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Dingyi Zhuang (庄丁奕)
dingyi [AT] mit [DOT] edu
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Transportation at
MIT JTL Transit Lab, supervised by
Prof. Jinhua Zhao and also a member of UrbanAI Lab. I earned my M.Eng (2021) at McGill University under
Prof. Lijun Sun and my B.Sc. (2019) in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University advised by Prof. Jiangang Jin. I also served as a research assistant at the National University of Singapore with
Prof. Lee Der-Horng.
I will join Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence as a summer intern in 2025.
Before that, I spent time doing researchs at Morgan Stanley Machine Learning Research Team and Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).
I bring AI&ML techniques to transportation engineering and urban planning, broadly including four key research themes.
(1) Spatiotemporal data modeling leverages graph neural networks for imputation, forecasting, and (dynamic) kriging across large-scale urban systems.
(2) Uncertainty quantification focuses on frequentist approaches to ensure reliable and trustworthy prediction intervals in real-world deployments.
(3) Intelligent transportation systems addresses multi-agent control, equity, and bias mitigation, promoting fair, human-centered mobility.
(4) Generative AI integrates unstructured data—from images to textual content—to enhance spatial reasoning and planning capability of foundation models in urban scenarios.
[New] I'm on the job market 2025-2026. Feel free to contact me if you know of a position for which I could be a fit.
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Zhihu
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Feb |
2025 |
Paper “GETS: Ensemble Temperature Scaling for Calibration in Graph Neural Networks” accepted at
ICLR 2025 (Spotlight).
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Feb |
2025 |
Paper “Time Series Supplier Allocation via Deep Black-Litterman Model” accepted at
AAAI 2025 (Oral).
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Feb |
2025 |
Paper “Mitigating Spatial Disparity in Urban Prediction Using Residual-Aware Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks” accepted at
WWW 2025 and also appearing in
TRB 2025.
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Nov |
2024 |
Paper “ItiNera: Integrating Spatial Optimization with Large Language Models for Open-domain Urban Itinerary Planning” accepted at
EMNLP 2024 (Industry Track), also
KDD UrbComp 2024 Best Paper.
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Oct |
2024 |
Presented “Quantifying Uncertainty: Advancing Robustness, Reliability, and Fairness in AI-Driven Transportation Demand Modeling”
at INFORMS 2024.
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Aug |
2024 |
Paper “Uncertainty-aware Probabilistic Graph Neural Networks for Road-level Traffic Crash Prediction” accepted at
Accident Analysis & Prevention (AAP) 2024.
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Jun |
2024 |
Presented “Uncertainty Quantification on Sparse Spatiotemporal Data Prediction”
at Machine Learning Seminar, Morgan Stanley.
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Jun |
2024 |
Started my internship at Morgan Stanley advised by Majid Behbahani
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Mar |
2024 |
Paper “SAUC: Sparsity-Aware Uncertainty Calibration for Spatiotemporal Prediction with Graph Neural Networks” accepted at
SIGSPATIAL 2024 (Oral),
also Spotlight talk at TGL Workshop, NeurIPS 2023.
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Oct |
2023 |
Paper “Uncertainty Quantification via Spatial-Temporal Tweedie Model for Zero-inflated and Long-tail Travel Demand Prediction” accepted at
CIKM 2023.
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Oct |
2023 |
Presented “Modeling Multi-perspective Nature of Urban Dynamics”
at the Allen Turing Institute.
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Oct |
2023 |
Presented “Modeling Multi-perspective Nature of Urban Dynamics”
at The Space Time Lab, University College London.
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Oct |
2023 |
Presented “Sparsity-Aware Uncertainty Calibration for Spatiotemporal Prediction with Graph Neural Networks”
at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL.
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Jul |
2023 |
Presented “Uncertainty Quantification of Sparse Trip Demand Prediction”
at Lyft.
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Jul |
2023 |
Presented “Deep Hybrid Model with Urban Road Network for Travel Demand Analysis”
at the Transit Data Section, WCTR 2023.
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May |
2023 |
Presented “Deep Hybrid Model with Urban Road Network”
at the MIT Mobility Initiative Forum.
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Apr |
2023 |
Presented “Uncertainty Quantification of Sparse Trip Demand Prediction”
at the Urban Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Florida.
