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This article focuses on Associate Professor Cathy Wu's application of reinforcement learning to optimize complex transportation systems, directly addressing the core technical mechanisms of machine learning. Her work demonstrates how AI-driven modeling can overcome the limitations of traditional evidence-based approaches in designing large-scale infrastructure. By leveraging RL to analyze thousands of system variants, this research offers a practical pathway for improving urban mobility through advanced algorithmic strategies.
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges
Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.
As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives. Her parents were Taiwanese immigrants, and her father had a long commute to his job, which took him away from the family. On a tight budget, the rest of the family often stayed home on a street that was too busy for playing outdoors. Wu and her siblings ended up playing a lot of computer games. Wu says her desire to make the world a better place, her dad’s daily battle against traffic, and the games she played, like “SimCity,” were the seeds of her motivation to design safe, efficient transportation systems. Wu is an associate professor in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)…
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