Principle Investigator
Huan Yu
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Email: huanyu@ust.hk
Assistant Professor, INTR Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2019
Advisor: Professor Miroslav Krstic;
Thesis: Boundary Control of Traffic Congestion - M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2015
- B.E., Aerospace Engineering (honor program), Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2013
Experience
- 2021-Now: Assistant Professor, INTR Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
- 2021-Now: Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- 2019-2021: Postdoc, University of California, San Diego, Professor Miroslav Krstic
- 2019: Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019, Professor Saurabh Amin
- 2018: Visiting researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 2018, Professor Alexandre Bayen and Professor Scott Moura
Ph.D. Students
Jiamin Wu (2025 Spring)
Research Interests: Traffic flow control; Human-in-the-Loop control; Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
Master in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2023
BEng in Highway and Bridge Engineering, Southeast University, 2022
Bairan Xiang (2025 Spring)
Research Interests: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning; Communication Learning for Multi-agent System
Master in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2023
BEng in Flight Vehicle Design and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2021
Yang Du (2025 Spring)
Research Interests: Traffic flow modeling and control; Machine learning
Master in Data Science and Machine Learning, National University of Singapore, 2025
BEng in Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2023
Yihuai ZHANG (2022 Fall)
Research Interests: Traffic control; PDE boundary control; Motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles
Master in Vehicle Engineering, South China University of Technology, 2022
BEng in Vehicle Engineering, Southwest University, 2019
Chenguang ZHAO (2022 Fall)
Research Interests: Traffic flow modeling; PDE boundary control; Machine learning
Master in Transportation Information Engineering & Control, Beihang University, 2022
BEng in Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 2019
Qian SUN (2021 Fall, co-advised with Professor Hui XIONG)
Research Interests: Traffic signal control; Mixed traffic; Multi-agent reinforcement learning
Joint bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and Brandeis University
MPhil Students
Jie Xu (2024 Fall)
Research Interests: Urban air mobility.
BEng in Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2020
Linfeng Lu (2024 Fall)
Research Interests: Urban air mobility; Machine learning.
BEng in Civil Engineering, Hainan University, 2024
Ziming Wang (2023 Fall)
Research Interests: Control theory; Intelligent transportation.
BEng in Electronic Information Engineering, Southwest University, 2023
Alumni
Yonghao Xu
MPhil, HKUST(GZ), 2022-2024; BEng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2022.
Current Position: Engineer, China Unicom
Ruohong Liu
MPhil, HKUST(GZ), 2022-2024; BEng, Tianjin University, 2022.
Current Position: PhD student, Oxford University
Ke Sun
RA, HKUST(GZ), 2024-2025; MS, National University of Singapore, 2019.
Current Position: PhD student, Rice University
Undergraduates
Yuxuan Ouyang (Fall 2023)
Yuanpeng Lin (Fall 2023)
Yu Research Group @ HKUST(GZ) 