Leila Hajibabai

Associate Professor

 
Leila Hajibabai earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 2014 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also received an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering. She previously earned an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 2006 from Tehran University and a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 2004 from K.N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.

BEfore joining NC State, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, following her tenure as a faculty member at Washington State University.

Hajibabai is an active member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and has made significant contributions to the professional activities of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. She is involved with the Transportation Network Modeling Standing Committee, the Emerging Technologies in Network Modeling Subcommittee, and the Standing Committee on Maintenance Equipment. She also serves as a co-chair of the Operations and Preservation Group within the TRB Young Members Council and actively participates in the Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS. She is also a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).

Research Interests

Hajibabai’s research focuses on operations research, artificial intelligence (AI), and systems analytics applied to supply chain logistics and network optimization. Her interests span sustainable transportation systems, including electrification and automation, humanitarian logistics, uncrewed aircraft systems, and transportation asset management. Her group leverages optimization and AI methodologies to enhance the design, performance, and maintenance of complex infrastructure systems. Her research addresses the socio-technological needs of smart, resilient cities and communities. Both theoretical advancements and practical applications are emphasized, focusing on evaluating trade-offs among solution quality, computational efficiency, and scalability to large-scale problems at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.

Education

DegreeProgramSchoolYear
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Civil EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014
MSIEMaster of Science in Industrial EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2013
MSCEMaster of Science in Civil EngineeringUniversity of Tehran2006
BSCEBachelor of Science in Civil EngineeringK.N.Toosi University of Technology2004

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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

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