Xiaobo Qu is a Changjiang Chair Professor of Intelligent Transportation, Tsinghua University in China. His research is focused on improving large, complex and interrelated urban mobility systems by integrating with emerging technologies. To date, Prof. Qu has secured research funding well above 12 million Euros from the Australian Research Council, Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova, STINT, and European Union. He has published over 140 journal articles published at top tier journals in the area of transportation. He is an elected member in Academia Europaea-The Academy of Europe since 2020.