2025.07.08: Kaifa Lu published his paper "Assessing the impacts of transit systems and urban street features on bike-sharing ridership: A graph-based spatiotemporal analysis and prediction model" in the Journal of Transport Geography.
2025.06.02: Kaifa Lu received a "Best Presentation/Research Award" in AI and Cities: An International Forum for Innovation and Collaboration, hosted by the College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, USA.
2025.04.24: Kaifa Lu received a "WRS Infrastructure & Environment Inc. Award in Memoriam of Mario Ripol for Outstanding Achievement in Planning Information and Analysis", College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, USA
2025.04.08: Kaifa Lu published his paper "Unraveling urban bike-sharing dynamics: Spatiotemporal imbalances in bike rentals and returns in Washington D.C." in the Journal Cities.
2024.11.07-09: Kaifa Lu attended the 2024 ACSP conference held in Seattle, WA, USA, and made an oral presentation titled "Impact of Shared Micromobility System Sizes on Usage Patterns: Planning Implications".
2024.10.23: Kaifa Lu passed the qualifying exam for his Ph.D. degree, and his dissertation title is "AI-Driven Approach to Optimize and Automate Shared Micromobility System Planning and Operation".
2024.08.01: Kaifa Lu recived his Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.
2024.01.07-11: Kaifa Lu attended the 2024 TRB conference held in Washington D.C., USA, and made a poster presentation titled "Demystifying the Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Rental-Return Imbalance on Bike-Sharing Systems: A Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) Model".
2023.11.15: Kaifa Lu receive a Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the University of Florida International Center (UFIC).
2023.11.09: Kaifa Lu's research titled "Impact of shared micromobility system sizes on usage patterns and its planning implications: A comparison between Washington DC and Jacksonville, Florida" has been awarded "Merit Commendation (PhD Research Poster)" in Graduate Student Research Symposium by College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida.
2023.10.19-21: Kaifa Lu attended the 2023 ACSP conference held in Chicago, IL, USA, and made an oral presentation titled "Leveraging Deep Learning with Geospatial Data Analytics for Quantification and Prediction of Performance Resilience of Transportation Networks against Extreme Weather Events".
2023.06.28-07.02: Kaifa Lu attended the 17th IACP conference held in Tianjin, China, and made an online oral presentation titled "Using Origin-Destination Flow Graph and Public Transit Information to Enhance Short-Term Ridership Prediction in Bike-Sharing Systems".
2023.06.22: Our lab published an Urban Planning AI paper titled "The Pathway of Urban Planning AI: From Planning Support to Plan-Making" in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
2023.01.08-12: Kaifa Lu attended the 2023 TRB conference held in Washington D.C., USA, and made a poster presentation titled "Characterization and Prediction of Transportation Network Resilience: A Spatiotemporal Graph Diffusion Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network Approach".
2021.08.23: Kaifa Lu started his Ph.D. study at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida.
2021.08.23: Kaifa Lu created his personal website.