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Shanjiang Zhu is an associate professor of transportation planning and engineering at George Mason University. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in 2003 and a master’s degree in 2005. During 2001-2003, he studied at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, in France, as a dual-degree student. He obtained his PhD at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2010 and worked two years as a research scientist at the University of Maryland before joining Mason Engineering.
Zhu is experienced in travel demand modeling, travel behavior analysis, GPS-based travel survey method, integrated transportation planning and simulation models, traffic incident management, and transportation economics. He is a Co-PI of the TransInfo University Transportation Center that focuses on big data studies in transportation. His research work has also been funded by the National Science Foundation Federal Highway Administration, Virginia Department of Transportation, and Virginia Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships. He is Virginia Governor’s appointee on the Technical Advisory Board of Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and is a fellow of Mason’s P3 policy center. Zhu is the recipient of the 2014 Young Researcher of the Year Award, International Transport Forum, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
