Jinhua Zhao is the Professor of Cities and Transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prof. Zhao integrates behavioral and computational thinking to decarbonize the world’s mobility system. Prof. Zhao founded the MIT Mobility Initiative, coalescing the Institute’s efforts on transportation research, education, entrepreneurship, and engagement. He hosts the MIT Mobility Forum, highlighting transportation innovation from MIT and across the globe. Prof. Zhao directs the JTL Urban Mobility Lab and Transit Lab, leading long-term collaborations with transportation authorities and operators worldwide and enabling cross-culture learning between cities in North America, Asia and Europe. Prof. Zhao leads the program “Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S): How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Future of Learning” at the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). He is the co-founder and chief scientist for TRAM.Global, a mobility decarbonization venture.
BRISS: Boundary-aware Remote Sensing Images Semantic Segmentation Network with Multi-scale Fusion
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IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshop, 2026
2026
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yuexi Song (NUS), Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Shenhao Wang (UF) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Interpretable Time Series Imputation via Hankel Lifting and Robust Regularization
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TSL 2026
2026
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Conference
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Accepted
Authors:
Chonghe Jiang (MIT), Xinyu Chen (UCF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
2026
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Journal
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Published
Authors:
Yuhang Wang (UCAS), Heye Huang (SMART), Zhenhua Xu (Tsinghua University), Kailai Sun (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Measuring Representational and Allocational Harms in LLM Career Recommendations
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Venue:
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Talent and Management Computing
2026
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Conference
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Accepted
Authors:
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Digital Distortions: Auditing Bias in LLM-based Career Recommendations
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IEEE Intelligent Systems
2026
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Journal
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Accepted
Authors:
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Qishen Zhou (ZJU), Shenhao Wang (UF), Frank Pasquale (Cornell Tech & Cornell Law), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
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Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Heye Huang (SMART), Can Rong (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 151
2026
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Journal
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Published
Authors:
Donghang Li (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Building and Environment 2025
2025
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Journal
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Published
Authors:
Mingyi He (MIT), Yuebing Lian (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Qingyi Wang (MIT), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), Li Tian (Tsinghua University), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Nature Cities
2024
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Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Nicholas S. Caros (MIT) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Leveraging the Spatial Hierarchy: Coarse-to-fine Trajectory Generation via Cascaded Hybrid Diffusion
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Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Baoshen Guo (SMART), Zhiqing Hong (HKUST), Junyi Li (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
NeurIPS 2025 ScaleOPT workshop
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Minwei Kong (SMART), Ao Qu (MIT), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Wenbin Ouyang (MIT), Chonghe Jiang (MIT), Han Zheng (MIT), Yining Ma (MIT), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), Yuhan Tang (MIT), Junyi Li (SMART), Hai Wang (SMU), Cathy Wu (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
KDD UrbComp Workshop, 2025
2025
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Conference
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Published
Authors:
Yihong Tang (McGill), Ao Qu (MIT), Xujing Yu (HKU), Weipeng Deng (HKU), Jun Ma (HKU), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Lijun Sun (McGill University)
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Venue:
Elsevier
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Meilin Yang (UMICH), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Xiaotong Guo (MIT) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
European Journal of Operational Research, 2025
2025
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Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Baichuan Mo (Tsinghua University), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Ruoyun Ma (Stanford University), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
ICLR 2026 (Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in Large Language Models (MTI-LLM), in conjunction with NeurIPS 2025)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zijian Zhou (SMART), Ao Qu (MIT), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Sunghwan Kim (Yonsei University), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS), Paul Pu Liang (MIT)
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Venue:
Nature Sustainability 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Juanjuan Zhao (CNU), Baichuan Mo (MIT), Nicholas S. Caros (MIT), and Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Bankoku Shinryokan, Nago, Okinawa, Japan
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Dingtong Yang (SMART), Yubin Liu (SMART), Hai Wang (SMU), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
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Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xinyu Chen (MIT), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), HanQin Cai (University of Central Florida), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xinyu Chen (MIT), HanQin Cai (University of Central Florida), Fuqiang Liu (McGill University), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-25)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), Chonghe Jiang (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Nature Cities
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Lun Liu (PKU), Jim Aloisi (MIT) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (Elsevier)
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Shenhao Wang (UF), Baichuan Mo (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Stephane Hess (Leeds), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Nature Communications
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Yunhan Zheng (SMART), David Keith(University of Melbourne) Shenhao Wang (UF), Mi Diao (Tongji), and Jinhua Zhao (MIT)