Greetings! I’m Songhua Hu (胡松华), an Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT Senseable City Lab. I received my Ph.D. (2023) from the University of Maryland, College Park, M.S. (2019) from Tongji University (同济大学), and B.S. (2016) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学启明学院).
My research leverages crowdsourced data mining, spatiotemporal AI, network analysis, and advanced statistics to advance smart, sustainable, resilient, and equitable mobility systems. I have published over 40 journal papers (21 first-authored) in Nature Sustainability, PNAS, Transportation Research Part A/C/D/E, etc., and have contributed to research projects funded by USDOT, NIH, NSF, FHWA, and USDOE. I serve as a reviewer for over 60 journals including Nature Cities, Nature Communications, Transportation Research Part A-E, among others.
News
- [04/2026] Our research featured on MIT NEWS and NS Research Briefing!
- [04/2026] New paper in Nature Sustainability! See the visualization HERE.
- [09/2025] Joined CityUHK as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!
- [05/2025] Invited job talk at UCL CEGE on Agentic AI in Human Mobility Simulation!
- [02/2025] Invited job talk at Princeton University ACEE!
- [01/2025] Invited job talk at University of Alberta CEE!
- [10/2023] Received COTA Best Dissertation Award!
- [05/2023] Received UMD CEE Best Doctoral Research Award!
Publications
Over 40 journal papers (21 First-Author, 4 Corresponding) including Nature Sustainability (1, 1F 1C), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1), TR Part A (5, 3F), TR Part C (5, 3F), TR Part D (3, 3F), TR Part E (1), Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (3, 1F), Journal of Transport Geography (3, 2F), Cities (1, 1F), Sustainable Cities and Society (1, 1F), Journal of the Royal Society Interface (1), Journal of Planning Education and Research (1), among others. >30 presentations at TRB, IEEE ITSC, NetMob, INFORMS, AGU, etc.