Overview
Dr. Baichuan Mo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transportation Engineering, Tsinghua University, and the Principal Investigator of MoS Lab. His research focuses on resilient and intelligent transportation systems, with applications in public transit operations, passenger behavior modeling, mobility demand prediction, incident-aware control strategy design, and interactions between public transit and emerging mobility services.
His work combines optimization, probability and statistics, machine learning, econometrics, and game theory to support data-driven decision-making in urban mobility systems.
Education
- Ph.D. in Transportation, MIT, Sep 2018 – Sep 2022
- Master of Science in Transportation, MIT, Sep 2018 – May 2020
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT, Sep 2018 – May 2020
- Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Aug 2014 – Jul 2018
- Bachelor of Management, Tsinghua University, Aug 2015 – Jul 2018
Publications
Please refer to the google scholar page for the up to date publication list.
Awards & Honors
- Best PhD Dissertation Award, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), 2022.
- UPS PhD Fellowship, MIT, 2021.
- Best Bachelor Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2018.
- Outstanding Graduate Award, Tsinghua University, 2018.
- Tsinghua Presidential Scholarship (清华大学本科生特等奖学金), 2017.
- Cai Xiong Scholarship, Tsinghua University (清华大学蔡雄奖学金), 2017.
- Tang Lixin Scholarship, Tsinghua University (清华大学唐立新奖学金), 2016 - 2022.
- China National Scholarship (国家奖学金), 2015.
Work Experience
- TikTok
- Staff Machine Learning Scientist & Tech Lead, Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
- Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Dec 2023 - Aug 2025
- Lyft
- Senior Research Scientist, Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
- Research Scientist, Sep. 2022 - Oct 2023
- Research Scientist Intern, May 2022 - Aug 2022
- Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
- Research intern, Jan 2020
- Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR)
- Research intern, Jul 2019
- Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center
- Research intern, Jun - Jul 2019, Jul - Aug 2018, Jul. - Aug 2017, June - July 2016