April 2025. Congrats to the Haoyu He who won the COE PhD Research Award and Nail Bashan who won the CEE PhD Teaching Award. Good jobs!
July 2024. Ryan Wang (Lead PI), collaborating with Yanzhi Wang at Northeastern Univ., Eric Du at the University of Florida, and Chen Chen at the University of Virginia, receives an NSF SCC award to study human mobility and urban planning for the aging population. Here is the abstract of the grant.
July 2024. Check out our new research article published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
April 2024. Xinhua Wu received PhD Outstanding Teaching Award for an exceptional ability to communicate ideas and concepts in the classroom and a talent for inspiring students. Congratulations Xinhua!
November 2023. Yanchao Wang has successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Yanchao!
August 2023. Welcome Dr. Weiyu Li to join the lab as a postdoc researcher.
June 2023. Welcome Ruoxi Wang, a visiting PhD student from Tsinghua University, to visit my lab.
May 2023. Ryan Wang is selected 2023 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow at Northeastern University. The Faculty Fellowship program recognizes promising associate professors in the college. Recipients have demonstrated both outstanding achievement and the potential for leadership in their respective departments, the college, the university, and in their discipline.
May 2023. Ryan Wang visited the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and delivered a seminar on "Strengthening Urban Communities: The Role of Mobility in Fostering Social Resilience."
Jan. 2023. Ryan Wang and Yanchao Wang traveled to the 2023 TRB Conference. We presented our poster on "Exploring biases in travel behavior patterns in big passively generated mobile data from 11 U.S. cities."
Welcome Nail Furkan Bashan, a new Ph.D. student to the Lab!
August 2022. Ryan Wang (Lead PI), collaborating with Daniel Aldrich, Kelsey Pieper at Northeastern, and Jundong Li at the University of Virginia, receives an NSF SAI award to study human mobility, social capital, and well water quality. Here are the abstract of the grant and the report on the projects funded by the NSF SAI program.
August 2022. Our collaborative work is published in PNAS. The study designs a new spatiotemporal decay model that universally captures human mobility behaviors during different types of public crises.
July 2022. Pu Ren has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He will join UC Berkeley as a postdoc. Congratulations Pu!
New studies on COVID have been published in Chaos, Royal Society A, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Congratulations to all the authors!
May 2022. Fangzheng "Andy" Sun has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He will join Amazon as a Data Scientist. Congratulations Fangzheng!
December 2021. Armin Akhavan, co-advised by Ryan Wang, has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Armin!
December 2021. Lele Luan, co-advised by Ryan Wang, has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He will join GE Research in Jan. Congratulations Lele.
October 2021. Our collaborative work is published in Scientific Reports. The study reveals racial disparities in vaccination intentions.
October 2021. Ryan Qi Wang (PI) and his colleagues at Northeastern and LSU received a $1.5m NSF grant to understand the dynamics of human mobility and its impacts on air pollution exposure. Ph.D. and Postdoc positions are available!
September 2021. The lab, collaborating with Prof. Cynthia Chen and Shuai Huang at UW, received an NSF grant to understand bias and uncertainty in mobility data.
July 2021. Our work, a collaboration with Prof. Mario Small and Mo Torres at Harvard University, is published in Nature Human Behaviour.
June 2021. Our study, collaborating with Prof. Wenying Ji and Yudi Chen (at GMU), has been selected as the 2021 Honorable Mention Award by the Journal of Management in Engineering. Congrats team!
June 2021. Check out our article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. It is a fun collaboration with people from Northeastern University, RPI, Ryerson University, etc.
May 2021. Funded by IARPA ($1 million) and collaborating with three other researchers at Northeastern University, Ryan Wang lab will work on predicting COVID-19 using human mobility and geosocial networks. We are looking for PhD students and postdocs!
May 2021. Alex Hengfang Deng has successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Alex!
Spring 2021. Check out our co-authored articles on transportation diversity and intraurban mobility, crime and mobility, and dockless bikeshare in Boston.
January 2021. The lab is awarded a project from the Internet Society Foundation. The project, titled "The Carbon Footprint of Airbnb," seeks to address the lack of research on the climate impacts of the sharing platform Airbnb with a four-person interdisciplinary team of social scientists and engineers from Boston College (Juliet Schor), Northeastern (Özlem Ergun, Qi Wang), and Fairfield (Mehmet Cansoy).
