Dr Jie Zhang
BEng, PhD
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Current positions
Lecturer in Business Analytics
School of Management - Business School
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Biography
Dr Jie Zhang is a Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Bristol Business School. He earned a PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2019. Before joining Bristol, Jie worked as a researcher(University of Cambridge, University of Greenwich and Nanyang Technological University) and engineer(China Railway Express). He has led and participated in more than 20 projects (transportation, supply chain, logistics, social network, etc.) in China, Singapore and the UK.
Research interests
My research investigates transportation and supply chain systems. I use analytics, optimisation and simulation methods to build optimal models and tools to support decision-making in planning, operation and management.
Recently, I am particularly interested in the research of future mobilities, such as Mobility as a Service (MaaS), Bike Sharing, On-demand Transit, Electric Vehicle (EV) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G).
I am also interested in the research of supply chain management and digital twin system.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Saving Water and Energy in the Residential Sector: Behavioural Adaptation and Technology Adoption
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
01/07/2023 to 30/06/2025
Digital twin platform aims to optimise vehicle-to-grid management
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
17/02/2023 to 31/07/2023
Interlinked Low-Carbon Travel and Residential Behaviour: Energy, Climate, Social and Infrastructural Impacts
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
01/10/2022 to 30/09/2025
Smart Infrastructure Planning for Transportation Electrification
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Management - Business SchoolDates
08/04/2022 to 07/04/2024
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2024Investigating the factors influencing the electric vehicle market share
Applied Energy
Financial ripple effect in complex adaptive supply networks: an agent-based model
International Journal of Production Research
Optimal bike allocations in a competitive bike sharing market
Journal of Cleaner Production
A spatial agent-based joint model of electric vehicle and Vehicle-to-Grid adoption: A case of Beijing
Applied Energy
Traffic flow prediction using bi-directional gated recurrent unit method
Urban informatics