Der-Horng Lee

Biography

Professor LEE Der-Horng (李德紘) holds his tenured full professorship at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Lee was elected and awarded Fellow (FSEng) status of Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng) in September 2017. He is also a Fellow (FIES) of Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) and the inaugural batch of Chartered Engineer (CEng) of Transportation Engineering in Singapore. Professor Lee is currently the Director of NUS-LTA (Land Transport Authority Singapore) Transport Research Centre (TRC@NUS).

Professor Lee was graduated with his PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1996 under the supervision of Professor David Boyce. Professor Lee’s professional expertise includes Transportation Policy, Intelligent Transporation Systems (ITS), Urban and Regional Travel Demand Forecasting, Public Transportation, Emerging Urban Mobility Susyems, Container Port Operations, Aviation Management, etc. Professor Lee has published more than 400 referred journal papers, book chapters, books, and conference papers detailing his research activities.

Professor Lee is active and committed in the international transportation academic community through journal editorial activities. Professor Lee is one of the founding and standing editors of EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics (Springer). Concurrently, Professor Lee serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He was the book editor of “Urban and Regional Transportation Modeling: Essays in Honor of David Boyce” published by Edward Elgar in the book series of “New Dimensions in Networks” with Professor Anna Nagurney as the series editor. Moreover, Professor Lee holds memberships in several other international referred and SCI-indexed journals including Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (Elsevier), International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research (Springer), Journal of Remanufacturing (Springer), Journal of Modern Transportation (published by Southwest Jiaotong University, China), and International Journal of Advanced Logistics (official journal of Asia Logistics Society).

A transportation planner and engineer by training, Professor Lee has not only been well recognized by his academic performance but also well received by government agencies and transportation industry as a thought leader at local, regional and international levels. Professor Lee has been extensively quoted and frequently interviewed by media including Channel News Asia (Singapore), Singapore Press Holdings, Phoenix Satellite TV (Hong Kong), CCTV (China), Xinhua Press (China), Reuters, BBC, CNN, NHK, ANN (Japan), KBS, and Ch8-Korea with more than 800 newspaper quotations and 300 live or pre-recorded TV and radio interviews with his comments and thoughts on issues and current affairs of mobility, transportation policies, infrastructure development, etc.

Professional Qualifications

• Fellow (FSEng), Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng) 新加坡工程院 院士
• Fellow (FIES), Institution of Engineer Singapore (IES) 新加坡工程师学会 会士
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) in Transportation Engineering, Singapore 新加坡特许交通工程师

Educational Qualifications

• PhD (1996), University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
• MEng (1992), National Central University, Taiwan.
• BBA (1990), Tamkang University, Taiwan.

Experience

• Director, NUS-LTA Transport Research Centre (TRC@NUS), since November 2015.
• Professor (Tenured), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, since January 2014.
• Deputy Head (Research), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, January 2014 – February 2016.
• Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2005 – 2013.
• Director (Degreed Education), The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific (TLI-AP), a collaboration between the National University of Singapore and Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004 – 2006.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 1999 – 2004.
• Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, USA, January – August 1999.
• Assistant Researcher, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine, California, USA, July 1997 – August 1999.
• Research Fellow, ITS Research Group, Center for Transportation Analysis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, July 1996 – June 1997.

Research Interests

• Transportation policy
• Urban and regional travel demand forecasting
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
• Taxi and private-hire competition and strategy
• Emerging (shared, personal, electric, autonomous) urban mobility
• Public transportation
• Data-driven transportation modeling
• Container port operations