August 2020. Our study, collaborating with Prof. Wenying Ji and Yudi Chen (at GMU), is selected as the Editor's Choice in the Journal of Management in Engineering.
May 2020. The lab is awarded two NSF RAPID grants on mobility prediction and neighborhood effects to study COVID-19.
May 2020. The lab is awarded $65,000 of AWS credits to study COVID-19 diffusion through human mobility.
January 2020. Bita Sadeghinasr is joining Telsa for a six-month internship. Congratulations on the great opportunity, Bita.
July 31, 2019. Ryan Wang and Farrokh Jazizadeh (Virginia Tech) co-hosted 2019 BUILDING BLOCKS OF SMARTER CITIES WORKSHOP.
“We wanted to bring people together to figure out what are the fundamental building blocks that we can work on together,” said Wang. The conference joined researchers and program officers from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Georgia Tech, MIT Media Lab, Uber, Tufts University, the University of Washington, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the University of California, Berkley, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. “We intentionally chose to have a diverse group. Almost no one knew each other before,” said Wang, who identified the diverse and interdisciplinary character of the conference’s attendees as one of its core strengths.
June 29, 2019. Yanchao Wang married to his wife, Yizhen Wang! The bridegroom rejoices over his bride! Congratulations and best wishes to the new couple!!
June 18, 2019. Bita Sadeghinasr presented at the 2019 i3CE conference. It is her first presentation at an academic conference and she nailed it!! Congratulations Bita!
May 2019. Bita Sadeghinasr and Armin Akhavan are offered full-time summer fellowships at MAPC. Armin will continue to investigate urban accessibility and Bita will be analyzing dockless biking data in Boston. Congratulations Bita and Armin.
March 13, 2019. Ryan Wang presented the lab's research at the 2019 OB-19 Symposium.
November 2018. A project between the Lab and MAPC (Metropolitan Area Planning Council) will examine multimodal accessibility and on-demand mobility. Mr. Armin Akhavan will be the investigator on the project. Congrats Armin!
October 2018. Collaborating with Prof. Dan O'Brien and Dr. Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Urban Informatics and Resilience Lab will work with MassDOT and MBTA to study rider behaviors of the Boston public transit systems and examine their resilience during adversary weathers. Mr. Alex Deng will be the investigator on the project.
August 2018. Mr. Yanchao Wang joins our lab for his Ph.D. study. Welcome Yanchao!
July 9, 2018. Our research on urban mobility and social isolation is published in PNAS and featured on Northeastern University news! It is also reported by SFGate and CityLab.
June 1, 2018. Eyup Koc joins our lab as a visiting scholar. Eyup is a Ph.D. student at the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California. He will stay for this summer. Welcome Eyup!
May 27, 2018. Collaborating with Prof. Eric Jing Du (Texas A&M) and Prof. Yingzi Lin (Northeastern University), Urban Informatics and Resilience Lab has been selected as the Award Recipient of the NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program 2018. The project will extend our NSF project (#1761950) to investigate long-term spatial ability of first responders.
May 14, 2018. Collaborating with Prof. Eric Jing Du (Texas A&M) and Prof. Yingzi Lin (Northeastern University), Urban Informatics and Resilience Lab is awarded an NSF project, titled "Collaborative Research: Personalized Systems for Wayfinding for First Responders".
May 1, 2018. Mr. Yi Du and Ms. Ge Zu graduated with their Master degrees! Congratulations and best lucks for their future adventures!
April 27, 2018. Prof. Qi Ryan Wang delivered a speak on the "Understanding Inequality: New Methods and their Insights" panel at the BARI's (Boston Area Research Initiative) Spring Conference 2018
April 4, 2018. Edgar Castro, undergraduate research assistant, presented our research on "An Open Transportation Network Resilience Analytics Platform for Large-Scale Urban Accessibility Analysis" at the Construction Research Congress (CRC) 2018, New Orleans.
January 30, 2018. Safety Science published our paper titled "Measuring the cognitive loads of construction safety sign designs during selective and sustained attention", a work collaborating with researchers from City University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University.
January 1, 2018. Welcome Alex Hengfeng Deng and Sahar Mirzaee to join the group! Alex is a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Engineering, College of Engineering. Sahar is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy.
September 1, 2017. Welcome Bita Sadeghinasr and Armin Akhavan to join the lab! Bita is a Ph.D. fellow in Civil Engineering, College of Engineering. Armin is a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Engineering, College of Engineering.