Overview

Yahui Li (李雅慧) is an MSc student in MoS Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University. Her interests include intelligent transportation systems, rail transit operations, emergency response decision support, and data-driven transportation policy analysis.

Education

• M.S. in Civil Engineering, Future Transportation and Urbanization, Tsinghua University, Sep 2026 - Jun 2028
• Exchange Student in Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
• B.Eng. in Intelligent Transportation Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Sep 2022 - Jun 2026

Research Experience

• Agent-based intelligent assistant for rail transit emergency decision-making, May 2023 - May 2024
  • Built a professional knowledge base for railway emergency response using emergency cases, response plans, and industry technical regulations.
  • Supported rapid retrieval by splitting long documents into knowledge chunks and storing them in a vector database.
  • Generated structured emergency response strategies by matching user scenarios with relevant knowledge and large language models.
• Autonomous identification and handling system for airborne light floating objects along railway perimeters, May 2024 - May 2025
  • Designed the system architecture integrating object detection, depth-camera localization, UAV obstacle avoidance, and robotic-arm handling.
  • Modeled the robotic arm with Denavit-Hartenberg parameters and validated workspace constraints through MATLAB simulation.

Professional Experience

• Transport Planning and Research Institute, Ministry of Transport, China, Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
  • Supported transportation investment policy research and industry analysis.
  • Contributed to indicator design for evaluating central investment project benefits under vehicle purchase tax reform.
  • Assisted with transportation investment reports, freight hub performance evaluation materials, data checking, expert feedback summaries, and meeting notes.

Awards & Honors

• First Prize, Beijing Division, 15th Chinese Mathematics Competition, 2023.
• Honorable Mention, 40th Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2024.
• Grand Prize, AI+ Track, 19th Challenge Cup Capital College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, 2025.
• Second Prize, Beijing Division, 11th China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, 2025.
• Academic Excellence Scholarship, Outstanding Student Award, Outstanding Graduate Award, and First-Class Undergraduate Overseas Study Scholarship, Beijing Jiaotong University.

Skills

• Programming and tools: Python, MATLAB, OpenTrack, Vissim, SUMO, MySQL.
• Languages: CET-4 601, CET-6 628.