Yanzhi (Ann) Xu, Ph.D., is Research Scientist at Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) and Assistant Director of Technology at the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CARTEEH), a University Transportation Center funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. She is a data visionary with deep domain expertise in the intersection of transportation and energy systems. She regularly applies her expertise in data science and IT architecture to transportation electrification research and development. She led the development of a regional electric vehicle charging demand simulator and founded ElectroTempo, Inc., a spin-off to commercialize this technology. Prior to TTI, Dr. Xu was Senior Technical Advisor for Impact and Assessment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). In this role, she reviewed projects and programs in ARPA-E’s entire portfolio and gained unparallled understanding of zero emission technologies such as vehicle and grid batteries, hydrogen, renewable power generation, electric grid operations, and electric powertrains. She established ARPA-E’s Indicators Measuring Progress and Change Tracking System (IMPACTS), a data science platform to streamline and optimize the agency’s porfolio management. She also acted as Program Director of a $15M program in transportation and energy efficiency, namely, Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation (TRANSNET). Before ARPA-E, Dr. Xu focused on data management and statistical modeling to transportation network, energy, and emissions research at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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