Madeline Zhu is the Policy Advisor for the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program at the US Department of Transportation. She leads the programmatic work for SMART, a $500 million discretionary grant program investing in transportation technology demonstrations, which is operated out of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Research. SMART was created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and is the nation's largest investment in smart cities and communities.

Prior to SMART, Madeline spent 8 years leading revenue and sales for transportation technology companies across the ITS and smart cities vertical. There, she worked with transportation agencies and cities of all sizes across the US and globally, from Boston, Miami-Dade County, and Los Angeles, to Johannesburg, Adelaide, and major cities in Canada.