Dr Zhiyuan Lin
- Position: Lecturer in Railway Operations and Control
- Areas of expertise: Transport scheduling, especially train timetabling, rolling stock and crew scheduling; Operational Research and network flow optimisation; Efficient solution approaches for integer linear programs.
- Email: Z.Lin@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 7410
- Location: 2.01 ITS
Profile
I have a background in Operational Research (OR), Computational Optimisation and Computer Science. Before joining ITS, Leeds, I was a research fellow at School of Computing, University of Leeds, and then a lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
I belong to the Spatial Modelling and Dynamics (SMaD) group of ITS.
I’m a memeber of the Operational Research Society (https://www.theorsociety.com/) and a committe member of its Yorkshire and Humberside group. I’m a honorary member of the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre, University of Manchester.
Responsibilities
- Module lead of TRAN5510M Railway Operations and Management
Research interests
Key research interest:
- Railway scheduling, including timetabling, rolling stock scheduling and crew scheduling
- The application of Operational Research (OR) and optimisation (esp. combinatorial optimisation, multiobjective optimisation and network flow problems) in transport planning, scheduling, routing and operations
- Advanced algorithms for integer linear programming, including both exact and meta/hybrid heuristic methods
- Machine learning based approaches for transport optimisation
Researh projects:
- EPSRC-IAA “Train unit capacity strengthening” (2023-2024) – PI
- National Highways: “Tipping points of delays” (2023-2024) – PI
- N8 Network for Innovative Sustainable Transportation Co-Simulation (NIST-CS) (2023-2024) – PI
- Innovate UK / RSSB “Assisted Very Short-Term Planning” (2020-2023) – Co-I
- EU Horizon 2020 “RAILS (Roadmaps for A.I. Integration in the Rail Sector)” (2019-2023) – Co-I
- Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain: Mathematical Optimization in Network Location and Planning Problems (2020-2022) – Co-applicant
- EU and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government: Structural analysis of mathematical models for optimization in location and transportation planning (2016-2019) – Co-applicant
PhD student supervision:
- Li Lei (School of Computing, completed)
- Ruifan Tang (2020 – )
- Jinyi Pan (2022 – )
- Youxin Lin (School of Civil Engineering, 2022 – )
- Chuhan Yin (2023 – )
- Yunjian Luo (2023 – )
Visiting PhDs/scholars:
- Enze Liu (2022 – 2023)
- Peiyang Wu (2022 – 2023)
- Fei Han (2022 – 2023)
- Xue Wu (2022 – 2023)
- Shaojie Jin (2023 – 2024)
- Bowen Nie (2023 – 2024)
Qualifications
- PhD Computer Science, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Professional memberships
- Member of the Operational Research Society (https://www.theorsociety.com/).
- Committee member of Yorkshire and Humberside OR Group of the Operational Research Society
- Honorary member of Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre, University of Manchester
Student education
- I presently teach modules:
- TRAN5510M Railway Operations & Management (module lead)
- TRAN5550M Railway Signalling and Control
- TRAN5020M Principles of Transport Modelling
- TRAN5181M Public Transport Planning and Management
- TRAN5912M Transport Integrated Project (TIP): Student mentor and area expert
- MSc student project supervisor and academic personal tutor
Research groups and institutes
- Spatial Modelling and Dynamics