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 served as the Director for National Institute for Congestion Reduction (NICR), a USDOT National University Transportation Center (8/2021-8/2025) and 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 a senior member of the National Academy of Inventor (NAI) and American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). 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) and serves as Associate Editor and on editorial boards of prestigious transportation journals. 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.