Dr. Yu Yu Zhang is a Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) and leads the Smart Urban Mobility Laboratory (SUM-Lab) at USF. She serves as the Director for National Institute for Congestion Reduction (NICR), a USDOT National University Transportation Center (8/2021-8/2024). She also served as the Associate Director of Center for Transportation, Environmental, and Community Health (CTECH), a USDOT Tier 1 UTC (10/2016-9/2023). She develops mathematical programming and solution algorithms, simulation tools, econometrics and statistical models, machine learning/deep learning methods for obtaining innovative solutions for more efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation systems. Her recent efforts focus on challenging issues of emerging services and technologies in transportation, including Advanced Air Mobility and automated connected electrified and shared (ACES) Transportation. She is the recipient of 2020 Amazon Research Award, a prestigious research award supporting innovations at academic institutions and non-profit organizations worldwide and 2010 Fred Burggraf Award, which is conferred by the National Academies of Science Transportation Research Board for recognizing the excellence of young researchers. She has published more than 80 papers in top transportation journals such as Transportation Research Part B, Part C, Part D, and Part E (by Dec. 2024, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1202-626X). She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Public Transportation, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, and Journal of Air Transport Management. She served as Associate Editor for Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and Multimodal Transportation published by Elsevier (1/2021-1/2024) and on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. She served as the Chair for Transportation Research Board (TRB) Airfield and Airspace Performance (AV060) committee (4/2017-4/2023), the President for Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) (1/2016-1/2018), and the President of Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Tampa Bay Chapter (1/2020-1/2024). She holds Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Bachelor from Southeast University of China in Transportation Engineering.