The Smart Cities and Generative AI Symposium is a day-long gathering of interdisciplinary professionals across academia and industry to inform, examine, and discuss how generative artificial intelligence impacts our cities. Happening at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas, this robust program will feature presenters from multiple universities across… read more
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Ethical AI and Our Future – Lecture Series
Designed to create a campus-wide conversation, the Helen and Jeff Herbert Family University Lecture Series gives first-year students an opportunity to interact with leading members of our faculty—scholars, scientists, and civic leaders who are nationally and internationally renowned. All students, faculty, alumni, staff, and community guests are invited, but the… read more
UIL Researchers @ Global Sandpit
The UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme is the UK’s flagship multi-disciplinary research programme that looks to address the challenge of developing best practices for the design, operation, and governance of trusted and trustworthy autonomous systems for the benefit of society. One of its goals is to establish international collaborations that… read more
Making the most out of sparse data: the case of travel demand calibration
Urban traffic simulators are used by cities worldwide to inform their transportation planning and operations. We discuss the main challenges in the calibration of inputs for stochastic microscopic urban traffic simulators. In particular, we focus on the calibration of travel demand or origin-destination matrices (ODs). The problem is underdetermined, we… read more
Making the most out of sparse data: the case of travel demand calibration
Urban traffic simulators are used by cities worldwide to inform their transportation planning and operations. We discuss the main challenges in the calibration of inputs for stochastic microscopic urban traffic simulators. In particular, we focus on the calibration of travel demand or origin-destination matrices (ODs). The problem is underdetermined, we… read more
An Intersectional Take on the Future of Mobility
Urban life has been increasingly grounded in mobilities as technological advances induce faster, cheaper, and more seamless mobility options. However, people’s experiences of such advances are shaped by their race, gender, class, other socially constructed dimensions, and the intersections of these dimensions. Despite the growing popularity of intersectionality lens, quantitative… read more
An Intersectional Take on the Future of Mobility
Urban life has been increasingly grounded in mobilities as technological advances induce faster, cheaper, and more seamless mobility options. However, people’s experiences of such advances are shaped by their race, gender, class, other socially constructed dimensions, and the intersections of these dimensions. Despite the growing popularity of intersectionality lens, quantitative… read more
The Impact of Commercial District’s Vitality on Cognitive Decline: What Computer Vision and Deep Learning Can Find
The decline in commercial districts in Seoul, South Korea, is worsening because of excessive competition among the self-employed, COVID-19, and a decrease in offline consumption. Assessment of this decline is the first step in presenting strategies for the revitalization of commercial districts. This study explored whether cognitive decline can be… read more
The Impact of Commercial District’s Vitality on Cognitive Decline: What Computer Vision and Deep Learning Can Find
The decline in commercial districts in Seoul, South Korea, is worsening because of excessive competition among the self-employed, COVID-19, and a decrease in offline consumption. Assessment of this decline is the first step in presenting strategies for the revitalization of commercial districts. This study explored whether cognitive decline can be… read more
Design & Analytics System based on Urban Artificial Intelligence
Big data and computational algorithms have gradually become integrated with the built environment and within human’s daily lives, leading to a significant rise in Urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and applications. As such, the proposed Design & Analytics system will develop digital twins and virtual/augmented reality for multi-scaled simulations and… read more