We are pleased to share that PhD Candidate Shuangxia Bai, representing the research team led by Prof. Lishuai Li, presented their recent work at the US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium (ATRDS) 2025, held from June 24–27 in Prague, Czech Republic. The team’s paper, titled“An Evaluation of UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: From Pre-Planned… Read more: ✈️ Low Altitude Research Showcase at ATRDS 2025 in Prague
Dr. Xinting Zhu has been awarded the JC STEM Early Career Research Fellowship for Translation and Application in the inaugural 2024 cohort. Established in 2024 by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, this fellowship provides comprehensive support and a unique opportunity to help early career researchers develop their research and innovation careers, expand their… Read more: Dr. Xinting Zhu Receives Prestigious JC STEM Early Career Research Fellowship (2024 Inaugural Cohort)
05/2025: We’re proud to share that two projects from our group — 🔹 ECO-AI: Energy and Carbon Optimization with AI for Industry 🔹 CitySky-Plan: AI Algorithms for Drone Delivery Routes and Traffic Management — were selected to participate in the HK Tech 300 Exhibition, held from May 23 to 24. The projects were represented by… Read more: Showcasing Innovation at HK Tech 300
05/2025: We’re excited to share that members of our Industrial AI Group — Dr. Xinyu He, Mr. Yongchao Ye, and Dr. Lujie Liu — were invited to participate in the exhibition hosted by the Hong Kong X Foundation from May 22 to 24. Established by HongShan, the Hong Kong X Foundation is dedicated to nurturing… Read more: Industrial AI Team at Hong Kong X Foundation Exhibition
04/2025: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Dr. Xinyu He, Mr. Yongchao Ye, and Dr. Lujie Liu on winning a Silver Medal for the project “ECO-AI: Energy and Carbon Optimization with AI for Industry” at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. This innovative project leverages artificial intelligence to optimize energy use and reduce carbon emissions… Read more: 50th IEIG Silver Award – ECO-AI: Energy and Carbon Optimization with AI for Industry
We welcome Dr. Chenming Li to Professor Li’s research group as a new postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Li completed his Ph.D. at Hefei University of Technology, China, and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering. His Research Interests are Robust control, Game theory, Fuzzy theory, Articial swarm system. We look forward to Dr.… Read more: Welcome Dr. Chenming Li
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Yang Gao to Professor Li’s research group as a new postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Gao recently completed his Ph.D. at The University of Sydney, Australia, where he contributed to Travel time reliability, traffic flow modeling and simulation, and traffic data analysis. We look forward to the fresh perspectives and new… Read more: Welcome Dr. Yang Gao!
10/12/24 Join Dr. Wei Sun, Senior Research Scientist at IBM, to learn how new AI tools are helping businesses make better decisions using data. Highlights: Discover how AI is shaping the future of smarter decision-making! ABSTRACT With the abundance of data available today, many enterprises are eager to adopt data-driven prescriptive analytics to improve decision-making.… Read more: Guest Speaker Seminar at CityUHK – Counterfactual Policy Learning
On October 20-23, the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) led by Bruno Santos (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), Lishuai Li (City University of Hong Kong), and Nuno Ribeiro (Singapore University of Technology and Design) held a series of engaging activities at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, USA. The events included: AAS Business Meeting, AAS Dinner,… Read more: Highlights from the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024
09/2024: Our research group participated in two events: the Conference on Emerging Technologies in Transportation Systems (TRC-30) and the 5th Symposium on the Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS). We presented two papers: “A Study of UTM ConOps for Drone Delivery: Route Network Design & 4D Trajectory Planning,” co-authored by Xinyu He, Zewen Wang, Bangyan Zhang,… Read more: Attendance at TRC-30 & MFTS
08/2024: Our research group participated in the 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2024). We presented our paper, “Data-Driven Approach for Satellite SADA System Health Monitoring with Limited Data” co-authored by Xinting Zhu, Lishuai Li, Yanfang Mo, Yining Dong, Xuejin Shen, Xiaoyu Chen and S. Joe Qin.