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Feb |
2023 |
Presented “Deep Hybrid Model with Urban Road Network for Travel Demand Analysis”
at CEE Research Days, MIT Media Lab.
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Oct |
2022 |
Presented “Uncertainty Quantification of Sparse Trip Demand Prediction”
at the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University.
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Aug |
2022 |
Paper “Uncertainty Quantification of Sparse Travel Demand Prediction with Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks” accepted at
KDD 2022 (Oral).
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Spatio-temporal Data Modeling
Uncertainty Quantification
Intelligent transportation
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GETS: Ensemble Temperature Scaling for Calibration in Graph Neural Networks
Dingyi Zhuang*,
Chonghe Jiang*,
Yunhan Zheng,
Shenhao Wang,
Jinhua Zhao
[ICLR 2025] International Conference on Learning Representations 2025 Spotlight
arXiv |
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OpenReview |
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Time Series Supplier Allocation via Deep Black-Litterman Model
Xinke Jiang*,
Wentao Zhang*,
Yuchen Fang*,
Xiaowei Gao,
Hao Chen,
Haoyu Zhang,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Jiayuan Luo,
[AAAI 2025] Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2025 Oral presentation
arXiv |
code |
poster |
slides |
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Mitigating Spatial Disparity in Urban Prediction Using Residual-Aware Spatiotemporal
Graph Neural Networks: A Chicago Case Study
Dingyi Zhuang,
Hanyong Xu,
Xiaotong Guo,
Yunhan Zheng,
Shenhao Wang,
Jinhua Zhao
[WWW 2025] Companion Proceeding of the ACM Web Conference at the International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining from the Web 2025
Also at Transportation Research Board 2025
arXiv |
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ItiNera: Integrating Spatial Optimization with Large Language Models for Open-domain Urban Itinerary Planning
Yihong Tang*,
Zhaokai Wang*,
Ao Qu*,
Yihao Yan*,
Zhaofeng Wu,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Jushi Kai,
Kebing Hou,
Xiaotong Guo,
Jinhua Zhao,
Zhan Zhao,
Wei Ma,
[EMNLP 2024] Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Industry Track 2024
Also at KDD UrbComp 2024 Best Paper Award
arXiv |
code |
poster |
best paper award |
WeChat Official Accounts Report (Chinese) |
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Uncertainty-aware Probabilistic Graph Neural Networks for Road-level Traffic Crash Prediction
Xiaowei Gao,
Xinke Jiang,
James Haworth,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Shenhao Wang,
Huanfa Chen
[AAP] Accident Analysis & Prevention 2024
arXiv |
code |
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Uncertainty Quantification of Sparse Travel Demand Prediction with Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks
Dingyi Zhuang,
Shenhao Wang,
Haris N Koutsopoulos,
Jinhua Zhao
[KDD 2022] International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2022 Oral presentation
arXiv |
code |
slides |
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Uncertainty Quantification via Spatial-Temporal Tweedie Model for Zero-inflated and Long-tail Travel Demand Prediction
Xinke Jiang,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Xianghui Zhang,
Hao Chen,
Jiayuan Luo,
Xiaowei Gao,
[CIKM 2023] Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2023
arXiv |
code |
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SAUC: Sparsity-Aware Uncertainty Calibration for Spatiotemporal Prediction with Graph Neural Networks
Dingyi Zhuang,
Yuheng Bu,
Guang Wang,
Shenhao Wang,
Jinhua Zhao
[SIGSPATIAL 2024] ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2024Oral presentation
Also at Temporal Graph Learning Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight talk
arXiv |
code |
slideslive |
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Large Language Models for Travel Behavior Prediction
Baichuan Mo,
Hanyong Xu,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Ruoyun Ma,
Xiaotong Guo,
Jinhua Zhao
[TRC-30 2024] the 30th Anniversary of Transportation Research: Part C 2024
arXiv |
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Inductive Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Kriging
Yuankai Wu,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Aurelie Labbe,
Lijun Sun
[AAAI 2021] Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2021
arXiv |
code |
Youtube |
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The Braess's Paradox in Dynamic Traffic
Dingyi Zhuang,
Yuzhu Huang,
Vindula Jayawardana,
Jinhua Zhao,
Dajiang Suo,
Cathy Wu
[ITSC 2022] IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference 2022
arXiv |
slides |
video |
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From Compound Word to Metropolitan Station: Semantic Similarity Analysis using Smart Card Data
Dingyi Zhuang,
Siyu Hao,
