On January 9, 2026, the TRANS Research Group hosted an invited academic lecture by Associate Professor Chen Zhang from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, titled “Innovation of Clean and Low-Carbon Technologies and System-Level Empirical Research in Smart Energy Campuses.” To address…
On December 22, 2025, the TRANS Research Group hosted an invited academic lecture by Dr. Tanhua Jin, a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Department of Geography at Ghent University, titled “Spatial Mobility, Opportunity Exposure, and Social Segregation: Evidence from Large-Scale Mobility…
On December 12, 2025, the TRANS Research Group invited Dr. Xu Hao from the University of Science and Technology Beijing to deliver an academic lecture titled “Research on Integrated Transportation and Energy Systems Considering Heterogeneity in New Energy Vehicle Usage…
In December 2025, the TRANS Research Group’s latest study, “A data-driven and physics-based model for assessing real-world usage behavior impacts on electric vehicle battery life,” was published in the Q1 (JCR) energy journal Journal of Energy Storage (Impact Factor: 9.8). This…
The TRANS Lab recently organized a series of artificial intelligence outreach activities for young students at South China University of Technology (SCUT)’s affiliated kindergarten and elementary school in Guangzhou International Campus. Led by Professor Shiqi (Shawn) Ou, the activity team included…
Recently, the Department of Education of Guangdong Province unveiled the list of approved key scientific research platforms and projects for its higher education institutions. Among the selected initiatives is a key area project on Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Robotics) awarded to…
A joint research initiative between South China University of Technology’s TRANS Lab and Saudi Aramco, in partnership with KAPSARC, has been selected by the United Nations as a “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development.” The research “Artificial Intelligence…
On November 3, 2025, a delegation from Saudi Aramco visited the TRANS Research Group at the School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, where both parties engaged in in-depth discussions on transportation energy strategy analysis, energy transition, and the…
On November 3, 2025, the TRANS Research Group invited Mr. Daniel De Castro, a Senior Economist and Strategic Planning Expert at Saudi Aramco, to deliver an academic lecture titled “Saudi Aramco—From Macro Trends to Strategy: Mapping the Future Blueprint for…
On October 30, 2025, the TRANS Research Group invited Dr. Zheng Zhu, a Hundred Talents Program Investigator and PhD Supervisor from Zhejiang University, to deliver an academic lecture titled “Current Research Applications, Prospects, Challenges, and Coping Strategies of LLM Technologies…