Cynthia Chen
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Data science, Engineering and design, Infrastructure
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Expertise: Using big data to infer people's travel patterns, biases in big data, creating urban adaptive systems and protecting communities against disruptions, post-COVID public transit system transformation, infrastructure and smart cities, engineering and health, transportation engineering, urban adaptable systems, human mobility pattern analysis
The research at THINK lab answers the following questions:
- What kinds of biases result when we infer people’s travel patterns from big location-based data?
- How can we best leverage interactions within and between infrastructure systems and social systems to support sustainability and resilience?
- How do people, communities and cities evolve over time and reemerge from a disaster?
- How to characterize behaviors that occur on multiple systems of vastly different dynamics?
- How can we design the most effective interventions toward healthier behaviors, sustainable behaviors or achieving one or multiple societal outcomes?
