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Associate Professor Joyce Zhang is an academic in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, holding the position of Associate Professor in Operations Research in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Southeast University, China, and a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Melbourne. Her research centers on operations research, with a focus on transport network modelling and optimisation. Expertise areas encompass mathematical modelling and optimisation, traffic flow theory, Monte Carlo simulation, scheduling theory, city logistics, and time series analysis. She applies these methods to address real-world problems in transportation, logistics, and related fields.

Joyce Zhang is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA). She contributes to the Physical Internet Lab at the University of Melbourne and collaborates with industry partners including Toll, Transport of Victoria, and Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. Her publications appear in leading journals such as Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Journal of Advanced Transportation, and International Journal of Production Research. Key works include 'A comparative study of macroscopic fundamental diagrams of arterial road networks governed by adaptive traffic signal systems' (2013, 216 citations), 'An overview of agent-based models for transport simulation and analysis' (2022, 136 citations), 'A parcel network flow approach for joint delivery networks using parcel lockers' (2021, 97 citations), 'Crowdsourced last-mile delivery with parcel lockers' (2022, 90 citations), and 'Synchronization in synchromodality' (2023, 43 citations). These contributions demonstrate her impact on optimising transportation and logistics systems.