Assistant Professor Yang Kaidi
ACCEPTING PHD STUDENTS
Faculty & Department
Education
Doctor of Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Bachelor of Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Bachelor of Science, Tsinghua University, China
Bio
Kaidi Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Transportation from ETH Zurich in 2019. Prior to this, he received a BEng. in Automation, a BSc. in Pure and Applied Mathematics, and an MSc. in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. His research aims to devise efficient and trustworthy algorithms for future mobility systems, focusing on emerging vehicular technologies and shared mobility. He has received multiple awards, including the Best Paper Award in Omega and Best Student Paper at the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference.
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I am mainly interested in developing efficient and trustworthy algorithms for future mobility systems, including but not limited to:
(i) Privacy-preserving management and control of transportation systems
(ii) Trustworthy AI-based control of multi-agent systems, including mixed-autonomy traffic flow and drone swarms
(iii) Learning-based optimization for transportation operations
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