Research

Selected research, publications, and conference presentations organized by affiliation.

Columbia Engineering

Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Publications / Preprints

  • A Two-Stage Scheduling Heuristic for the Deadline-Constrained Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone Stations (TSP-DS). Preprint
  • Transit Destination Inference from Tap-In-Only Bus Smart-Card Data: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach. Preprint

Seminar, Symposium, & Conference Presentations

  • Ling, J. (2027). A two-stage scheduling heuristic for the deadline-constrained traveling salesman problem with drone stations (TSP-DS) [Manuscript under review]. Transportation Research Board 106th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States. [Under Review]
  • Zhao, G., Ling, J., & Su, Y. (2027). Transit destination inference from tap-in-only bus smart-card data: A hierarchical Bayesian approach [Manuscript under review]. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. [Under Review]

University of Chicago

Department of Statistics

Publications / Preprints

  • Ling, J. (2024). Investigating Central England Temperature Variability: Statistical Analysis of Associations with North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14196.
  • Ling, J., & Wu, W. B. (2025). Comparative Analysis of Global and Local Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting for Contiguous Spatial Demand Regions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08214.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Collaborative Computing Group (MadCollab)

Publications / Preprints

  • Ling, J., & Jackson, C. B. (2024). Exploring Convergence in Relation using Association Rules Mining: A Case Study in Collaborative Knowledge Production. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.15440.
  • Jackson, C. B., Jeong E., & Ling, J. (2025). Exploring Tag-Based Collaborative Knowledge Production in Open Collaboration. Revisions in progress.

Purdue University

Sustainable Transportation Systems Research Group (STSRG)

Publications / Preprints

  • Ling, J., Qian, X., & Gkritza, K. (2024). Comparison of Crash Characteristics Among Electric Vehicles and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles. engrxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.31224/3693
  • Ling, J., Qian, X., & Gkritza, K. (2025). Electric vehicles vs. internal combustion engine vehicles: A comparative study of crashes involving vulnerable road users. International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtst.2025.03.006

Seminar, Symposium, & Conference Presentations

  • Ling, J., Qian, X., & Gkritza, K. (2022). Exploration of the Characteristics of Electric Vehicle Crashes: A Case Study in Iowa [PowerPoint presentation]. 2022 Purdue Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
  • Ling, J., Qian, X., & Gkritza, K. (2024). Electric Vehicles vs. Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles: A Comparative Study of Non-Motorist Crash Injury Severity [Poster presentation]. Transportation Research Board 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States.
  • Ling, J., Qian, X., & Gkritza, K. (2024). Exploring the Determinants of Non-Motorist Injury Severity in Crashes Involving Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Non-EVs [Poster presentation]. Road Safety & Simulation Conference, Lexington, KY, United States.