The team.
A Principal Investigator, three doctoral researchers and two postdoctoral fellows, each mapped to one of the four scientific themes.
Principal Investigator
Shadi Sharif Azadeh
Principal Investigator · Leads all work packages
Associate Professor and Director of the SUM Lab in the Department of Transport & Planning, TU Delft. Her work spans operations research, machine learning and behavioural science, the three disciplines the programme brings together.
Doctoral & postdoctoral researchers
Yijun (Eugene) Wu
Yijun (Eugene) Wu is a PhD student at the SUM Lab and has been involved in the TRANSFORM project since September 2026. His research focuses on long-term transport planning under uncertainty. Eugene...
Yahan Lu
Yahan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sustainable Urban Multimodal Mobility (SUM) Lab at Delft University of Technology. Her research integrates operations research and machine learning to address large-scale optimization problems in...
Minghao Li
Minghao Li is a PhD candidate at the SUM Lab at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on short-term multimodal transport planning under uncertainty, with particular attention to optimization and decision-making...
Natalia Vázquez Purriños
Natalia Vázquez Purriños is a PhD candidate at TU Delft’s SUM Lab, where she works within the ERC-funded TRANSFORM project on resilient multimodal transport systems. Her research focuses on developing adaptive mobility...
Co-supervision is provided by collaborators across interpretable AI, traffic management, optimisation, behavioural modelling and policy.