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Our Mission

We borrow this world in an intelligent engineering work as based on human to access in reconstruction this earth system with operation under not risk.

Our team

GILBERT STRANG

Professor of Mathematics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gilbert Strang was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His Ph.D. was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT, an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Books:

  • Linear Algebra and Learning from Data (2019)

  • Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (2014)

  • Introduction to Linear Algebra (1993,1998,2003,2009,2016)

  • Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1976,1980,1988,2005)

  • An Analysis of the Finite Element Method, with George Fix (1973,2008,2017)

  • Introduction to Applied Mathematics (1986)

  • Calculus (1991,2017)

  • Wavelets and Filter Banks, with Truong Nguyen (1996)

  • Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS, with Kai Borre (1997)

  • Computational Science and Engineering (2007)

  • Essays in Linear Algebra (2012)

  • Algorithms for Global Positioning, with Kai Borre (2012)

Certifications:

He was the President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000, and Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. He received the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Henrici Prize for applied analysis. The first Su Buchin Prize from the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Haimo Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, were awarded for his contributions to teaching around the world.

P. Christopher Zegras

Professor of Mobility and Urban Planning

Department Head

Zegras is Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning in the Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where he teaches integrated land use-transportation planning, transportation finance, and field-based/client-based workshops. He has co-taught urban design and planning studios in Beijing, Boston, Cartagena (Colombia), Guadalajara (Mexico), Mexico City, and Santiago de Chile. He is the Lead Principal Investigator for the Future Urban Mobility research group, sponsored by the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and is MIT Lead of Transportation Systems under the MIT Portugal Program.

His research spans three inter-related areas critical to tackling metropolitan mobility challenges:
(1) Human Behavior: understanding the dynamic relationships between human behavior and the built, social, and natural environments;
(2) Digitalization: leveraging new technologies to deepen our understanding of relevant dynamics, offer new ways to interact with individuals, and enhance people’s engagement in mobility-related data collection and planning processes; and,
(3) Strategic Planning: devising new techniques for supporting mobility planning, aiming to understand how they can ultimately improve the design, finance, and implementation of innovative mobility policies and interventions.

He has consulted widely for a diverse range of organizations, including the International Energy Agency, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Canadian, German, US, and Peruvian Governments, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He serves on the Boston BRT Study Group and the MIT Transportation and Parking Committee. Prior to becoming a Professor, he worked for the International Institute for Energy Conservation in Washington, DC and Santiago de Chile and for MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. Zegras holds a BA in Economics and Spanish from Tufts University, a Master in City Planning and a Master of Science in Transportation from MIT and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, also from MIT.

Areas of Interest:

Environmental Planning and Management, Healthy Communities and Active Living, Infrastructure Planning, International Development, Transportation and Mobility, Transportation Planning, Urban Finance, Management, and Urban Economics, Urban Information, Technology, and Media and Analytics

Selected Publications:

P. Zegras, Christopher, Shan Jiang, and Christopher Grillo. Financing Rail Transit Infrastructure through Property Taxes: Prospects for Chicago." 2017.

 

Le, Diem-Trinh. "Constructing a Synthetic Population of Establishments for the Simmobility Microsimulation Platform." Transportation Research Procedia. 19 (2016): 81-93.

 

Lee, Jae Seung. "Does urban living influence baby boomers’ travel behavior?" Journal of Transport Geography. 35 (2014): 21-29.

 

P. Zegras, Christopher. "The built environment and motor vehicle ownership and use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile." Urban Studies. 47.8 (2010): 1793-1817.

 

P. Zegras, Christopher. "Scenario planning for strategic regional transportation planning." Journal of urban planning and development. 130.1 (2004): 2-13.

 

P. Zegras, Christopher. "Influence of land use on travel behavior in Santiago, Chile." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.1898 (2004): 175-182.

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Education

2002 - 2005 PhD, MIT

1998 - 2001 MCP/MST, MIT

1986 - 1990 BA, Tufts

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