08/2024: Prof. Lishuai Li has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). Established in 1866, RAeS is the world’s oldest professional body dedicated to the global aerospace community. With over 25,000 members, the Society has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace, promoting the highest professional standards and providing a central… Read more: Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
07/2024: Prof. Lishuai Li was invited to attend the 8th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering 2024 (ICASSE) and gave an invited speech on “UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: Algorithms for Air Corridors Design and Trajectory Planning,” News article about the event.
07/2024: Our research group participated in the 11th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT). We presented our paper, “Distributionally Robust Ground Delay Programs with Learning-Driven Airport Capacity Predictions,” co-authored by Haochen Wu and Max Z. Li from the University of Michigan, Shuchang Li, Xinting Zhu, Ying Zhou, and Lishuai Li from CityU.
06/2024: Congratulations to the latest PhD graduates from our group at City University of Hong Kong (CityU HK). We are proud to announce that Dr. Xinyu He, Dr. Weizun Zhao, and Dr. Yiren Liu have successfully completed their PhD programs. Best wishes for their new chapter!
05/2024: The Sing Tao Daily (Chinese: 星島日報) features our Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) research and the Silver Award received at 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG). The coverage is available here.
05/2024: Congratulations to Yongchao Ye and Xinting Zhu! Their team Go4Aero ranked 6th (out of 126 teams globally) in the MIT ARCLab Prize for AI Innovation in Space 2024, and is awarded with a cash prize and a certificate of excellence. In this challenge, participants submit algorithms that use AI to map out the on-orbit… Read more: 6th Place in MIT ARCLab Prize for AI Innovation in Space 2024
04/2024: Congratulations to Lishuai Li, Xinting Zhu, Weizun Zhao, Florent Charruad, Yongchao Ye, and Shuchang Li on winning a Silver Medal for the project “ClusterAD: Method of Presenting Aircraft Flight Data and Associated Graphical User Interface.” at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. Read more about this achievement: University News, School News, CityU Scholars.
04/2024: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Xinyu He, Fang He, and Zhang Lei on winning a Silver Medal for the project “CitySkyPlan: AI Algorithms for Drone Delivery Routes and Traffic Management.” at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. Read more about this achievement: University News, School News, CityU Scholars.
03/2024: Congratulations to Weizun Zhao on successfully passed his PhD thesis oral examination! This accomplishment reflects his hard work and dedication. Best wishes for his new chapter!
03/2024: Congratulations to Dr. Xinyu He and the co-authors for the acceptance of our recent paper “A distributed route network planning method with congestion pricing for drone delivery services in cities” on Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 160, March 2024, 104536. [PDF]
02/2024: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li & Fang He on being granted the US patent “Grid Based Path Search Method for UAV Delivery Operations in Urban Environments“. (2024) US Patent No. US 11,915,599, Priority No. 17/468,615. (CityU Link) [PDF]
12/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Xinyu He (supervised by Prof. Lishuai Li) and Junyan Su (supervised by Prof. Minghua Chen) on achieving the 2nd Place Award for the project “LEAP: Low-altitude Express AI Pilot” at the 1st Low-Altitude Economy Flight Management Challenge. Read more about this achievement on the School News on Jan 18, 2024.
