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. I have secured funding from HK RGC ECS (PI) and TRS (Co-PI), and contributed to projects funded by USDOT, NIH, NSF, FHWA, USDOE, the City of Stockholm, and Toyota Woven City. I serve as a reviewer for over 60 journals including Nature Cities, Nature Communications, Transportation Research Part A-E, among others.

News

• [06/2026] Welcoming four new Ph.D. students joining our group in Summer/Fall 2026!
• [06/2026] Our project on AI-enhanced human mobility modeling is funded by the HK RGC Early Career Scheme!
• [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] Our project on agentic AI activity-based modeling is funded by the CityUHK Startup Grant!
• [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.