Yuteng Zhang — selected cartoon avatar

Yuteng Zhang.

LLM × SPATIOTEMPORAL INTELLIGENCE

LLMs for Spatiotemporal Data.
LLM Interpretability.

Exploring how language models understand cities, reason about movement, and make decisions more interpretable.

Based in Guangzhou, China
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NEWS / RESEARCH LOG

Recent signals.

A timeline of selected publications and acceptances.

All publications
05 PAPERS2024 — 2026
  1. 2026 · AcceptedFREIGHT-MNetICDM 2026
  2. 2026 · AcceptedCausal-Flow SCMSIGSPATIAL 2026
  3. Jul 2026 · PublishedTravel Behavior in Extreme HeatTRD 2026
  4. Jan 2026 · PublishedFrom Biases to OpportunitiesTRC 2026
  5. Feb 2024 · OnlineGANSamples-ac4CAnal. Biochem. 2024

01 / About

About.

I am a Ph.D. student in Intelligent Transportation at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), advised by Prof. Jiawei Wang. I received my M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Washington and my B.E. in Software Engineering from Jilin University.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs), spatiotemporal data, and intelligent decision-making. I am particularly interested in how LLMs understand and reason about human mobility and urban environments, how their internal knowledge and decision-making processes can be interpreted, and how agent-based systems can support spatiotemporal analysis and decision-making.

02 / Publications

Publication

ICDM 2026Accepted · Corresponding author

FREIGHT-MNet: A Public Multimodal Benchmark for Cold-Start Freight OD Travel-Time Risk

Yuteng Zhang, A. Banerjee

A benchmark.

SIGSPATIAL 2026Accepted · Riverside, CA · November 3–6, 2026

Causal-Flow SCM: Calibrated Forecasting and Counterfactual Prioritization for Airport Delay Propagation

Yuteng Zhang, Ekin Uğurel

Calibrated forecasting and counterfactual prioritization for airport delay propagation.

TRD 2026Published · Also presented at TRB 2026

Adapting travel behavior to extreme heat: Public transportation evidence from Seattle’s heatwave

Yuteng Zhang, Lyra Chen, Cynthia Chen

Examining how Seattle transit riders change their travel behavior during extreme heat.

TRC 2026Published · Volume 182, article 105416

From biases to opportunities: leveraging Location-Based-Service (LBS) data for next-generation transportation planning

Cynthia Chen, Ryan Wang, Prateek Bansal, Lyra Chen, Ekin Uğurel, Yuteng Zhang, Xinhua Wu

Understanding biases in location-based-service data and its role in transportation planning.

Anal. Biochem. 2024Published · Earlier work in machine learning

GANSamples-ac4C: Enhancing ac4C site prediction via generative adversarial networks and transfer learning

Fei Li, Jiale Zhang, Kewei Li, Yu Peng, Haotian Zhang, Yiping Xu, Yue Yu, Yuteng Zhang, Zewen Liu, Ying Wang, Lan Huang, Fengfeng Zhou

Generative adversarial learning and transfer learning for ac4C site prediction.

My name is highlighted. Accepted papers are distinguished from published journal articles. Bibliographic details were last reviewed on October 6, 2026.

03 / Path

Path.

Education

Sep. 2026 — Present

HKUST (Guangzhou)

Ph.D. in Intelligent Transportation

Systems Hub · Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Wang

Guangzhou, China · Expected June 2029

Sep. 2024 — Jun. 2026

University of Washington

M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering

GPA: 3.88 / 4.00

Seattle, WA, USA

Sep. 2020 — Jun. 2024

Jilin University

B.E. in Software Engineering

GPA: 3.67 / 4.00

Changchun, China

Research & teaching

Doctoral Research

Sep. 2026 — Present

HKUST (Guangzhou)

Intelligent Transportation · Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Wang

Transportation systems, urban mobility, transportation operations, and data-driven system modeling.

Research Assistant

Mar. 2025 — Aug. 2026

THINKLab · University of Washington

Advisor: Prof. Cynthia Chen · Civil and Environmental Engineering

Analyzed large-scale transit, mobility, weather, and land-use data for extreme-weather travel behavior, urban resilience, and transportation reliability. Developed reproducible data-processing, statistical, spatial, and network-analysis workflows.

Teaching Assistant

Sep. 2025 — Dec. 2025

University of Washington

CET 512: Transportation Data Collection

Graded assignments, provided feedback on transportation data analysis, and held office sessions for students.

Research Assistant

Jan. 2024 — Jun. 2024

International Institute of Green Finance

Environmental and sustainability research

Examined environmental-protection case studies, organized ESG-related information, and prepared quantitative summaries.

04 / Contact

Let’s connect.

Interested in language models, mobility, agents, or interpretable decision-making? I welcome research conversations and collaboration.

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