A civil and transportation engineering researcher with a PhD fully funded by the China Scholarship Council. Published more than twenty SCI journal papers focusing on railway timetable optimization, train rescheduling, robustness measures, and travel time reliability. Developed heuristic and branch‑and‑bound approaches for the traveling salesman problem and single‑line railway scheduling. Contributed to research on autonomous driving systems, driver assistance, and infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. Received the Distinguished International Scholar award from the China Scholarship Council. Actively involved in international research collaborations with top Chinese universities and Australian institutions. Served as a research committee member for doctoral students and secured grants from the National Science Foundation of China. Presented work at major conferences including ASCE Transportation Engineering and ICRT. Research interests also extend to traffic safety, red‑light running analysis, and the applic