Xiaodan Xu
Air Pollution Specialist at California Air Resources Board
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolXiaodan Xu is an air pollution specialist and transportation engineer with a Ph.D. in Transportation System Engineering and over a decade of applied research experience in travel demand modeling, mobile source emissions, and vehicle electrification. Currently at the California Air Resources Board after research roles at Berkeley Lab and Texas A&M, she translates advanced data science and statistical methods into policy-relevant insights for clean transportation. Her work spans academic publishing and hands-on modeling—linking emissions science to real-world transit and electrification strategies—and she maintains a visible scholarly presence via her Google Scholar profile. Trained in both statistics and civil engineering, she blends rigorous quantitative methods with practical system-level thinking, often bridging lab research and regulatory implementation. Based in Mountain View, she brings a rare combination of deep technical modeling expertise and direct experience in informing air quality policy.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Transportation System Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Transportation System Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Traffic Engineering, Bachelor's degree Traffic Engineering at Southeast University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (11)
energy7
agent-based-modeling6
logistics5
simulation5
mobility4
modeling4
vehicle-routing-problem3
modelica3
issue-tracking3
autonomy2
anaconda1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LBNL-UCB-STI/beam-core-analysis
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Centralized repository of LBNL analysis pipelines
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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LBNL-UCB-STI/GEMS-data
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:24 PRs, 120 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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