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Tao Feng is a full professor of Urban and Data Science Lab, Hiroshima University. His research interests include decision making analysis in urban environment, dynamic models, behavior change and data-driven technology in urban and transportation planning. He has been an associate professor, an assistant professor and a postdoc researcher in Eindhoven University of Technology during 2008-2021. He obtained his PhD in engineering from Hiroshima University.

Dr.Shuangjin Li is an Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University. Her research now focuses on healthy city and urban spatial computing and simulation. She has experience working as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD in engineering from Hiroshima University.

Ying ZHAO is a Ph.D. candidate in the Urban and Data Science Lab at Hiroshima University. She obtained her BS in Traffic Engineering from Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology, MS in Transportation Engineering from Shenzhen University. Before joining Hiroshima University, she worked as an assistant professor at Shaanxi College of Communications Technology. Her research interests include travel behavior analysis, transport system optimization, urban air mobility, and mobility as a service.

Zhang Meiqin is a Ph.D. candidate at the Urban and Data Science Lab, Hiroshima University. She earned her Master's degree from Kyoto University, Japan in 2015. She worked as a design assistant at a Japanese design company from 2016 to 2019, and then served as a teacher at Guangdong Environmental Protection Engineering Vocational College in Guangzhou from 2019 to 2022. Her research interests encompass the Built Environment, New Community Redevelopment, Urban Air Mobility.

Mingxi Nie is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban and Data Science Lab at Hiroshima University from 2023, supervised by Prof. Tao Feng.
He holds a B.F.A in Environmental design and a M.LA in Landscape Architecture. He worked as a Research Assistant in South China University of Technology during 2021-2022. His research interests include design and evaluation in built environment, and people travel behaviour.

I am a doctoral student in Urban and Data Science at Hiroshima University. My main research focus is on machine learning and activity-travel modeling.