Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering Apr 2023 – Apr 2027 (expected)
  The University of Hong Kong
  Advisor: Prof. Jintao Ke · HKU Smart Mobility Lab
• Visiting Ph.D. Student Mar 2026 – Sept 2026
  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  Host: Prof. Nicolas Geroliminis · Urban Transport Systems Laboratory
• M.S. in Computer Science Sept 2021 – Dec 2022
  The University of Hong Kong
• B.E. in Software Engineering Sept 2017 – Jun 2021
  Nankai University

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence for Transportation Systems
• Learning-based Sequential Decision Making
• Human Mobility Intelligence and Foundation Models
• Transportation Digital Twins and Simulation

Research Experience

• Research Intern · Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Sep 2026 – Present
  LLM agent design for domain-specific tasks and LLM post-training.
• Research Intern · Didi Chuxing Jul 2025 – Feb 2026
  Formulated dynamic pricing as a constrained MDP and designed a reinforcement learning algorithm to solve it.
• Research Intern · Didi Chuxing Nov 2022 – Jul 2023
  Time-series models for electric-vehicle anomaly detection.
• Research Assistant · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Aug 2022 – Mar 2023
  Reinforcement learning methods for vehicle dispatching and repositioning.

Publications 13 entries

Learning-based Decision Making and Optimization for Mobility Systems

• D³-Subsidy: Online and Sequential Driver Subsidy Decision-Making for Large-Scale Ride-Hailing Market

  Chen, T., Su, R., Feng, S., Zhang, L., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Ma, Z., Ke, J., & Ma, L.

  Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Vol. 2 (KDD '26), pp. 7094–7105, 2026.

  CCF-A

• T2BR: A Hierarchical Repositioning Approach for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

  Chen, T., Liu, J., Feng, S.^✉, Qiu, J., & Ke, J.

  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26(12), 23139–23150, 2025.

  SCI-Q1 Top CCF-B IF 8.5

• Sequential Driver Subsidy Control for Large-Scale Ride-Hailing Platforms under Budget Constraints

  Chen, T., Su, R., Feng, S.^✉, Zhang, L., Wang, H., Liu, X., Zhang, H., Ma, Z., Ma, L., & Ke, J.^✉

  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  Under review

• Dynamic Matching Radius Decision Model for On-Demand Ride Services: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Approach

  Chen, T., Shen, Z., Feng, S.^✉, Yang, L., & Ke, J.

  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 193, 103822, 2025.

  SCI-Q1 Top IF 8.3

• Multipath: Deep Learning-Based Multimodal Route Guidance with User Preference Integration

  Shen, Z., Chen, T., Zhou, B., & Ke, J.^✉

  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

  Major revision

Foundation Models and LLMs for Urban Computing

• Addressing the Online Incremental Transport Mode Choice Prediction Problem with an LLM-Augmented Class-Incremental Learning Approach

  Chen, T., Shen, Z., Zhou, B., Liu, Y., Wang, S., & Ke, J.

  Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 188, 105709, 2026.

  SCI-Q1 Top IF 7.9

• Assisting Feature Discovery for Travel-Behaviour Regression with Iterative Large Language Model Agents

  Chen, T.^†, Su, R.^†, Zhao, Y.^✉, & Ke, J.

  Travel Behaviour and Society.

  Under review

• Teaching-Inspired Integrated Prompting Framework: A Novel Approach for Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models

  Tan, W., Chen, D., Xue, J., Wang, Z., & Chen, T.^✉

  Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track (COLING), pp. 827–839, 2025.

  CCF-B

• VISTA: Vision-Language Integrated Spatiotemporal Station Recommendation for Autonomous Taxi Fleets

  Jiang, Z., Chen, T., Xu, J., Shen, Z., Zhou, B., & Ke, J.

  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

  Under review

• LAB-Tab: LLM-Augmented Bayesian Network Adaptation for Few-Shot Tabular Generation

  Shen, Z., Chen, T., Zhou, B., Jiang, Z., & Ke, J.^✉

  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

  Under review

Human Mobility Intelligence and Behavioural Modelling

• To Grab or Not to Grab? Revealing Determinants of Drivers' Willingness to Grab Orders under the Broadcasting Mode

  Chen, T., Liang, J., Zhao, Y.^✉, & Ke, J.

