Yanfeng Ouyang holds a B.Eng. in civil engineering (with top honors, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2000), M.S. in civil engineering (University of Washington, 2001), M.S. in industrial engineering and operations research (University of California at Berkeley, 2005), and Ph.D. in civil engineering (University of California at Berkeley, 2005). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since August 2005.

He currently teaches an undergraduate course in transportation engineering and a graduate course on logistics systems.

Professor Ouyang currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Transportation Research Part B, the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, and is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Network Modeling Committee (ADB30).  He is also an active member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science, and an affiliated member of the American Society of Civil Engineering. Professor Ouyang received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation in April 2008 and the Gordon F. Newell Award from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005.