Recent News
January 2026
I have officially joined the HKUST(GZ) Thrust of Urban Governance and Design! Check my faculty profile here.
December 2025
Delivered an invited guest lecture "Visual AI beyond imagery for the Urban Being" at Seoul National University and Hanyang University.
November 2025
US life has come to an end! Goodbye Senseable City Lab. I can't wait to see what the future holds. Stay tuned!
November 2025
Delivered an invited talk "Leveraging Al for megacity planning" at the AI for Good webinar by the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
October 2025
Delivered an invited talk "Data-driven Urban Design and the Senseable City" at the Better World by Design 2025 at Brown and RISD.
October 2025
Participated as an Instructor of the URBAN AI Academy to lead a three-session “LLM-Augmented Urban Planning” module.
September 2025
Published a co-1st author article "Urban visual uniqueness: A landmark-free framework to quantify city's identity and distinctiveness from everyday scenes" in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Available online!
September 2025
Delivered an invited talk "Generative AI Applications and Implications for Urban Research" at the Korea Planning Association. Recording available here!
July 2025
Published a co-authored article "User-centered evaluation of visual generative AI for city design: an exploratory technology acceptance model analysis" in Cognition, Technology & Work. Available online!
July 2025
Delivered an invited talk "Urban analytics for human-centered design and management" at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering.
April 2025
I accepted an offer from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and will be joining the Thrust of Urban Governance and Design as an assistant professor in January 2026!
March 2025
Recent piece "Bringing Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities to life with AI" highlights the transformative power of AI tools in translating literary imagination into vivid urban visions as well as democratizing the creative process for non-designers to visualize possible cityscapes. Please take a read (link) !
February 2025
Delivered a guest lecture on "Visual AI, hands-on workshop" in the course 11.320 Digital City Design Workshop at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
January 2025
Published a 1st author article "Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach" in Social Science Research. Available online!