Lee Der-Horng,
Jiangang Jin
[TR-Part C] Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 2020
paper |
slides |
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Uncertainty Quantification of Spatiotemporal Travel Demand with Probabilistic Graph Neural Networks
Qingyi Wang,
Shenhao Wang,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Haris N Koutsopoulos,
Jinhua Zhao
[T-ITS] IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2024
arXiv |
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Sparkle: Mastering Basic Spatial Capabilities in Vision Language Models Elicits Generalization to Composite Spatial Reasoning
Yihong Tang*,
Ao Qu*,
Zhaokai Wang*,
Dingyi Zhuang*,
Zhaofeng Wu,
Wei Ma,
Shenhao Wang,
Yunhan Zheng,
Zhan Zhao,
Jinhua Zhao
Under review 2025
arXiv |
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Virtual Nodes Improve Long-term Traffic Prediction
Xiaoyang Cao,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Jinhua Zhao,
Shenhao Wang
Under review 2025
arXiv |
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Fairness-enhancing Deep Learning for Ride-hailing Demand Prediction
Yunhan Zheng,
Qingyi Wang,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Shenhao Wang,
Jinhua Zhao
[OJITS] IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 2023
arXiv |
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A Universal Dramework of Spatiotemporal Bias Block for Long-term Traffic Forecasting
Fuqiang Liu,
Jiawei Wang,
Jingbo Tian,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Luis Miranda-Moreno,
Lijun Sun
[T-ITS] IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2022
paper |
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Low-rank Hankel Tensor Completion for Traffic Speed Estimation
Xudong Wang,
Yuankai Wu,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Lijun Sun
[T-ITS] IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2021
arXiv |
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Spatial Aggregation and Temporal Convolution Networks for Real-time Kriging
Yuankai Wu,
Dingyi Zhuang,
Mengying Lei,
Aurelie Labbe,
Lijun Sun
[arXiv] Preprint 2021
arXiv |
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Advancing Transportation Mode Share Analysis with Built Environment: Deep Hybrid Models with Urban Road Network
Dingyi Zhuang,
Qingyi Wang,
Yunhan Zheng,
Xiaotong Guo,
Shenhao Wang,
Haris N Koutsopoulos,
Jinhua Zhao
Under review 2024
arXiv |
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Understanding the Bike Sharing Travel Demand and Cycle Lane Network: The Case of Shanghai
Dingyi Zhuang,
Jiangang Jin,
Yifan Shen,
Wei Jiang
[IJST] International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2021
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Best Paper Award, KDD Urban Computing Workshop (2024)
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CIRRELT Excellence Scholarships (Master's), CIRRELT (2020)
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Graduate Excellence Fellowship, McGill University (2019 & 2021)
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Hsue-shen Tsien Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019)
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Chungtsung Scholarship, Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Undergraduate Research Endowment (2017)
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First Prize (1/135), Chinese Big Data Innovation Application and Modeling Contest (2017)
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Eleme Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2016 & 2017)
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Excellent Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2016)
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Conference Reviewer
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ICLR, TRB, IEEE ITSC
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Journal Reviewer
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IEEE T-IST, IEEE IoT, IET ITS, JCGS, IEEE TNNLs, TR-Part C, Journal of Cleaner Production, Neurocomputing, TGEI, TGSI, International Journal of Digital Earth, Geocarto International, Geo-spatial Information Science, Transportation Research Record
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Organizing
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MIT JTL Urban Mobility Lab Seminar
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Graduate Students |
Yifeng Liu (MIT, 2024)
Yunlin Li (University of Oxford, 2025)
Chonghe Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024 → Ph.D. at MIT)
Yihong Tang (University of Hong Kong, 2024 → Ph.D. at McGill University)
Zepu Wang (UPenn, 2023 → Ph.D. at University of Washington)
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Undergraduate Students |
Xiaoyang Cao (Tsinghua, 2024 → Ph.D. at MIT)
Xiaoyu Yan (Zhejiang University, 2023 → Ph.D. at Northwestern University)
Peisen Li (Tsinghua University, 2023 → Ph.D. at University of Michigan)
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