Dr. MA Yi received his B.Eng. (2008) and M.S. (2012) in Transportation Engineering from Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, and PhD (2016) in Architecture and Civil Engineering from City University of Hong Kong, respectively. He has published over 20 articles on various journals, His research areas include evacuation dynamics and traffic flow.

Representative research results.

ournal papers

(1) Ma Y., Lee E. W. M., Shi M. and Yuen R. K. K., Spatial memory enhances the evacuation efficiency of virtual pedestrians under poor visibility condition, Chinese Physics B, 2018, 27(3): 038901

(2) Ma Y., Lee E. W. M. and Yuen R. K. K., Dual effects of pedestrian density on emergency evacuation, Physics Letters A, 2017, 381(5): 435-439

(3) Ma Y., Lee E. W. M. and Shi M., Dual effects of guide-based guidance on pedestrian evacuation, Physics Letters A, 2017, 381(22): 1837-1844

(4) Ma Y., Lee E. W. M. and Yuen R. K. K., An artificial intelligence-based approach for simulating pedestrian movement, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016, 17(11): 3159-3170

(5) Ma Y., Yuen R. K. K. and Lee E. W. M., Transition from positive to negative on the leadership effect of the biological particles group, EPL, 2016, 114(1): 18003

(6) Ma Y., Yuen R. K. K. and Lee E. W. M., Effective leadership for crowd evacuation, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, 450(5): 333-341

(7) Shi M., Lee E. W. M. and Ma Y. A novel grid-based mesoscopic model for evacuation dynamics. Physica A Statistical Mechanics & Its Applications, 2018, 497, 198-210.