Jason Lu
Hello! I am a Civil Engineering PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, where I am also concurrently pursuing my M.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering. I am advised by Prof. Neda Masoud in the Next Generation Mobility Systems Lab. My personal research interest lies in optimization and machine learning to innovate transportation systems. Specifically, my motivation is to design more intelligent and operationally efficient mobility, transit, and freight systems. Previously, I was the Vice President of the Michigan Transportation Student Organization.
I obtained my B.S. in Industrial Engineering with a Minor in Scientific and Engineering Computing at Georgia Tech, where I was an Undergraduate Research Assistant, and after graduation a Research Assistant, in the Socially Aware Mobility Lab and the Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization under Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck.
While at Georgia Tech, I was an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant and Head Teaching Assistant for four different courses. I was also the instructor of the The Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering, a high school STEM outreach initiative.
I worked as an Industrial Engineering Intern at Yokogawa Summer 2020, Summer 2021, and Fall 2021 in the Manufacturing and Quality Engineering Department. During the Spring of 2022, my senior design team partnered with Convoy in their Process Design and Improvement Department as Process Improvement Interns, where my team was 1 of 3 finalists for the semester.
In my free time (during the few occasions when I have some), you can find me eating Korean BBQ, attending concerts/music festivals, going to the movies, or watching NASCAR.
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Education
University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (Expected 2028)
- Specialization in Next Generation Transportation Systems
- GPA: 3.96/4.0
University of Michigan
Master of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering (Expected 2026)
- GPA: 3.96/4.0
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (2022)
- Minor in Scientific and Engineering Computing
- GPA: 3.93/4.0
News
- 05/2025: My undergraduate advisee, YiLing Wu, graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. YiLing will begin her PhD at Texas A&M University Fall 2025 and received the Aviles-Johnson Doctoral Fellowship. Congrats YiLing!
- 04/2025: I completed my tenure as Vice President of the Michigan Transportation Student Organization.
- 03/2025: Prof. Neda Masoud presented our work at the 2025 CCAT Global Symposium on Mobility Innovation in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 02/2025: I gave an invited talk at University of Michigan as part of the Next Generation Transportation Systems Seminar Series.
- 10/2024: I served as session chair and presented at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona
- 05/2024: Passed qualifying exam and advanced to candidancy.
- 04/2024: Elected Vice President of the Michigan Transportation Student Organization.
- 03/2024: My first lead-author peer-reviewed journal paper has been published in Travel Behaviour and Society in a special issue: Multimodal Public Transport, Travel Behaviour and Social Equity.
- 10/2023: Dr. Vahid Eghbal Akhlaghi presented our work at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 08/2023: First day at the University of Michigan as a PhD Student in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Next Generation Transportation Systems advised by Prof. Neda Masoud.
- 07/2023: Final day at Georgia Tech. Thank you to all my incredible friends and a special thank you to my undergraduate research advisor Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck.
- 06/2023: Final time leading the Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering.
- 04/2023: Officially committed to the University of Michigan to pursue my PhD.
- 12/2022: Began working at Georgia Tech as a Predoctoral Research Assistant.
- 12/2022: Graduated from Georgia Tech with my Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and minor in Scientific and Engineering Computing.
- 06/2022: First time leading the Seth Bonder Camp in Computational and Data Science for Engineering.
- 04/2022: Selected as 1 of 3 industrial engineering senior design finalist teams for the Spring 2022 semester.