Dr. Bolong Zhou is currently a research associate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Hai Yang. Dr. Zhou earned his PhD in Civil Engineering (Transportation) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2026, and obtained his B.Eng. degree in Aviation Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2022, graduating with first-class honors. He has been recognized for his academic excellence and received the HKSAR Government Scholarship and the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on transport network modeling and optimization, airline and airport operation analysis, and transport economics. He has published four peer-reviewed journal articles as the first author in top-tier transportation journals (Transportation Research Part A/B/C).

Research Interests

Research Problems

• Multimodal Transport Network Modeling and Analytics
• Airline and Airport Operation Analysis
• Electrified, Automated, and Shared Mobility
• Urban Air Mobility and Logistics

Solution Methods

• Branch-and-cut, Branch-and-price, Bender’s decomposition
• Matheuristics
• Stochastic programming
• Reinforcement learning
• Game theory approaches

Selected Working Papers

• Zhou, B., Jabali. O., Liu, W., Schettini, T., Yang, H. The team orienteering problem with split visits and varying profit: Models and a branch-and-cut algorithm.
• Zhou, B., Zhang, Z., Lee, E., Yang, H. Equilibrium and cannibalization in dual-mode delivery platforms.
• Lin, Y., Zhou, B., Wang, H., Yang, H. Group-and-match vs. route-then-insert? Order dispatching in vehicle-based dual services.
• Lin, Y., Zhou, B., Sun, X., Yang, H. Truck-UAV hybrid delivery network design for dual-services: A two-stage stochastic optimization approach.