Growing amounts of data are available in multiple organizations in a city. Cities must begin and/or continue to share data across internal and external organizations to insure intelligent utilization of precious funds, assets and resources. Furthermore, cities must be able to assess and understand cross-organizational and cross-vertical impacts resulting from… read more
Intelligent Infrastructure will enable Industry 4.0
The next Industrial Revolution is Industry 4.0 which enables previously unrealized economic efficiencies and commercial growth; the creation of new industries and millions of jobs; and national security and resilience. Industry 4.0 requires the bridging of the physical and the digital. The convergence of edge computing, NextG, ITS, and IoT… read more
Urban Health Risk Mapping
This project developed an AI system that can measure the health effects of neighborhood environments in ten major US cities using citizen crowd-sourced data. The research team mapped the computed health risk scores at the census tract-level for all selected municipalities and also built an interactive website that allows users… read more
Sustainable Urban Freight Transport with Autonomous Zero-Emission Vessels
The massive under-exploitation of inland waterways in Europe north sea region, especially in and around urban environments, provides opportunities for technological innovations. In this talk, Yusong will introduce the on-going INTERREG North Sea Region project AVATAR and the relevant research and development at the Researchlab Autonomous Shipping of Delft University… read more
Social Media Information Sharing for Natural Disaster Response
Social media has become an essential channel for posting disaster-related information, which provides governments and relief agencies real-time data for better disaster management. However, research in this field has not received sufficient attention, and extracting useful information is still challenging. The work will be presented aims to improve disaster relief… read more
Privacy Challenges in Smart Home Computer Vision
Smart surveillance or smart home cameras, such as Amazon Echo and Nest Cam, are now found in millions of locations to remotely link users to their homes or offices, providing monitoring services to enhance security and/or notify environment changes, as well as lifelogging and intelligent services. Such a prevalence of… read more
Countering Misinformation and Disinformation
Older adults are especially vulnerable to believing and circulating disinformation online, and we want to enable this population to use social media more responsibly. We aim to do that in three ways. First, our research will investigate what kinds of disinformation is most widely believed by older adults – what… read more
Data Assimilation for Flood Real Time Estimation: Challenges and Methods
Flash floods are one of the most common natural disasters worldwide, causing thousands of casualties every year. A combination of fixed and mobile sensors can be used to track these events. In particular, the emergence of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) could enable the monitoring of floods over large geographical areas.… read more
Quantifying and Mitigating Sources of Bias in AI Decision-Support Systems
AI technologies have transformed optimization and automation in complex decision-making settings, and have created a new paradigm for the role of AI in smart cities. These technologies are increasingly utilized in critical social, urban, and mobility systems to perform or inform resource allocation and urban planning tasks. Therefore, it is… read more
Smarter Cities in the AWS Cloud
Smart cities around the world are collecting and using data to make decisions in real or near real-time to better serve citizens, protect our environment, and lower costs. Most smart city solutions rely on a combination of core technologies (compute, storage, databases, and data warehouses) and advanced technologies (big data… read more