Zhenliang Ma

I am an Associate Professor and Docent in Transportation Science, with specialization in Transportation Systems, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I lead the Mobility Informatics Lab and am a Faculty Member of Digital Futures and the Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL).

My research focuses onMobility Informatics—the integration of data, artificial intelligence, and system modelling to understand and manage complex transportation systems. My broader research goal is to develop computational approaches that support more efficient, resilient, and sustainable mobility.

My research spans three interconnected areas:public transport and mobility data analytics, including service reliability, passenger demand, crowding, and operations;digital twins and intelligent transport systems, integrating data, simulation, optimization, and control for transport system monitoring and management; andtransport planning and decision-making under uncertainty, including resilience, future mobility scenarios, population and demand representation, and data- and AI-supported decision making.

Before joining KTH, I worked at Monash University and the MIT Transit Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I received my Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Queensland.

I serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Journal of Public Transportation, and contribute to international research communities in transportation science, mobility data, and intelligent transport systems.