Presentations

Invited Seminars/Symposia

  • “The Geography of Just Accessibility in the U.S.” GaTech POInt Research Symposium, Georgia Tech College of Design, Atlanta, GA. April 2021. (Virtual meeting)

  • "Critical Urban Data Science for Resilient Smart Urbanism." Keynote speaker in Session 9-A Urbanization and Smart Communities, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Universal Village, Boston, USA. October 2020. (Virtual meeting)

  • "Data Sharing Tips for Public Transportation Agencies." Webinar by Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington D.C., USA. May 2020.

  • "Urban Data Science for Just, Smart, and Sustainable Urban Development and Governance." 2019 Natural Resource Investigation and Monitoring Technology Workshop, Co-Organized by George Mason University, Harvard University, and Yale University. New Haven, CT. November 2019.

  • "Decoding Urban Mobility for Just, Smart, and Healthy Cities." 2019 Building Blocks for Smarter Cities Workshop, Co-Organized by Virginia Tech and Northeastern University, Arlington VA, July 2019.

  • "Just, Smart, and Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Opportunities in the Big Data Era." 2018 International Conference on Future Urban Development: Sustainable City-Region Governance. Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China, December 2018.

  • "Mining Small and Big Data for Sustainable Urban Futures." Reinventing Smart Urban Future Session. Urban China Collective First Annual Conference: Rethinking China's Urban Development Models. The University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, PA, November 2018

  • "Cell Phone Location Data for Travel Behavior Analysis." Webinar by Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Cooperative Highway Research Program 08-95, Washington D.C., USA. August 2018.

  • "Novel Case Studies" Session in Spatial Data Science Conference. CARTO, Brooklyn, NY USA. December, 2017.

  • "Using Data to Improve Mobility and Infrastructure" Session in Summit on Data-Smart Government. Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA USA. November 2017.

  • "Data-Driven Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Geography Colloquium. Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA. October 2017.

  • "Data-Driven Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities." Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. May 2017.

  • "Mining Human Activity Data to Improve Mobility and Urban Livability." Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Cell Phone Data and Travel Behavior Research Symposium, Washington D.C. USA, February 2014.

  • "Individual Daily Activity Patterns and Household Lifestyles in Singapore." Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, January 2012.

  • "Spatial Temporal Patterns of Human Activities in the City." SMART Future Mobility Research Seminar, Singapore, August 2011.

  • "Sustainable Community Development: The MIT-Shantou Studio." Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA USA, October 2010. & School of Continuing Education, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China, June 2010.

Campus Seminars/Symposia

  • "Rapid Classification of Transportation Infrastructure Damage and Loss Estimation using Image Libraries, Mobility Data, and Machine Learning" with Laurie Baise and Babak Moaveni, Data Intensive Studies Center (DISC) Forum, Tufts University, Medford, MA. May 2021. (Virtual meeting)

  • “Just Accessibility and Impact of COVID-19 for Top US Metropolitan Areas” in Panel “Who Gets to Belong in the Just and Sustainable Society?” Global Tufts Month, Office of the Provost. Tufts University, Medford, MA. March 2021. (Virtual meeting)

  • “Mobility, Accessibility and Social Equity in the Context of COVID19 in the U.S.” in Panel Discussion: Equity in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Tufts 2020 COVID-19 Research Symposium, Office of the Vice Provost for Research. Tufts University, Medford, MA. November 2020. (Virtual meeting)

  • “Mining Mobility for Smart Cities.” Tufts 2020 Three-Part Series on Smart Cities: Design and Development, hosted by the Departments of CEE, UEP and Economics. Tufts University, Medford, MA. February 2020

  • “Sustainable Urban Mobility for Smart Cities.” 2020. Tufts T-Tripods Launch Conference Sponsored by NSF. Tufts University, Medford, MA. January 2020.

  • “Deciphering Cities through Big Data,” 2019 Cities at Tufts Faculty Symposium.Tufts University, Medford, MA. March 2019.

  • “Mining Big Data to Improve Urban Mobility & Livability.” Urbanization and Innovation: How Our Exploding Cities are Preparing for the Future. Tufts Social Impact Network 2018 Fall Meeting. Tufts University, Boston, MA. November 2018.

  • "Untangling Complex Urban Issues through Emerging Big Data." Seminar on Urbanizing China: A Reflective Dialogue, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA USA, November 2013.

  • "Temporal Patterns of Human Activities in the City." Supply Chain and Operations Management Seminar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA USA, April 2011.

  • "Identifying & Clustering Urban Activity Destinations." Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA USA, October 2010.

Conferences ( * with Peer-Reviewed Abstracts, # Poster, ^ Supervised Students)