The Innovation and Talent Introduction Base for Information and Transportation Operations Research (B16002) at Beijing Jiaotong University was established in 2016 and completed its initial phase in 2021, securing continued support for further development. The base currently comprises 23 core members, including two distinguished overseas scholars and 11 overseas academic experts. Through years of development, the base has expanded and recruited 49 additional overseas experts, bringing the total number to 62. The base has six leading Chinese scholars, with a total Chinese membership of 41 researchers. All researchers at the base are affiliated with the Institute of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Sciences at Beijing Jiaotong University, with Academician Ma Zhiming as the institute's director. The base boasts distinguished members including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recipients of such programs as the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists (Overseas), Young Top Talent Project, and Thousand Foreign Experts Program, and winners of the Ministry of Education’s New Century Excellent Talents Award, Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions, and the National Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award.

    Through extensive collaboration with Chinese and international experts, the base has established five distinctive research areas: stochastic analysis and optimization, statistical data analysis, optimization theory and methodology, combinatorics and coding, as well as algebraic and topological graph theory. Aligned with major national strategic needs and the forefront of global scientific development, the base integrates and supports national strategies, focusing on fundamental and core issues restricting China's economic and social development. Guided by problems and demands, it emphasizes applied basic research and conducts independent, forward-looking, and original fundamental scientific studies. The base systematically builds and enhances its foundational research capabilities in its areas of strength and strengthens basic research on common industry challenges. The research focuses on several critical issues in information and transportation operations research, with specific topics including applications of stochastic analysis and optimization in genetic data and channel transmission, information extraction and analysis of urban and rail transit data, optimization models and algorithms for urban and rail transit data, communication transmission coding and cryptography, as well as highly symmetric graph theory and its applications in network theory.

    Since 2022, both Chinese and international researchers at the base have actively engaged in global collaborations, achieving technological breakthroughs and innovations across multiple key fields. The base has secured funding for one National Key R&D Program project, one National Key R&D Program sub-project, two international cooperation projects, one key project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 12 NSFC general projects, nine NSFC youth projects, one NSFC Mathematical Tianyuan Fund project, one general project from the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, one "Haidian Joint-Frontier" project from the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and one youth project from the Beijing Natural Science Foundation. The base has sponsored faculty and students for international academic exchanges and jointly trained eight doctoral candidates. In addition, the base has co-organized seven international conferences with national first-tier academic associations and peer universities, and invited experts for over 100 online academic lectures.