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Yi Zhang

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Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R),
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR)

PhD, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Email: yzhang120@e.ntu.edu.sg

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Brief Introduction

Ms. Yi Zhang currently is a research scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR). She received her PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Su Rong at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and B.S. degree at school of control science and engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2014.

Research Interests

Smart Cities

  • Urban traffic flow management

  • Model-based traffic signal scheduling

  • Multi-directional pedestrian-flow simulation

  • Multi-bus dispatching and operation

Optimization methods

  • Dual decomposition

  • Evolutionary algorithm

  • Mixed integer linear programming

News and Announcements

2020

  • [NOV 2020] I have submitted my Fourth Journal Paper " Dynamic multi-bus dispatching strategy with boarding and holding control for passenger delay alleviation and schedule reliability: a combined dispatching-operation system " to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • [SEP 2020] I attended the online meeting and presented my paper "An adaptive pre-signal setting to provide bus priority under a coordinated traffic-responsive network " for the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the minor revison comments of my Third Journal Paper " A multi-bus dispatching strategy based on boarding control" has been received from IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • [MAY 2020] My paper "An adaptive pre-signal setting to provide bus priority under a coordinated traffic-responsive network " for the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems has been accepted.

  • [APR 2020] I have received my PhD Degree Certificate from Nanyang Technological University.

  • [Feb 2020] I have finished my PhD Oral Examination at Nanyang Technological University.

2019

  • [Nov 2019] My Second Journal Paper "Pedestrian-Safety-Aware Traffic Light Control Strategy for Urban Traffic Congestion Alleviation" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • [AUG 2019] I have uploaded my PhD thesis for reviewers’ examination.

  • [JUL 2019] Our paper "A Hybrid Traffic Light Control Strategy Based on Branching Ratio Estimation and Congestion Identification" has been accepted by the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC 2019).

  • [JUN 2019] My Second Journal Paper "Pedestrian-Safety-Aware Traffic Light Control Strategy for Urban Traffic Congestion Alleviation" has been accepted with minor revision from IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • [MAR 2019] The major revison comments of My Second Journal Paper "Pedestrian-Safety-Aware Traffic Light Control Strategy for Urban Traffic Congestion Alleviation" has been received from IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  • [FEB 2019] My paper " Optimization of vehicle delay and drivers’ unhappiness at a signalized network: a multi-objective approach " for 15th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE ICCA 2019) has been accepted.

2018

  • [NOV 2018] I attended the ICARCV 2018 as a voluteer to help on counter registration.

  • [OCT 2018] We showcase our research demos during NTU-NXP Smart Mobility Testbed Workshop (MTB2018). The posters can be found on our project website.

  • [APR 2018] Paper "Pedestrian phase pattern investigation in a traffic light scheduling problem for signalized network" has been accepted by 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications.

  • [APR 2018] The major revison comments of Paper "Traffic light scheduling for mixed-flow pedestrians-vehicles network" has been received by IEEE transaction on Intelligent Transportation System.

2017