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)
*^Lian, X. and Jiang, S. “Determining Factors of Urban Migration by University Graduates in China.” The 15th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference. Nanjing, China. September 2021. (Virtual meeting)
*Jiang, S., Hudda, N., and Durant, J. “Estimating the Relationship between Urban Traffic and Air Quality with Smartphone Data.” The 17th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM). Helsinki, Finland. June 2021. (Virtual meeting)
*^Aslanyan, T. and Jiang, S. “Examining Passenger Vehicle Miles Traveled and Carbon Emissions in the Boston Metropolitan Area.” The 17th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM). Helsinki, Finland. June 2021. (Virtual meeting)
*^Marsh, L., ^Gebregziabher, D., ^Chau, N., Jiang, S., "Motion and Emotion: Tracking Sentiment and Spread of COVID-19 in New York City" ICCS 2020. The Tenth International Conference on Complex Systems. Boston, MA. July 2020. (Virtual meeting)
* Vanky, A., Jiang, S., Goodspeed, R. Roundtable: “Planning Pedagogy and the Computational Imperative.”, 2019 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference. Greenville, SC. October 2019.
*^Zheng, Y., Yonah Freemark, Jiang, S., Zhao, J. “Nudging Price Information in China’s Residential Real Estate Market.” 2019 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference. Greenville, SC. October 2019.
^Pittman, N., ^Homstad, E., Jiang, S., "Impacts of Extreme Heat on Bike Share Usage in Minneapolis and Boston." 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Washington, D.C., USA, April 2019.
*Jiang, S., “From Bits to Miles: Mining Smartphone Data to Re-Examine the Land Use & Transportation Linkage.” 2018 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY, October 2018.
*Jiang, S., Fan, T. and Zhao, J. “Quantifying the Evolution of Motorization, Consumption Patterns, and Environmental Awareness in Urban China, 2003 to 2013.” 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) International Conference. Mexico City, Mexico, July 2018.
*Jiang, S., Fan, T. and Zhao, J. “Latent Lifestyles and Car Ownership and Usage in Urban China: 2003 to 2013” 12th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference. Xi’an, China, June 2018.
Jiang, S., and Ferreira, J. "Household Activity Profiles, Lifestyles, and Residential Choice: A Case Study of Singapore." 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Boston, MA USA, April 2017.
*#Jiang, S., and Ferreira, J. "Incorporating Latent Lifestyle Classes to Explain and Simulate Household Residential Decisions: A Case Study of Singapore." 14th International Conference on CUPUM. Cambridge, MA USA, July 2015.
*Ferreira, J., Diao, M., Jiang, S., and Zhu, Y. “Extracting Activity Patterns from Cellphones, Points of Interest, and Travel Survey Data.” Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. USA, January 2014
*Jiang, S., and Ferreira, J. “Identifying Dynamic Place Themes from Human Activities and POIs.” The Joint Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) / Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Congress. Dublin, Ireland, July 2013.
*Jiang, S., Gonzalez, M. and Ferreira, J. “Using Temporal Activity Profiles to Enrich Lifestyle Considerations in Urban Modeling.” Symposium on Applied Urban Modelling 2013: Productive and Sustainable City Regions. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, June 2013.
Jiang, S., Ferreira, J., and Gonzalez, M. “Inferring Human Activities by Mining Urban Destinations in Trajectory.” 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles, CA USA, April 2013.
*Jiang, S., Ferreira, J., and Gonzalez, M. "A Tale of Two Cities: In Search of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Human Activities."53rd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Cincinnati, Ohio USA, November, 2012.
Jiang, S., Ferreira, J., and Gonzalez, M. "Linking Human Activity Patterns and Life-Styles with Land Use in the City." 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. New York City, NY USA, February 2012.
*#Jiang, S., Viña-Arias, L., Zegras, C., Ferreira, J., and Gonzalez, M. "Adopting Mobile Phone Data to Justify Urban Models: A Case Study for Lisbon." 2011 MIT Transportation Showcase, Cambridge, MA USA, November, 2011.
*Jiang, S.,Ferreira, J., Schneider, C., and Gonzalez, M. "Individual Mobility Networks from Clusters of Human Activity."NetMob 2011: 2nd Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets & Networks. Cambridge, MA USA, October 2011.
*Jiang, S., Ferreira, J., and Gonzalez, M. "Understanding the Link between Urban Activity Destinations and Human Travel Patterns." 12th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Lake Louise, Canada, July 2011 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).
*Ferreira, J., Zhu, Y., Diao, M., Li, W., and Jiang, S. "Geoportal Platform for Collaborative Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling." 12th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Lake Louise, Canada, July 2011 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).
*Jiang, S., Rodriques, F., Alves, A., Pereira, F., and Ferreira, J. "Towards an Activity-Based Approach for Estimating Travel Destinations." 12th World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).
*Zegras, C., Jiang, S., Martínez, L., and Viegas, J. "Capturing the Value to Finance Transit Systems? Lessons from a Comparative Study of Chicago and Lisbon." The 4th International Conference on Financing Surface Transportation in the U.S.--Forging a Sustainable Future - NOW! New Orleans, LA USA, May 2010.
*Jiang, S., and Zegras, C. "Value to Capture to Sustain Mass Transit? A Case Study of Chicago." 50th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Crystal City, VA USA, October 2009.
*Jiang, S. "Finding Ways out of Congestion for the Chicago Loop: A Micro-simulation Approach." 2008 Transport Chicago Conference, Chicago, IL USA, June 2008 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).
Jiang, S. "Tax Increment Financing—An Option for Funding Public Transit: Theory and Implementation." The 4th Annual Transportation Student Research Symposium, organized by the Massachusetts ITE Chapter and New England Section ITE. Boston University, Boston, MA USA, February 2008.