Qiushi Chair Professor, Tenured Professor

Der-Horng Lee is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore, Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, former Dean of the Zhejiang University–University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute, and holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. He currently serves as an Executive Committee Member and Director of the Transportation Division of the Academy of Engineering Singapore. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to transportation and logistics systems. Before joining Zhejiang University, Professor Lee was a tenured full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore and a member of the University Senate. Over the years, he has been active at the forefront of future transportation, logistics systems, smart cities, and decision-making for complex systems, with extensive experience spanning academic research, policy advisory work, and industrial practice. In 2002, he was named one of the TR35: Global Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35 by MIT Technology Review. He has also been consistently listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists and Elsevier’s Highly Cited Researchers in China. Professor Lee’s scholarly influence has long been at the forefront internationally across multiple areas, including transportation logistics, port operations, maritime transportation, intermodal transport, and public transportation. His research encompasses future transportation and AI systems, the low-altitude economy and unmanned transportation networks, intermodal transport and smart supply chain optimization, digital twins and intelligent decision-making for complex systems, as well as sustainable mobility and urban transport governance. He has produced a series of original and internationally influential contributions in such areas as large-scale container port logistics operations, urban rail transit, highly accessible autonomous transportation systems, and high-fidelity transportation simulation. In addition to his academic work, Professor Lee has long been involved in strategic and policy planning related to transportation and national development in Singapore. He also previously served at a major publicly listed technology company as Senior Vice President for Research and Development, where he was responsible for major R&D programs and the management of high-level technical teams. His career spans academia, policy, and industry, giving him a distinctive and integrative perspective. As a foreign academician working full-time in China, Professor Lee was received by President Xi Jinping in Beijing in October 2019.

Future Transportation and Artificial Intelligence Systems, Low-Altitude Economy and Unmanned Transportation Networks, Intermodal Transport and Smart Supply Chain Optimization, Digital Twins and etc.