Dr. Jinlei Zhang was born in Hebei Province, China. He is currently an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. He is a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, traffic big data.He is a young director of Intelligent Computing Branch of China Operations Research Society. He is also a reviewer of Transportation research part B, part C, part E, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IET Intelligent Transport Systems and other journals.