Leila Hajibabai
Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Phone: 919.515.2364
- Email: lhajiba@ncsu.edu
- Office: 4167 Fitts-Woolard Hall
Leila Hajibabai received her B.S. in civil engineering in 2004 from K.N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. She earned her first M.Sc. in civil engineering in 2006 from Tehran University in Tehran, Iran and her second M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering in 2013 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since January 2017. Prior to this position, she was a faculty at Washington State University starting in January 2015.
Hajibabai is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). She has actively participated in various professional activities of the Transportation Network Modeling Standing Committee of Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and Transportation Science and Logistics of INFORMS. Hajibabai is a member of the TRB’s Emerging Technologies in Network Modeling subcommittee and the Standing Committee on Maintenance Equipment. She is a co-chair of the Operations and Preservation Group of the TRB Young Members Council.
Research Interests
Leila Hajibabai’s research lies in the areas of systems analytics and optimization, and supply chain logistics. Her main emphasis is on sustainable transportation systems: electrification and automation, renewable energy-powered mobility services, and transportation asset management. Her group uses operations research to improve the design, performance, and maintenance of such complex infrastructure systems. Her objective is to offer methodologies that address the socio-technological needs of smart and resilient cities and communities. Both theory and applications are emphasized in her group to evaluate the trade-offs on solution quality, computational efficiency, and applicability to large-scale problems at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2014 |
| MSIE | Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2013 |
| MSCE | Master of Science in Civil Engineering | University of Tehran | 2006 |
| BSCE | Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering | K.N.Toosi University of Technology | 2004 |
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Publications
- A Lagrangian relaxation approach for resource allocation problem with capacity constraints
- Protogyrou, D., & Hajibabai, L. (2024, May 30), COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13223
- A planar graph cluster-routing approach for optimizing medical waste collection based on spatial constraint
- Bagheri, K., Samany, N. N., Toomanian, A., Jelokhani-Niaraki, M., & Hajibabai, L. (2024, April 24), TRANSACTIONS IN GIS, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13159
- A relaxation-based Voronoi diagram approach for equitable resource distribution
- Li, K., Atik, A., Zheng, D., Hajibabai, L., & Hajbabaie, A. (2024, September 17), COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, Vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13339
- Advancing the white phase mobile traffic control paradigm to consider pedestrians
- Niroumand, R., Hajibabai, L., & Hajbabaie, A. (2024, March 10), COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13178
- Charging Network Design and Service Pricing for Electric Vehicles With User-Equilibrium Decisions
- Mirheli, A., & Hajibabai, L. (2023, January 31), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3227888
- Joint column generation and Lagrangian relaxation technique for incident respondent location and allocation
- Atik, A., & Hajibabai, L. (2023, May 4), COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13016
- White Phase Intersection Control Through Distributed Coordination: A Mobile Controller Paradigm in a Mixed Traffic Stream
- Niroumand, R., Hajibabai, L., & Hajbabaie, A. (2023), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(3), 2993–3007. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3226557
- A Game-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Service Scheduling at Charging Facilities
- Hajibabai, L., & Mirheli, A. (2022, October 13), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3212017
- Effects of Autonomous Driving Behavior on Intersection Performance and Safety in the Presence of White Phase for Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Stream
- Niroumand, R., Hajibabai, L., Hajbabaie, A., & Tajalli, M. (2022), Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2676(8), 112–130. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221082580
- Hierarchical Optimization of Charging Infrastructure Design and Facility Utilization
- Mirheli, A., & Hajibabai, L. (2022, January 21), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3142196
Grants
- SCC: Serving Households in AReas with food Insecurity with a Network for Good: SHARING
- Establishing Best Practices and Technical Guidance for Planning and Developing an EV Infrastructure Network
- SCC-PG: Empathy and AI: Towards Equitable Microtransit
- RAPID: Collection and Archiving of Vital Data on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
- NCHRP- Guide for the Formulation of Long-Range Plans and Budgets for Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment
