Kenan Zhang, new professor in transportation at EPFL

Kenan Zhang’s research looks at transport management, with particular reference to newly emerging mobility services, autonomous vehicles and machine learning in transport. In her work, she combines her specialist knowledge of engineering and transport with her statistical skills. Her research interests are a match with the school’s interdisciplinary approach and its emphasis on the digitalisation of urban infrastructures. This up-and-coming researcher also contributes to quantifying the potential of innovations for improving urban mobility, efficiency and sustainability.

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has also appointed Professor Nikolas Geroliminis, currently Associate Professor at EPFL, as Full Professor of Transport Engineering in ENAC. He is working on challenging problems with strong theoretical underpinnings, advancing the field through methodological contributions and developments in technology and the social context of transport systems. He offers an all-in-one approach to large-scale mobility monitoring and modeling with advanced traffic management solutions. He has created a large-scale open science dataset of natural urban trajectories through a unique drone experiment (https://open-traffic.epfl.ch). He has received numerous awards, including an ERC Starting Grant. He is an editor of Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies, one of the leading journals in the field of transportation