Our people

Aruna Sivakumar 

Fangce Guo

Short-term traffic prediction.
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Jacek Pawlak

Transport demand and travel behaviour modelling; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour; digital time use and connectivity; travel time use; productivity; valuation of travel time savings; big data enrichment methods and applications. 
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Tang Li

Modelling the mixed traffic flow of Autonomous Vehicles and Human-Driven Vehicles; developing novel control and management strategies; Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs); Vehicle to Grid (V2G); Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Virtual Reality (VR); Urban Railway System and Urban System.
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Han Wang

Understanding human behaviour and choice in energy and transport systems via demand modelling, DSM, DSR, AI/LLMs, pedestrian-vehicle interaction, and VR.
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Abdulfatah Abu

Started Oct 2018
Forecasting future car ownership preference taking into account changes in the structure of private transport.
Supervised by: Sivakumar, A.
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James Shepherd

Started Oct 2023
V2g
Supervised by: Sivakumar, A.; 
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Jeff Wu

Started Oct 2022
Choice models.
Supervised by: Sivakumar, A.; 
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Neil Hoose

In 1999 Neil formed the Bittern Partnership, which subsequently became Bittern Consulting Limited in 2003, an independent consultancy specialising in intelligent transport systems, with particular experience in traffic monitoring technologies and traffic data systems. 

Rajesh Krishnan

Dr Rajesh Krishnan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Transport Studies. His research areas include Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), traffic sensors, real-time and offline analysis and use of transport data, traffic control and management and public transport.  He has been involved with a number of cutting edge ITS projects, working closely with academia and local government agencies in the UK. 

Francesco Manca

Research interests: Travel behaviour and transport demand.

Marcus Wigan

His research interests include (i) integrated transport policy including powered and unpowered two and three wheelers, as well as mobility options ranging from electric bicycles to hybrid and conventional 'cars', freight and logistical systems and modelling analyses of all these areas; pavement management systems and ITS; GIS applications to human geography; Location Based Services and their ITS and privacy and surveillance aspects; Governance of transport and information systems; transport data and its effective utilisation; and contestable evidence based policy as a transformative tool in the transitions to sustainability.

Chenyang Wu

Research interests: Modelling of shared vehicles demand.

Wai Lung Justin Yiu

Justin is an experienced Principal Data Scientist working in the public sector in the United Kingdom. With extensive experience across the engineering industry and academic research, his work focuses on applying Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), Generative AI, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to engineering and modelling applications.

Alessandra Abeille

Research interests: travel time use and travel behaviour modelling; productivity of knowledge workers in mobile settings; effects of ICT and cabin environment on mobile work; travel-based multitasking; governmental investment appraisal frameworks for transport infrastructure.

Nicolò Daina

Developing long-term forecasts for demand-side management (DSM) programs, distributed energy resources (DERs), and the electrification of heat and transportation.

Ahmadreza Faghih Imani

Travel behaviour and demand modeling, Active transportation, Integrated land-use/transport modeling, Urban energy systems​

Huiqiao (Heather) Hou

Heather is an Assistant Professor at the College of Urban Development and Modern Transportation, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China. She received her PhD from Imperial College London in 2023, supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC)–Imperial PhD Scholarship. Her research focuses on multi-scale travel behaviour modelling, from fine-scale built environments to the urban district scale, leveraging spatiotemporal trajectory data and social media textual data to investigate mobility decision-making processes.

Charilaos Latinopoulos

Research Interests: Electric vehicles and the effects of charging demand on the power grid; Shared mobility systems; Revenue management; Dynamic pricing; Choice modelling; Stated preferences.

Scott Le Vine

Le Vine is an Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz, an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College, He frequently delivers invited talks to audiences in academia practicing urban planners, and the automotive industry. He is lead-inventor of patent-pending congestion pricing technology for Self-Driving (Automated) Cars, and has provided expert testimony to various levels of government in both the UK and US. His research interests are: Mobility Services; Accessibility Theory; Traffic Control Strategies; Pricing and Market Governance.

Rafael Maldonado

Alireza Zolfaghari

He is a data scientist by background specialising in the areas of machine learning and econometrics. He has served as an advisor to deputy minister of housing on a wide range of technology and policy issues and was an Assistant Professor at Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Centre. Alireza holds a PhD from Imperial College London in urban systems modelling with over 5 years of experience of interdisciplinary research in economics and computer science with applications to smart cities. 

Yanjie Dong

Bianca Howard

Research Interests: Buildings and their interaction with energy and transport systems. Methods: Dynamic Thermal Modelling; Model Predictive Control; Mixed Integer Linear Programming; Simulation of Stochastic Processes.

Esra Suel

Research interests: application of learning methods to large scale data (e.g. street imagery and high resolution satellite data), for characterizing urban environmental features and exposures that are relevant for health, measurement of urban inequalities and how they change in social economic status, housing, and transport.

Konstantinos Zavitsas

Yuanying Zhao