Chenfeng Xiong is an assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University, and an M.S degree in Civil Engineering, an M.A in Economics and a Ph.D in Transportation Engineering, from the University of Maryland. Chenfeng’s areas of interest include, transportation big data, human mobility and travel behavior modeling, transportation economics, carbon neutralization, large-scale agent-based analysis modeling and simulation (AMS). As a researcher, Chenfeng has published over 80 peer reviewed articles.

Dr. Xiong also leads one of the INFORM Africa pilot projects and currently serves as the Chairperson for the DSI-Africa steering committee.