Principal Investigator

Rui Yao - Assistant Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Rui Yao

Assistant Professor · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Faculty and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Office: Rabin 727
Phone: +972-4-8293049
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Biography

Dr. Rui Yao is currently a tenure-track assistant professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion. Prior to Technion, he spent two years as a postdoc at the Laboratory for Human-Oriented Mobility Eco-system, EPFL, Switzerland, and another year at the Department of Management, Technical University of Demark (DTU). He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, and a direct-track PhD in Transportation Engineering both from the Technion. His main research interests include choice modeling in the network context, large-scale equilibrium modeling of multi-modal transportation systems, theory-driven machine learning in transportation modeling and application, as well as mobility demand management strategies.

Research Interests

Choice modeling, Network modeling, Game theory, Machine learning

Education

  • Ph.D (Direct Track), Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, 2022
  • BSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, 2018

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