Ph.D., Transportation Engineering (Transportation planning and management), Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 2018 B.S., Transportation Engineering (International shipment), Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, 2009
Dr. Xin Wu is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. He received his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, where he was recognized as an outstanding doctoral graduate. He has held research positions in both academia and industry. Before joining Villanova, Dr. Wu served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University, where he contributed extensively to projects funded by government agencies such as the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), and the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA). Before his research experience in the United States, Dr. Wu worked at the Beijing Transport Institute, where he participated in large-scale transportation modeling and policy analysis projects. Dr. Wu’s research interests include transportation management and planning, travel demand modeling, transportation system optimization, supply chain management, logistics system design, and railway operations. He has extensive experience developing computational models and applying optimization methods to solve complex challenges in multimodal transportation and logistics systems.
He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Transportation Research Board (TRB), Transportation Research Part C (TRC), Transportation Research Part E (TRE), and the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR). He has also received several best paper awards, including recognition from Multimodal Transportation.