Academic Staff

Ang Li

Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); M.Sc. (UC Berkeley); B.Eng. (Tongji)

Bio

Dr Ang Li is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to this, Dr Li received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2023 and 2018 respectively, and her BEng in Transportation Engineering at Tongji University in 2017.  Dr Li was a researcher in the National Center of Excellence in Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR) in close collaboration with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Her research areas focus on traffic management in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and legacy aviation; multi-modal transportation systems. She has received the Best Paper Awards at ICNS. Dr. Li is the recipient of the Robert Wadell Endowed Fellowship for Engineering Innovation. She is also selected as Rising Star in CEE by Carnegie Mellon University.

Areas of specialization

• Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM)
• Regional Air Traffic Management (ATM)
• UAV Path Planning, Conflict Detection and Resolution (CD&R)
• Multi-modal Transportation Systems
• Last-mile Urban Parcel Delivery
• Mechanism Design and Resource Allocation
• Congestion Management
• Transportation Economics
• Large-scale Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, Machine Learning, Network Science, Data Analytic

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=JUXBYu0AAAAJ

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ang-Li-137

Prospective Students

• PhD Students - I am interested in working with self-motivated candidates with background in Aviation, Transportation, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics or other relevant areas. Please send me your CV with GPA, English test scores (IELTS/TOEFL), list of publications (if any), names and contacts of at least two referees, and a paragraph describing your past research experiences (if any), your research interests and goals, as well as mentorship/teaching experiences (if any).
• Postdoc, Visiting Students and Scholars – I welcome the opportunity to work with you of mutual research interests, please send me your CV including your education qualifications and list of publications (if any).

Academic awards

• The Robert Wadell Endowed Fellowship for Engineering Innovation
• Selected as Rising Stars in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Academic Career by Carnegie Mellon University
• Best Student Paper Award at The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS) 

Selected publications

• Li, Ang, Hansen, M., Zou, B., (2022) Traffic Management and Resource Allocation for UAV-based Parcel Delivery in Low-altitude Urban Space. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 143, 103808.
• Griswold. J.B., Medury, A., Schneider, R.J., Amos, D., Li, Ang, Grembek, O., (2 019) A Pedestrian Exposure Model for the California State Highway System. Transportation Research Record. 2019;2673(4):941-950.
• Sun, X., Wandelt, S., Hansen, M., Li, Ang, (2017) Multiple airport regions based on inter-airport temporal distances. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Volume 101, 2017, pp.84-98, ISSN 1366-5545.
• Li, Ang, Hansen, M., Zou, B., (2023) UAV Scheduling Strategies in Multi-modal Last-Mile Urban Parcel Delivery. 15th Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, 2023.
• Li, Ang, Hansen, M., (2022) Scenario-based Strategic Flight Reassignment in Multiple Airport Regions. International Conference for Research in Air Transportation, 2022.
• Li, Ang, Hansen, M., (2021) Using Flight Shifting to Mitigate Delay in Multiple Airport Regions. Integrated Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, 2021.
• Li, Ang, Hansen, M., (2020) Obstacles Clustering and Path Optimization for Drone Routing. International Conference for Research in Air Transportation, 2020.

Community service

Reviewer:

• Transportation Research Part Series;
• Journal of Air Transportation;
• Transportation Research Record;
• Transportation Research Board;
• IEEE Intelligent Vehicles;
• International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (IJTST);
• COTA International Conference for Transportation Professionals (CICTP).