His fields of expertise include urban planning and transport studies. He received his Ph.D. from TU/e 2013. During his Ph.D. studies, he worked with a large consortium to examine how accessibility in the Netherlands' Randstad region can be improved by implementing synchronization strategies. After completing his Ph.D., he became a post-doc researcher in the same group, conducting research on travel behavior modeling and dynamic activity-travel assignment. In collaboration with Beihang University, the post-doc research attempted to solve a vital shortcoming of the existing travel demand forecasting systems by coupling activity-based modeling and dynamic traffic assignment in the multi-state supernetworks. His current research activities are focused on the developments of a large-scale model system of urban transportation planning.