Summary
Xuesong Zhou is a transportation systems professor and software architect with over a decade of experience translating transportation research into deployed products, from early train timetabling for the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed line to commercial navigation and traffic systems. He co-invented Key2SafeDriving and led architecture and development for NEXTA, served as traffic data architect for Dash Express, and was a key developer of the DYNASMART-P traffic simulator released by FHWA. His work spans dynamic traffic assignment, real-time traveler information, traffic flow estimation and visualization analytics, blending operations research rigor with practical distributed systems engineering. Based in Scottsdale and active in both academia and industry, he brings a rare track record of peer-reviewed scholarship (Transportation Research B, EJOR, IEEE T-ITS) combined with production-grade software delivered to national-scale transportation platforms.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
civil engineering transportation, civil engineering transportation at The University of Texas at Austin
Beijing Jiaotong University
University of Maryland