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Ran Tian

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1999Rising activity
Traffic Prediction and Management TechniquesAdvanced Manufacturing and Logistics OptimizationIron and Steelmaking ProcessesElevator Systems and ControlReinforcement Learning in Robotics

Publications

133

Citations

1,681

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

28

Publishing since 1999

Research summary
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This publication record appears to combine work from multiple researchers sharing the same name, covering logistics and transportation optimization using reinforcement learning, iron ore reduction and steelmaking processes, and scattered topics in environmental science, remote sensing, and biology. The transportation-focused work centers on applying deep reinforcement learning to problems like pickup-and-delivery routing, electric vehicle charging station pricing, and load prediction. The materials-science-related work investigates hydrogen-based, lower-carbon methods for producing iron and steel.

Reinforcement learning for logistics and vehicle routingElectric vehicle charging and traffic predictionHydrogen-based iron and steel productionIndustrial sensing and machine learning applicationsEnvironmental and materials chemistry (diverse, possibly unrelated topics)

Publication output grew substantially from 2017 to a peak around 2023-2024, with a slight decline in 2025, suggesting a period of strong growth followed by recent leveling off.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 15.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 10 publications182019: 8 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 14 publications212022: 16 publications222023: 22 publications22232024: 21 publications242025: 16 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×13
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×7
  • Lecture notes in electrical engineering×5
  • Computers & Industrial Engineering×3
  • Plants×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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