{"id":43,"date":"2025-01-31T22:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:20:39","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a transportation researcher focusing on <strong>Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)<\/strong>, <strong>user equilibrium<\/strong>, <strong>bilevel optimization<\/strong>, and <strong>algorithmic assignment<\/strong>. My work bridges <strong>pricing &amp; economics<\/strong> and <strong>data-driven operations<\/strong>, using tools such as <strong>variational inequalities<\/strong>, <strong>heuristics<\/strong>, and <strong>ML\/RL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently pursuing an <strong>M.Eng. in Transportation Planning and Management<\/strong> at <strong>Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU, 2023\u2013present)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BJTU<\/strong>, M.Eng., Transportation Planning &amp; Management, <strong>2023\u2013present<\/strong> \u2014 GPA <strong>85.0\/100<\/strong>.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>BJUT<\/strong>, B.Eng., Traffic Engineering, <strong>2019\u20132023<\/strong> \u2014 GPA <strong>88.8\/100<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<li><strong>BJUT<\/strong>, B.Eng., Computer Science, <strong>2020\u20132023<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications &amp; Talks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><em>Improved Heuristic to Reduce Oscillations in Transit Assignment on Refined Networks<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Accepted<\/strong>, <strong>Transportmetrica A: Transport Science<\/strong> (2026).\n\n    <div style='border:1px solid #ddd;border-radius:10px;padding:15px;margin:15px 0;box-shadow:0 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:#fff;'>\n      <h3 style='margin-top:0;'><a href='https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/?p=69' style='text-decoration:none;color:#333;'>Improved Heuristic to Reduce Oscillations in Transit Assignment on Refined Networks<\/a><\/h3>\n      <p style='color:#555;'>## 1. The Challenge:&hellip;<\/p>\n      <a href='https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/?p=69' style='display:inline-block;padding:8px 12px;background-color:#0073aa;color:white;border-radius:5px;text-decoration:none;'>Read More<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Designing Mobility-as-a-Service Subscription Bundles under a Joint Bundle-Path Equilibrium with Continuous Trip-Frequency Heterogeneity<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Under review<\/strong>, <strong>Transportation Research Part B<\/strong> (2025); <strong>preprint on SSRN<\/strong>.\n\n    <div style='border:1px solid #ddd;border-radius:10px;padding:15px;margin:15px 0;box-shadow:0 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:#fff;'>\n      <h3 style='margin-top:0;'><a href='https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/?p=25' style='text-decoration:none;color:#333;'>Designing mobility-as-a-service subscription bundles under a joint bundle-path equilibrium with continuous trip-frequency heterogeneity<\/a><\/h3>\n      <p style='color:#555;'>## 1. The Challenge:&hellip;<\/p>\n      <a href='https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/?p=25' style='display:inline-block;padding:8px 12px;background-color:#0073aa;color:white;border-radius:5px;text-decoration:none;'>Read More<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Dynamic Evolution of Mobility-as-a-Service Subscriptions: A Game-Theoretic Day-to-Day Framework for Multimodal Transport<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Abstract accepted<\/strong>, full paper <strong>under review<\/strong>, <strong>ASCE ICTD 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>CTS 2025<\/strong> (The 16th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, <strong>2025.07<\/strong>) \u2014 talk\/report: <em>\u201cBundle Design for MaaS: A Bilevel Social-Welfare Framework With Multi-User Multimodal Network Equilibrium.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CV (PDF):<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jiale_Li_CV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View CV<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a transportation researcher focusing on Mobility-a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deigel.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}