About Me

I received my B.S. degree (2016) in Logistics engineering and Operation research from the University of Science and Technology Beijing and my Master's degree (2020) in Industrial engineering and Operation research from Beihang University.

Now I am a PhD student, majoring in Transportation Engineering at the University of Sydney (USYD) and a member of TransportLab under the supervision of Mohsen Ramezani. I focus on transportation research topics like Shared Mobility, Operation Strategy of Ride-sourcing markets and Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Transportation.

Research Interests

1. Intelligent transportation system (Ride-sourcing & Ride-hailing & Ridesharing systems like Uber and Didi chuxing)

2. Dynamic optimization and Stochastic optimization (Order dispatching & Ride matching & Repositioning & Fleet management)

3. Machine learning in transportation (Markov Decision Process & Multi-agent reinforcement learning)

4. Spatio-temporal Data-mining (Trajectory mining)

Education

1. B.S. of Engineering (Logistics Engineering and Operation research) , 2016, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, PR. China.

2. M.S. of Engineering (Industrial Engineering and Operation research) , 2020, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing, PR. China. (Advisor: Professor Qiong Tian)

3. PHD Student. of Engineering (Transportaion Engineering) , Present-2023, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. (Advisor: Professor Mohsen Ramezani and Professor David Levinson)

Working Experience

1. August 2018 – February 2019, Map Department, Didi Chuxing , Machine learning Engineer Intern (Advisor: Doctor Fan Ding)

2. March 2019 – January 2020, Ridesourcing Department, Didi Chuxing , Machine learning Engineer Intern (Advisor: Doctor Zhe Xu)

Publications

Peer-reviewed conference

1. Tian Q. , Yang Y., (2018) Who is More Likely and Where is Easier to be a Passenger in Ridesharing? The 23rd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS2018). Hong kong, December, 2018. (Speaker)

2. Xu, Z., Men, C., Li, P., Jin, B., Li, G., Yang, Y., ... & Qie, X., (2020). When Recommender Systems Meet Fleet Management: Practical Study in Online Driver Repositioning System. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (WWW2020) (pp. 2220-2229). [Link]

3. Yang Y., Shi Y., Wang, D., ..., Zhang, H., (2021). Improving the Information Disclosure in Mobility-on-Demand Systems. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD2021) (pp. 3854-3864). [Link]

Peer-reviewed Journals

1. Yang Y., Tian Q.* and Wang Y., (2020). Who is more likely to get a ride and where is easier to be picked up in ride-sharing mode? Journal of Management Science and Engineering (JMSE). In Press [Link]

2. Ramezani M.*, Yang Y., Elmasry J., and Tang P., (2022). An empirical study on characteristics of supply in e-hailing markets: A clustering approach. Transportation Letters. [Link] [Video]

3. Yang Y., Ramezani M.*, (2022). A Learning Method for Real-time Repositioning in E-hailing Services. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [Link]

4. Yang Y., Umboh S. W., M.*, Ramezani M.*, (2023). Freelance drivers have a decline choice: dispatch menus in on-demand mobility services for assortment optimization. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.

Awards & Honors

1. Excellent Graduates, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2016.

2. Top 15 Team in the competition around Asia of Maritime Logistics Hackathon 2017 - Hong Kong. [Link]

3. Best paper award in the 11th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS), Tianjin, China. (2019)

Relationship

I am in relationship with Jiaman He.

Hobbies

League of Legends

I am good at Jungle, Support , AD carry and AP carry, I have four representative picks: [Heimerdinger, the Revered Inventor], [Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter], [Jarvan IV, the Exemplar of Demacia], [Leona, the Radiant Dawn].

Music

My favorite music singer is BOL4 main vocals Ahn Ji-young, looking like an angel when she is singing.

Football

My favorite football star is Marco Reus, a German professional footballer and the captain of Borussia Dortmund. I got to know him when I was thirteen and I was impressed by his talents, skills and handsome looking. In the following years, I was deeply motivated to be a good man like him.