At a workshop titled ‘Intelligent Transportation Systems: Career Path to NetZero’ hosted by Queen Mary University of London and organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering UK and Ireland group, PhD student Tingting Yang won second prize for the best poster, out of 11 entrants.

Tingting’s poster, Trustable Public Transit through Integrated Multimodal Transit Network and Trip Planning demonstrated her first year work on a small-case exploring how to adapt an evolutionary algorithm in the London public transport network.

“My second-year target is to improve graph-based algorithm computation efficiency, which has been challenging in the past 20 years, but I am confident about that,” said Tingting about her research.

She was supervised by Dr Jun Chen and Dr Xinwei Wang alongside group member Nadeem Hassan Khondokar.

Tingting was also chosen to moderate an interactive panel discussion on career paths and choices in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), for which she was awarded a certificate.

Students from as far as Glasgow and Warwick travelled for the event, and the successful format will be recreated for events in Cairo and Beijing.

The IEEE ITSS reflected on the successful event saying “with such young talent, the future of ITS looks bright!”