  Travel Behaviour and Society, 41, 101093, 2025.

  SSCI-Q1 Top IF 5.1

AI-enabled Transportation Simulation and Digital Twins

• A Multi-Functional Simulation Platform for On-Demand Ride Service Operations

  Feng, S., Chen, T., Zhang, Y., Ke, J.^✉, Zheng, Z., & Yang, H.

  Communications in Transportation Research, 4, 100141, 2024.

  SCI-Q1 Top IF 12.5

• SMARTSim: Scalable Multimodal AI-Friendly Rapid Transportation Simulator

  Wang, J., Chen, T., & Ke, J.^✉

  Engineering Management.

  Major revision

^✉ corresponding author · ^† equal contribution

Patents

• An AI-based System for Simulating a Transportation Network

  Ke, J., Chen, T., Wang, J.

  Hong Kong Standard Patent (Original Grant) 22025109703.0 Filed 10 Jul 2025
  Claiming priority to U.S. Patent Application No. 63/669,387.

• 基于类别增量的可扩充出行选择预测系统

  An Expandable Travel Choice Prediction System Based on Class-Incremental Learning

  Ke, J., Chen, T.

  China Patent 2026105953942 Filed 30 Apr 2026

• 一种用于管理出行服务的方法和装置

  A Method and Apparatus for Managing Mobility Services

  Chen, T., Zhang, L., Ma, L., Ma, Z., Wang, H., Feng, S., Su, R.

  China Patent Application 202610230692.1 Filed 26 Feb 2026

• 一种用于管理出行服务的方法和装置

  A Method and Apparatus for Managing Mobility Services

  Su, R., Zhang, L., Ma, L., Ma, Z., Wang, H., Feng, S., Chen, T.

  China Patent Application 202610230690.2 Filed 26 Feb 2026

• 基于行为感知的混合自动驾驶共享出行司乘匹配方法

  A Behaviour-Aware Driver–Passenger Matching Method for Mixed-Autonomy Shared Mobility

  Ke, J., Chen, T., Wang, J.

  China Patent Application 202511647569.1 Filed 11 Nov 2025

Projects

• Core MemberSmartSim: AI-assisted Simulation Software for Multimodal Transportation Operations

  Smart Traffic Fund, Hong Kong SAR Government · PSRI/78/2311/RA

  Sep 2024 – Aug 2026

• Core MemberA Study on Spatiotemporal Supply-Demand Regulation in the Ride-Hailing Scenario

  CCF-DiDi GAIA Collaborative Research Fund · 202410

  Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 RMB ¥250,000

• Project ManagerDevelopment of a Simulation Platform and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Optimising Operation and Management of Taxi E-hailing Services

  Smart Traffic Fund, Hong Kong SAR Government · PSRI/29/2201/PR

  Mar 2023 – Sep 2024

• Principal InvestigatorDigital Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage Based on VR Technology — a Case Study of Tianjin's “Clay Figure Zhang” Culture

  Tianjin Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project · 201910055373

  Sep 2019 – Sep 2024 RMB ¥10,000

Teaching

• CIVL7021 NEC contract management

  The University of Hong Kong, Department of Civil Engineering

  Postgraduate course Hong Kong, China Sep 2026

• CIVL7018 Data science for civil engineering

  The University of Hong Kong, Department of Civil Engineering

  Postgraduate course Hong Kong, China Jan 2025 · Jan 2026

• CIVL3140 Artificial intelligence in civil engineering

  The University of Hong Kong, Department of Civil Engineering

  Undergraduate course Hong Kong, China Sep 2023

• MATH 1853 Linear algebra, probability and statistics

  The University of Hong Kong, Department of Mathematics

  Undergraduate course Hong Kong, China Sep 2023

• Advanced language programming training

  Nankai University, Department of Software Engineering

  Undergraduate course Tianjin, China Jul 2020