12/2023: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Weizun Zhao, Florent Charruaud & our research team on winning a Gold with Congratulations of Jury Award for our invention on flight data analysis “ClusterAD: Method of Presenting Flight Data of an Aircraft and a Graphical User Interface for Use with the Same” at the 3rd Asia Exhibition of… Read more: Regional invention exhibition award
12/2023: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Dr. Xinyu He, Fang He & our research team on winning a Silver Award for the invention “CitySkyPlan: AI Algorithms for Drone Delivery Routes and Traffic Management” at the 3rd Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions (AEII) in Hong Kong. Read more about this achievement on the University News… Read more: Regional invention exhibition award
11/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Xinting Zhu achieved a Merit Award for the project “Traffic Flow Prediction Based on ADS-B Data” and the 2nd Place Award for the project “Network and Data Security for Connected Intelligent Vehicles” in the 2023 China Intelligent Transportation Innovation Challenge. Read more about this achievement on the School News on Dec… Read more: National competition award
04/2025: Our paper “An Evaluation of UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: From Pre-Planned Air Corridors to Dynamic 4D Trajectories” has been accepted by ATRD Symposium 2025 Highlights 1 Developed and evaluated three UTM Concepts of Operations (ConOps A/B/C) for urban drone deliveries with varying airspace structures. 2 Established a multi-metric evaluation framework covering safety, business,… Read more: ATRD Symposium 2025 Paper Accepted – An Evaluation of UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: From Pre-Planned Air Corridors to Dynamic 4D Trajectories
04/2025: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Dr. Xinyu He, Mr. Yongchao Ye, and Dr. Lujie Liu on winning a Silver Medal for the project “ECO-AI: Energy and Carbon Optimization with AI for Industry” at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. This innovative project leverages artificial intelligence to optimize energy use and reduce carbon emissions… Read more: 50th IEIG Silver Award – ECO-AI: Energy and Carbon Optimization with AI for Industry
Date and time Tuesday, March 25 · 5 – 6:30pm HKT Location MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node1/F, Hong Kong Productivity Council 78 Tat Chee Avenue Hong Kong, KOW Register ABOUT THE TALK There has been an explosion of new aircraft configurations and operational concepts driven by the emergence of electrified aircraft systems and distributed electric… Read more: Distinguished Speaker Series at MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node – Professor R. John Hansman: New Electric and Hybrid Aircraft
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Venue: Room G7603, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityUHK (map) Please register online: Click Here About Speaker: Prof. R. John HANSMAN is the T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is the Director of the MIT International Center for Air Transportation. He conducts research… Read more: Distinguished Seminar Series at CityUHK – Professor R. John Hansman: Analysis of Operational Data to Improve the Safety, Efficiency and Sustainability of Air Transportation
We welcome Dr. Chenming Li to Professor Li’s research group as a new postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Li completed his Ph.D. at Hefei University of Technology, China, and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering. His Research Interests are Robust control, Game theory, Fuzzy theory, Articial swarm system. We look forward to Dr.… Read more: Welcome Dr. Chenming Li
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Yang Gao to Professor Li’s research group as a new postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Gao recently completed his Ph.D. at The University of Sydney, Australia, where he contributed to Travel time reliability, traffic flow modeling and simulation, and traffic data analysis. We look forward to the fresh perspectives and new… Read more: Welcome Dr. Yang Gao!
12/ 2024 Highlights Abstract Urban drone delivery, a rapidly evolving sector, holds the potential to enhance accessibility, address last-mile delivery issues, and alleviate ground traffic congestion in cities. Effective Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) is essential to scale drone delivery. A critical aspect of UTM involves planning a city-wide network with spatially-separated air corridors… Read more: New paper released – Air Corridor Planning for Urban Drone Delivery: Complexity Analysis and Comparison via Multi-Commodity Network Flow and Graph Search
10/12/24 Join Dr. Wei Sun, Senior Research Scientist at IBM, to learn how new AI tools are helping businesses make better decisions using data. Highlights: Discover how AI is shaping the future of smarter decision-making! ABSTRACT With the abundance of data available today, many enterprises are eager to adopt data-driven prescriptive analytics to improve decision-making.… Read more: Guest Speaker Seminar at CityUHK – Counterfactual Policy Learning
On October 20-23, the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) led by Bruno Santos (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), Lishuai Li (City University of Hong Kong), and Nuno Ribeiro (Singapore University of Technology and Design) held a series of engaging activities at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, USA. The events included: AAS Business Meeting, AAS Dinner,… Read more: Highlights from the Aviation Applications Section (AAS) at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024
09/2024: Our research group participated in two events: the Conference on Emerging Technologies in Transportation Systems (TRC-30) and the 5th Symposium on the Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS). We presented two papers: “A Study of UTM ConOps for Drone Delivery: Route Network Design & 4D Trajectory Planning,” co-authored by Xinyu He, Zewen Wang, Bangyan Zhang,… Read more: Attendance at TRC-30 & MFTS
08/2024: Our research group participated in the 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2024). We presented our paper, “Data-Driven Approach for Satellite SADA System Health Monitoring with Limited Data” co-authored by Xinting Zhu, Lishuai Li, Yanfang Mo, Yining Dong, Xuejin Shen, Xiaoyu Chen and S. Joe Qin.
