Hi, This is Tong!
I’m a scientist at Uber. Before starting the industry career, I received my PhD degree at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests are in creating scalable, generalizable graph neural network application for transportation system. I have worked on several areas in transportation system, including traffic flow prediction, reliability analysis, network planning.
Before my PhD, I graduated from the Stanford University in 2020 and Tongji University in 2018.
Work Experiences
- Feb 2025 – Present: Scientist @ Uber, San Francisco, CA
- Jun – Aug 2024: Statistics intern, Analytics & Innovation @ United Airlines, Chicago, IL
- May – Aug 2019: Machine learning intern, T2D2 @ Thornton Tomasetti, New York, NY
Awards
- NSF Innovation Corps (National I-Crops), 2023
- Illinois Innovation Corps (Illinois I-Corps), 2023
- Environmental Engineering Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020
- Excellent Graduate of Shanghai, 2018
- National Scholarship, Gov. of China, 2017