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Yunhan Zheng

Assistant Professor at Peking University

Dr. Yunhan Zheng is a former Postdoctoral Associate at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).


She earned her PhD in Transportation from MIT in 2024, and previously obtained dual Master’s degrees in City Planning and Transportation from MIT in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Jinhua Zhao. She also holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Urban Management and Economics from Peking University.


Dr. Zheng join Peking University as an Assistant Professor in early 2026.

Quantifying the nonlinear causal impact of commute time on US remote work

Year of Publication:

Venue:

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 151

2026

Publication Type:

Journal

Status: 

Published

Authors:

Donghang Li (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)

Human-guided urban form generation using multimodal diffusion models

Year of Publication:

Venue:

Building and Environment 2025

2025

Publication Type:

Journal

Status: 

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)

Impacts of the built environment on remote work choices and preferences

Year of Publication:

Venue:

Elsevier

2025

Publication Type:

Journal

Status: 

Published

Authors:

Meilin Yang (UMICH), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Xiaotong Guo (MIT) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)

Robust Binary and Multinomial Logit Models for Classification with Data Uncertainties

Year of Publication:

Venue:

European Journal of Operational Research, 2025

2025

Publication Type:

Journal

Status: 

Published

Authors:

Baichuan Mo (Tsinghua University), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Ruoyun Ma (Stanford University), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)

GETS: Ensemble Temperature Scaling for Calibration in Graph Neural Networks

Year of Publication:

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)

Impacts of remote work on vehicle miles traveled and transit ridership in the USA

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)

Comparing hundreds of machine learning classifiers and discrete choice models in predicting travel behavior: an empirical benchmark

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)

Effects of electric vehicle charging stations on the economic vitality of local businesses

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)

Infrequent activities predict economic outcomes in major American cities

Year of Publication:

Venue:

Nature Cities

2024

Publication Type:

Journal

Status: 

Published

Authors:

Shenhao Wang (UF), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Guang Wang (MIT), Takahiro Yabe (MIT), Esteban Moro (MIT), Alex "Sandy" Pentland (MIT)

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