Dr. Xuesong Zhou
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2004, University of Maryland
Office Number: 210 CME
Phone Number: 801.585.6590
Fax Number: 801.585.5477
Email: zhou@eng.utah.edu
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Dr. Xuesong Zhou serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah from January, 2007. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2004.
Prior to joining the University of Utah, Dr. Zhou worked as a Traffic Data Architect and Senior Software Engineer at Dash Navigation Inc, designing and developing real-time traffic estimation and prediction algorithms for the first commercialized internet-connected GPS navigation system in the U.S.. He also worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and a Research Scientist at North Carolina State University in 2004 and 2005, respectively.
Dr. Zhou's research interests include modeling and simulation of dynamic traffic systems, estimation and prediction of network traffic conditions using advanced sensor technologies, as well as routing, scheduling and collaborative decision making in multimodal transportation systems. In general, his research aims to reduce traffic delays in metropolitan areas by providing advanced and effective mechanisms to (1) accurately forecast network-wide traffic patterns and (2) effectively inform and divert travelers to avoid recurring and non-recurring congestion. For past 7 years, he has been assisting the FHWA to develop and provide technical support for a large-scale simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment system, namely DYNASMART-P, which is one of FHWA's 24 priority, market-ready technologies and innovations.
Dr. Zhou's research work has been published in highly cited scholarly journals such as Transportation Research Part B, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions in Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Transportation Research Record. He has serves as a reviewer for more than ten international journals. He won a second place award in the Student Research Paper Contest organized by the Rail Applications Section of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) in 2003. Dr. Zhou is a regular member of INFORMS and a full member of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
Research Topics
| Transportation Modeling | Simulation of Dynamic Traffic Systems |
| Advanced Sensor Technology | Traffic Networking |
| Decision Systems | Multimodal Transportation |
