[The 10th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 10:00am-11:30am (Japan Standard Time), March 8 (Friday), 2024
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room
3) Presentation
Title: Urban Sociophysical Resilience: Modeling the Interplay of Human Dynamics and Infrastructure Systems during Disasters
Abstract: Cities are the main engines of productivity, innovation, and cultural diversity, owing to their ability to foster dense social and economic connections among people and organizations. However, cities are also at the forefront of unprecedented challenges, including increased frequency of climate change induced disasters, novel mobility technology, and growing inequality and segregation. To build urban resilience to such challenges, we need to understand better the cascading socioeconomic impacts of shocks, which are undergirded by complex interdependencies between social networks, urban infrastructure, and online systems. Leveraging the increasing availability of large-scale human behavior data collected from mobile devices (e.g., mobile phone GPS, social media, web search), I study the resilience of cities using a sociophysical systems lens. In this talk, I will discuss the results from my research on the resilience of cities to climate change induced disasters, focusing on the impacts of complex interdependencies between social dynamics and infrastructure systems. I will also introduce my ongoing research on the resilience of economic networks, and future vision on cross-city transfer learning approaches to prepare cities for unprecedented shocks.
4) Short bio of presenter
Dr. Takahiro Yabe is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress and Department of Technology Management and Innovation at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Media Lab working with Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and Esteban Moro. Taka’s research develops data-driven methods to understand collective social dynamics during disruptions and to model the resilience of complex urban systems to natural hazards, pandemics, and mobility technology. His recent works have been published in journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Machine Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University and his Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Tokyo.
5) Charge: free
6) Language: English only