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System Level Behaviour

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Causal inference for Urban Systems

Causal effect of disruptions and policy changes on road, transit, and micro-mobility systems using observational data.

Keywords: non-parametric, causal random forest, synthetic control, difference-in-difference

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Data-driven Activity-based Modelling

New methods to fuse cellular signal, transit smart card, and travel survey data to generate synthetic population and its activity plans.

Keywords: deep generative models, cluster-based data fusion, passively-collected data

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Adaptive Infrastructure Planning

Developing surrogate models of complex activity-based models to design adaptive pathways for infrastructure interventions under uncertainties.

Keywords: charging infrastructure, uncertainties, reinforcement learning

Individual Level Behaviour

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Data-driven Choice Models

Marrying deep learning with econometrics to develop interpretable (theory-driven), yet flexible, choice models.

Keywords: deep learning, variational inference, lattice network, interpretability, monotonicity

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Modelling Neurophysiological Data

Joint modelling of lab-based brain and eye movement data of decision makers with large- scale web-based choice data.

Keywords: sequential sampling models, dynamic models, response time

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Built Environment and Human Perception

Causal effect of urban designs on the user’s perception of stress and safety by collecting brain data in immersive environment.

Keywords: virtual reality, EEG, controlled environment, objective measures

Research Articles

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Lithium-ion battery recycling relieves the threat to material scarcity amid China’s electric vehicle ambitions.

B. Zhang, Q. Xin, S. Chen, B. Wang, H. Li, Z. Wang, and P. Bansal.

Nature Communications, 16(1) (2025)

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A new flexible and partially monotonic discrete choice model

Eui-Jin Kim and Prateek Bansal.

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 183 (2024): 102947.

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A novel data fusion method to leverage passively-collected mobility data in generating spatially-heterogeneous synthetic population.

Khoa D. Vo, Eui-Jin Kim, and Prateek Bansal.

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 191 (2025): 103128.

Lab News

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Ms Xinwei Li, advised by Prateek Bansal, has received the Behavior Modeling in Transport Networks (BiTN) Young Award 2025.

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Jiaxuan Ding presented results at the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC) in Puerto Varas, Chile.

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Xinwei Li was runner-up in the PhD-student-led paper competition at the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC).

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Meet Our Team

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Prateek Bansal

Principal Investigator

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Vladimir Maksimenko

Research Fellow

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Khoa Dang Vo

Research Fellow

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Jiaxuan Ding

Research Fellow

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Si Zhang

Research Fellow

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Qingyao Xin

Research Fellow

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Gen Li

Research Fellow

PhD Students

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Xinwei Li

PhD Student

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Zhuhan Jin

PhD Student

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Niloufar Javanbakht

PhD Student

Visiting Researchers

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Zhijie Jia

Visiting Professor

Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Dawei Cheng

Visiting PhD Student

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Ming Deng

Visiting PhD Student

Southeast University

Our Alumni

Eui-Jin Kim, Assistant Professor, Ajou University, South Korea

Jinghai Huo, PhD Student, Arizona State University, US

Seung Woo Ham, Generative AI Engineer, GALUX, Drug Design Center, South Korea

Guocong Zhai, Assistant Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Past visiting student

Xu Mengyun, PhD student, Wuhan University of Technology, China

Wu Zheng, PhD student, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Xin Qingyao, PhD student, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Daichi Ogawa, PhD student, University of Tokyo, Japan

Harsh Pandey, Undergraduate student, IIIT Naya Raipur, India