Dr. Qian is an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at Rice University. Before Rice, he served as an assistant professor and Hewson Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama from 2020 to 2024. His areas of specialization include mathematical modeling and data-driven methods for transportation problems, focusing on transportation electrification, public transportation, and shared mobility applications. He has published over 60 journal and conference papers in esteemed journals and conferences. He completed his M.S.E (2014) and Ph.D. (2018) in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, where he investigated the transmission of infectious diseases in transportation systems for his Ph.D. dissertation.
WEBSITE(S)| Mobility-X Lab
Research Areas
Transportation network modeling, Applied operation research, Data analytics, Human mobility, Urban Computing
Education
B.S. Transportation Engineering, Tongji University
M.S.E., Purdue University
Ph.D., Purdue University
Teaching Areas
Transportation Engineering
Models and Algorithms for Transportation Systems
Data Science for Transportation
Societies & Organizations
Transportation Research Board
INFORMS