🔈 [ROLLING] I am highly motivated to work with a PhD student who is interested in the urban AI and/or urban networks system direction, starting Fall 2026. Find more details at PhD Invitation.
🔈 [ROLLING] I am seeking to speak with Network Practitioners (broadly defined)! As part of my research, I’m looking to better understand how practitioners engage with multi-network urban systems—especially when the priorities of one network system impose tradeoffs, barriers, or unintended consequences on others. I’m interested in how people work through data complexity, representation mismatches, infrastructural interdependencies, and overlapping flows, particularly when the systems they work with operate at different scales, speeds, or purposes. Find more details at this LinkedIn Post.
🔈 [NEW] I am hiring a full-time, nine months, Urban AI research associate to start in September, 2025. Interested candidate should apply as soon as possible as the deadline is rolling. Please see application details here. (July, 2025)
💰 [NEW] I am awarded 2025 Michigan Institute of Data & AI in Society PODS grant, co-funded by Microsoft to work on project “Governing AI’s Footprint: A Scalable Human-AI Workflow to Extract Zoning Codes for Data Centers and Renewable Energy Sitting” (July, 2025)
🔈 [NEW] I presented team research “Decoding the Municipal AI Landscape: Generative AI-Driven Insights for AI Governance and Application in the City of Seattle” at CUPUM 2025. (June, 2025)
🔈 [NEW] I am grateful to have the opportunity to present a collection of my research on exploring Human-AI Collaboration at Urban Big Data Centre @ University of Glasgow. (June, 2025)
🔈 [NEW] I am honored to give a seminar talk at UCL CASA to share my thoughts on how human (including planners!) and AI can better collaborate in the future. (June, 2025)
🔈 My course URP 535 Introduction to Urban Informatics is hiring a Graduate Student Instructor (tuition waived + stipend); this is only open to current UMich students. Apply before December 3rd here. (November 27th)
🔈 My students and I presented at Detroit GIS Day! (November 20th)
🔈 I joined Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society as an affiliated faculty! (November 4th)