Shanghai, China; College of Transportation; advisor: Prof. Chi Xie
Tongji University
M.Sc.(Eng.) in Vehicle Operation Engineering
Shanghai, China; Institute of Rail Transit
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
B.Eng. in Internet of Things Engineering
Chengdu, China; School of Information and Communication Engineering
Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris
Visiting Undergraduate Student Awarded by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Paris, France
National University of Kaohsiung
Exchange Student
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China; Department of Electrical Engineering
Selected publications
Journal articles
Chi Xie, Rusi Wang, Dianlei Wang, Bo Zou, Xiaowen Fu, Xiqun Chen, and Qing-Chang Lu. Incorporating revenue loss and congestion cost into rail freight subsidy design: Lessons learned from the China-Europe freight transportation network. Transport Policy, 174:103819, 2025. [DOI]
Conference papers
Rusi Wang and Chi Xie. A convex programming model for dynamic ridesharing user equilibrium. Accepted for presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 10–14 January 2027. Paper No. TRBAM-27-06071.
Rusi Wang, Chi Xie, Bo Zou, and Xiaowen Fu. Mitigating revenue loss and congestion surcharge by rail freight subsidy in a multimodal multicommodity freight transportation market. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 11–15 January 2026. Paper No. TRBAM-26-04956. [Link]
Rusi Wang and Chi Xie. A Nesterov-style convex programming model for dynamic user equilibrium with maximum entropy selection. Working paper; planned journal submission.
Rusi Wang and Chi Xie. A convex programming model for dynamic user equilibrium based on Nesterov's network equilibrium model. Working paper; planned conference submission.
Work in progress
Rusi Wang and Chi Xie. Dynamic equilibrium in multimodal networks with carpooling, autonomous taxis, and public transit. Work in progress.
Rusi Wang and Chi Xie. Second-best congestion pricing in dynamic traffic networks: A bilevel optimization model with a convex dynamic user equilibrium formulation. Work in progress.
Research experience
Visiting undergraduate research, LISITE Lab, Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris
Studied melanoma classification with convolutional neural networks trained on dermoscopic images from the ISIC database, under Dr. Ercüment Yılmaz and Prof. Maria Trocan.
Projects
Loopae, software for transportation network equilibrium analysis
Lead developer of Loopae, an interactive environment for computing, analyzing, and visualizing transportation network equilibria; continuing to refine and extend its capabilities.
Presentation
A convex programming model for dynamic ridesharing user equilibrium. Upcoming: accepted for presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 10–14 January 2027.
Scholarships and awards
Chuangmai Scholarship, Tongji University
Excellent Student Scholarship, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Scholarship Under the State Scholarship Fund, China Scholarship Council
Honorable Mention, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling
First Prize, Sichuan Provincial Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest