiyuan (Terry) Liu
Prof Liu currently a Professor in the School of Transportation at Southeast University, Nanjing China. He is the awardee of the 1000 Talent Program (Youth Program) and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Talent Program of Jiangsu Province. He received his PhD degree from National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2012 to 2015, he was a lecturer in Monash University Australia. His research interests include Transportation Network Modelling, Transportation Data Analysis, Public Transport, Intelligent Transport Systems. In these areas, he has published more than sixty SCI/SSCI papers. He is an associate editor of IET Intelligent Transport System and also serves the editorial board of two international journals, International Journal of Transportation; Journal of Transport and Land Use. In 2015, as the team leader, he has established the Southeast University Transport Big Data and Distributed Computing Platform.
A/Prof Russel Thompson
A/Prof Thompson is an Associate Professor in Transport Engineering in the School of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne in Australia. His research areas are urban freight, resilient transport systems and intelligent transport systems. He has over 15 years of experience in urban freight research. He is currently involved in a number of projects involving autonomous freight vehicles. A/Prof Thompson leads the Transport research program in the Centre of Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS) and coordinates projects relating to the disruption and recovery of traffic networks, traffic guidance systems and humanitarian logistics.
Prof Hai Vu
Prof Hai Vu is a Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the area of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). He recently joined Monash University to lead the ITS research. Prior to that, he spent 5 years at the University of Melbourne and 11 years at Swinburne University of Technology where he has had established and led the Intelligent Transport Systems Lab in a joint partnership with VicRoads and over 16 years rich experience as an academic and researcher.
Dr Joyce Zhang
Dr Zhang received his PhD in School of Mechanic Engineering from the University of Melbourne, and is now a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Her research is inherently multidisciplinary, and focuses on applying objects from mathematical physics and applied mathematics, particularly cellular automata, to transport. Her research interests also include traffic flow theory, agent-based simulations of multimodal traffic networks, transit vehicle scheduling and urban freight research.