08/2024: Prof. Lishuai Li has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). Established in 1866, RAeS is the world’s oldest professional body dedicated to the global aerospace community. With over 25,000 members, the Society has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace, promoting the highest professional standards and providing a central… Read more: Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
07/2024: Prof. Lishuai Li was invited to attend the 8th International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering 2024 (ICASSE) and gave an invited speech on “UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: Algorithms for Air Corridors Design and Trajectory Planning,” News article about the event.
07/2024: Our research group participated in the 11th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT). We presented our paper, “Distributionally Robust Ground Delay Programs with Learning-Driven Airport Capacity Predictions,” co-authored by Haochen Wu and Max Z. Li from the University of Michigan, Shuchang Li, Xinting Zhu, Ying Zhou, and Lishuai Li from CityU.
06/2024: Congratulations to the latest PhD graduates from our group at City University of Hong Kong (CityU HK). We are proud to announce that Dr. Xinyu He, Dr. Weizun Zhao, and Dr. Yiren Liu have successfully completed their PhD programs. Best wishes for their new chapter!
05/2024: The Sing Tao Daily (Chinese: 星島日報) features our Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) research and the Silver Award received at 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG). The coverage is available here.
05/2024: Congratulations to Yongchao Ye and Xinting Zhu! Their team Go4Aero ranked 6th (out of 126 teams globally) in the MIT ARCLab Prize for AI Innovation in Space 2024, and is awarded with a cash prize and a certificate of excellence. In this challenge, participants submit algorithms that use AI to map out the on-orbit… Read more: 6th Place in MIT ARCLab Prize for AI Innovation in Space 2024
04/2024: Congratulations to Lishuai Li, Xinting Zhu, Weizun Zhao, Florent Charruad, Yongchao Ye, and Shuchang Li on winning a Silver Medal for the project “ClusterAD: Method of Presenting Aircraft Flight Data and Associated Graphical User Interface.” at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. Read more about this achievement: University News, School News, CityU Scholars.
04/2024: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Xinyu He, Fang He, and Zhang Lei on winning a Silver Medal for the project “CitySkyPlan: AI Algorithms for Drone Delivery Routes and Traffic Management.” at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva. Read more about this achievement: University News, School News, CityU Scholars.
03/2024: Congratulations to Weizun Zhao on successfully passed his PhD thesis oral examination! This accomplishment reflects his hard work and dedication. Best wishes for his new chapter!
03/2024: Congratulations to Dr. Xinyu He and the co-authors for the acceptance of our recent paper “A distributed route network planning method with congestion pricing for drone delivery services in cities” on Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 160, March 2024, 104536. [PDF]
02/2024: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li & Fang He on being granted the US patent “Grid Based Path Search Method for UAV Delivery Operations in Urban Environments“. (2024) US Patent No. US 11,915,599, Priority No. 17/468,615. (CityU Link) [PDF]
12/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Xinyu He (supervised by Prof. Lishuai Li) and Junyan Su (supervised by Prof. Minghua Chen) on achieving the 2nd Place Award for the project “LEAP: Low-altitude Express AI Pilot” at the 1st Low-Altitude Economy Flight Management Challenge. Read more about this achievement on the School News on Jan 18, 2024.
12/2023: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Weizun Zhao, Florent Charruaud & our research team on winning a Gold with Congratulations of Jury Award for our invention on flight data analysis “ClusterAD: Method of Presenting Flight Data of an Aircraft and a Graphical User Interface for Use with the Same” at the 3rd Asia Exhibition of… Read more: Regional invention exhibition award
12/2023: Congratulations to Prof. Lishuai Li, Dr. Xinyu He, Fang He & our research team on winning a Silver Award for the invention “CitySkyPlan: AI Algorithms for Drone Delivery Routes and Traffic Management” at the 3rd Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions (AEII) in Hong Kong. Read more about this achievement on the University News… Read more: Regional invention exhibition award
11/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Xinting Zhu achieved a Merit Award for the project “Traffic Flow Prediction Based on ADS-B Data” and the 2nd Place Award for the project “Network and Data Security for Connected Intelligent Vehicles” in the 2023 China Intelligent Transportation Innovation Challenge. Read more about this achievement on the School News on Dec… Read more: National competition award
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