Author Archives: Xinwu Qian

Congrats to Hossein Gazmeh for winning the best poster award at the Energy HPC conference (https://www.energyhpc.rice.edu/).

Congratulations to Hossein Gazmeh on receiving the industry fellowship for his work on charging infrastructure analytics, and thanks the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University for the generous support! News link: https://kenkennedy.rice.edu/sponsored-fellowships

Our latest work, titled “Solving the Equity-Aware Dial-a-Ride Problem using a Branch-Cut-and-Price Algorithm  ”, has been acccepted for publication in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. In this study, we developed a new BPC algorithm that can be applied to solve … Continue reading →

Mobi-X lab has 7 papers accepted for presentation at the upcoming 2025 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Neural BPC: Enhancing Branch-and-Price Algorithm with Graph Neural Cuts for the Human-Centered Dial-a-Ride Problems. (with Shuocheng Guo) Urban Mobility Reveals Social Barriers of … Continue reading →

I had the honor to deliver a talk on informing charging infrastructure decisions from human mobility data at the 2nd U.S.-Japan Exchange Program for Green Growth Collaboration through Clean Energy Technologies, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. My Ph.D. … Continue reading →

Mobi-X lab received a $3 million award from USDOE ($800k Rice share) for developing and piloting community-driven mobility solutions.

New paper published in TR-B on multi-agent RL for traffic metering control. See link below: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191261524001401