I am a professor at Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University. My work is broadly on the design and evaluation of scalable algorithms and data management techniques, with a focus the underlying computational challenges. The application domains are various, including intelligent transportation systems, complex networks, bioinformatics. In addition, I have an interest in the robustness and evolution of all kinds of systems.

The results of my research are published in leading transportation journals (e.g., Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part A/B/C/E, Transport Policy, and IEEE T-ITS), as well as computer science journals (e.g., Future Generation Computer Systems and Information Sciences) and conferences (e.g., PVLDB). A list of recent key publications can be found below.

According to my wide area of interest, I am an active and reliable reviewer for many international journals, including Nature Biotechnology, Transportation Research Part A/B/C/D/E, Transportmetrica A/B, and several IEEE Transactions, such as Vehicular Technology / Intelligent Transportation Systems / Knowledge and Data Engineering. I also occasionally review for several Computer Science and Bioinformatics journals, given my past research interests.

Ten selected key publications:

1. Sebastian Wandelt, Anming Zhang, et al. Global Airport Resilience Index: Towards a comprehensive understanding of air transportation resilience.
   Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment forthcoming, 2025, IF=7.3 (Q1) DOI
2. Sebastian Wandelt, Changhong Zheng, et al. Multiple airport regions: A review of concepts, insights and challenges.
   Journal of Transport Geography 120, pp. 103974, 2024, IF=5.7 (Q1) DOI
3. Sebastian Wandelt* and Changhong Zheng. Toward Smart Skies: Reviewing the State of the Art and Challenges for Intelligent Air Transportation Systems (IATS).
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 25(10), pp. 12943-12953, 2024, IF=7.9 (Q1) DOI
4. Sebastian Wandelt, Shuang Wang, et al. AERIAL: A meta review and discussion of challenges towards unmanned aerial vehicle operations in logistics, mobility, and monitoring.
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 25(7), pp. 6276-6289, 2023, IF=7.9 (Q1) DOI
5. Sebastian Wandelt, Xiaoqian Sun*, et al. Towards Analyzing the Robustness of the Integrated Global Transportation Network Abstraction (IGTNA).
   Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice 178, pp. 103838, 2023, IF=6.3 (Q1) DOI
6. Sebastian Wandelt, Xiaoqian Sun*, et al. AI-driven assistants for education and research? A case study on ChatGPT for air transport management.
   Journal of Air Transport Management 113, pp. 102483, 2023, IF=3.9 (Q2) DOI
7. Sebastian Wandelt, Yifan Xu, et al. Measuring node importance in air transportation systems: On the quality of complex network estimations.
   Reliability Engineering & System Safety 240, pp. 109596, 2023, IF=9.4 (Q1) DOI
8. Sebastian Wandelt, Xiaoqian Sun*, et al. Is the aircraft leasing industry on the way to a perfect storm? Finding answers through a literature review and a discussion of challenges.
   Journal of Air Transport Management 111, pp. 102426, 2023, IF=3.9 (Q2) DOI
9. Yifan Xu, Sebastian Wandelt, et al. A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach for Airline Integrated Recovery under in-flight Pandemic Transmission Risks.
   Transportation Research Part C-Emerging Technologies 152, pp. 104188, 2023, IF=7.6 (Q1) DOI
10. Sebastian Wandelt, Weibin Dai, et al. Towards a Reference Experimental Benchmark for Solving Hub Location Problems.
    Transportation Science 56, pp. 543-564, 2022, IF=4.4 (Q2) DOI