Susan Jia Xu recently completed her Ph.D. in Transportation Planning and Engineering at NYU Tandon, where she worked with C2SMART Deputy Director Joseph Chow. She received her Bachelor Degree (2013) in Civil Engineering from Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada) and Masters Degree (2015) in Transportation Engineering from University of California Irvine.

Susan’s research interests include multimodal systems analysis, inverse optimization problems, urban logistics, activity-based schedule assignment, and big data and analytics. Her work has included evaluating the impact of urban transport infrastructure on demand, applying machine learning methods to infer individual network preferences from panel data, design of information systems based on forecasting impacts of multimodal designs on people’s activity scheduling decisions, and quantifying the social impacts of partnerships between public agencies and private companies like Lyft and Uber.