The Faculty of Engineering welcomed a new professor this semester:
Jiangbo Yu
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
Prof. Jiangbo Yu’s research focuses on human-machine collaboration for resilient mobility infrastructure and services. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, his M.S in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology. Before joining McGill, he was a senior engineer at AECOM and a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Areas of research: Automated Electric Mobility; Nonlinear Systems; Human-AI Teaming
Courses you teach/will be teaching: Transportation Systems Engineering; Urban Systems Modeling and Analysis
Things you’re excited to get started at McGill: Generating new ideas and meeting people
Research/career highlight you’re most proud of: Receiving my Professional Engineer (PE) license and an offer from McGill in the same week
Favourite aspect of your work: The multidisciplinary aspect of it
Last place you lived: Denver, Colorado, USA
Last book you read: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Kahneman et al.
Instruments you play: Timpani / Drums