Rate My Professor Haoning Xi

Dr Haoning (Alice) Xi is a Senior Lecturer at the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD in Transportation and Operations Research from the University of New South Wales Sydney, with co-cultured studies at CSIRO Data61's Optimization and Financial Risk Analysis research group. Previously, she obtained a Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University, where she received the China National Scholarship in 2018, and a Bachelor's degree from Central South University, both in China. Xi has held positions as a Research Assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to her current appointment, she served as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School from April 2022 to September 2023, and as Lecturer at the University of Newcastle from September 2023 to January 2026.

Dr Xi's research interests include artificial intelligence, business analytics, data mining, data-driven optimization, machine learning, mobility as a service, operations research, optimization, transport management, and transportation. She has secured $463,500 in funding across 10 grants, including as lead investigator on AI-driven models for optimizing cost-effective bus network services and predicting multimodal transportation demand. Her accolades include the 2025 University of Newcastle Early Career Researcher Excellence Award as the sole university-wide recipient, the 2025 Newcastle Business School Early Career Researcher Award, the 2025 CHSF Industry Engagement Team Award, Rising Stars Women in Engineering at the 2024 Asian Deans’ Forum, First Prize for the 2022 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Doctoral Thesis Award, and multiple best paper awards at international conferences. Key publications comprise 'A spatial-temporal dynamic attention-based Mamba model for multi-type passenger demand prediction in multimodal public transit systems' (Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2025), 'Dynamic electric vehicle fleets management problem for multi-service platforms with integrated ride-hailing, on-time delivery, and vehicle-to-grid services' (Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2025), and 'Shore power adoption strategies of shipping companies and pricing decisions of the port under subsidies and carbon taxes: A game theoretical analysis' (Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2026). Since completing her PhD in 2022, she has authored 22 SCI/SSCI articles, including 9 in Australian Business Deans Council A* ranked journals. Her research informs Transport for NSW, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, and the Port of Newcastle, and has received media recognition from The Conversation, ABC Radio, and Sky News Australia.