Urban Mobility Modeling and Optimization Talks: Dr. Negin Alisoltani and Dr. Mostafa Ameli - Date - June 29, 2026 - Time - 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET - Location - ENG-460 (4th floor) / 245 Church St. George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre The event is hosted by the SecGrid Lab in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering as part of our broader interdisciplinary engagement with transportation systems and their growing connections with electrification and smart-city resilience. What will the event cover? These special talks will present recent advances in urban mobility, ride-sharing, network modeling, game theory, artificial intelligence, and transportation-system optimization. Talk 1: Shared Mobility Revolution: Ride-Sharing for Sustainable Urban Solutions Speaker Dr. Negin Alisoltani Assistant Professor, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris Research Scientist, French Ministry for the Ecological Transition About the talk This talk will examine how dynamic ride-sharing and peer-to-peer mobility services can reduce congestion, improve trip sharing, and support more sustainable urban transportation. Talk 2: Urban Mobility Network Modeling and Optimization through Game Theory and AI Speaker Dr. Mostafa Ameli Associate Professor, HDR, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris Research Affiliate, EECS Department and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley About the talk This talk will focus on modeling and optimizing large-scale urban transportation networks, with particular attention to congestion dynamics, user decisions, multimodal demand, game theory, artificial intelligence, and system-level control strategies. Speaker bios Negin Alisoltani is an Assistant Professor at GRETTIA, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, with a focus on transportation, operations research, and computer science, from IFSTTAR and Université de Lyon in 2020. With experience in both academia and industry, Negin has contributed to projects involving the design and simulation of shared taxi, ride-sharing, and on-demand mobility services for cities including Paris, Lyon, Rome,