Dr Jie Zhang
BEng, PhD
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Lecturer in Business Analytics
University of Bristol Business School
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Biography
Dr Jie Zhang is a Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Bristol Business School. He received his PhD in Transportation Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2019. Before joining Bristol in 2021, he worked at the University of Cambridge, the University of Greenwich, and Nanyang Technological University, as well as in industry with China Railway Express.
His research focuses on sustainable transportation, shared mobility and digital supply chains, with a core focus on modelling approaches, including mathematical optimisation, simulation (e.g., agent-based modelling), and data-driven techniques such as machine learning. He has published more than 40 refereed papers in leading journals including Transportation Research Part B, Applied Energy and International Journal of Production Research. His work has been recognised through the ESI Highly Cited Paper, presentation at prestigious International Conference (ISTTT), and over £1M in funded projects in collaboration with academic, industry and policy partners.
At Bristol, Dr Zhang is a key contributor to the MSc Business Analytics programme. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Associate Editor of Digital Transportation and Safety and a Special Corresponding Expert for Frontiers of Engineering Management.
Dr Zhang welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students, visiting scholars or PhD candidates. Please feel free to contact him via email if you are interested in collaboration or supervision.
Research interests
Dr Zhang’s research advances sustainable transportation, shared mobility and digital supply chains by applying analytics, optimisation, agent-based modelling, network science and simulation. He develops decision-support tools for the planning, operation and management of complex transport and supply chain systems.
His recent work focuses on future mobility solutions such as Mobility as a Service (MaaS), bike sharing, on-demand transit, and the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies. He is also active in exploring supply chain management and digital twin systems, with applications in areas including zero-emission maritime logistics, resilience of supply networks and integration of transport–energy systems.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
HyPACT 2.0: Enabling Smart, ZeroEmission Maritime through Digital Innovation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Business SchoolDates
01/09/2025 to 31/03/2026
Saving Water and Energy in the Residential Sector: Behavioural Adaptation and Technology Adoption
Role
Co-Investigator
Dates
01/07/2023 to 30/06/2025
Digital twin platform aims to optimise vehicle-to-grid management
Principal Investigator
Dates
17/02/2023 to 31/07/2023
Interlinked Low-Carbon Travel and Residential Behaviour: Energy, Climate, Social and Infrastructural Impacts
Role
Co-Investigator
Dates
01/10/2022 to 30/09/2025
Smart Infrastructure Planning for Transportation Electrification
Role
Co-Investigator
Dates
08/04/2022 to 07/04/2024
Publications
Recent publications
13/08/2025Consumers’ attitudes toward benefits and drawbacks of vehicle-to-grid technology
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
Integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment under cooperation among multiple container terminals
Annals of Operations Research
Investigating the factors influencing the electric vehicle market share
Applied Energy
Traffic state estimation incorporating heterogeneous vehicle composition
Frontiers of Engineering Management
Financial ripple effect in complex adaptive supply networks: an agent-based model
International Journal of Production Research