Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Constantinos Antoniou

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Biography: The research area of Constantinos Antoniou (b. 1973) is transportation systems engineering. His research focuses primarily on the modelling and simulation of transportation systems, intelligent transport systems (ITS), the calibration and optimization of applications, and the application of behavioral economics in transport, road safety and sustainable transport systems.

Professor Antoniou holds a degree in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece (1995) as well as a master’s degree in transportation (1997) and a PhD in transportation systems (2004) from MIT (USA). He has authored more than 500 scientific publications, including more than 180 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals, 270 published in international conference proceedings, three books and 30 book chapters. He is a member of several scientific organizations and committees, including the Transport Research Board and the Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV). Professor Antoniou is Associate Editor of the journal Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice and Deputy Editor in Chief of IET ITS, and sits on the editorial boards of various international journals such as Transportation Research - Part C: Emerging Technologies, Accident Analysis and Prevention and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 

Speech Title: Preparing for battery electric bus public transport: modeling tools and implementation decision making support

Keynote Speaker Ⅱ

Prof. Hongming Xu

Tsinghua University, China

University of Birmingham, UK

Biography: Hongming Xu is Professor of Energy and Automotive Engineering and Head of the Vehicle Technology Research Centre. He is Director of Birmingham CASE Automotive Research and Education Centre.

He has 6 years of industrial experience with Jaguar Land Rover and Premier Automotive Group of Ford. He researches synergies between fuel, propulsion and after-treatment technologies for cleaner road vehicles.

He has 450+ publications (including 200+ refereed journal papers and 200+ conference publications) in engine flow, combustion, emissions, transient operation control and hybrid electric powertrain development involving both experimental and modelling studies. His current main research area is new fuels and electrified powertrains with artificial intelligence based control and optimisation.

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