Half-day Workshop - November 3, 2026 Workshop Program
- Date: November 3, 2026
- Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Location: RC D
Program Schedule
| Time | Session |
|---|
| 2:00 PM - 2:10 PM | Opening |
| 2:10 PM - 3:20 PM | Session 1 (Paper Presentations)
1. AQIoT: Insights from Low-Cost IoT Air Pollution Sensors Deployed in an Urban Environment
Chentao Fan, Brian Krupp
2. Measuring Healthcare Accessibility and Resilience for Smart and Connected Rural Communities: A Florida Panhandle Case Study
Dahai Yu, Zhe He, Amber DeJohn, Xinyue Ye, Guang Wang
3. CLIPPER Beyond Shortlisting: Auditable Decision Support for Changing Municipal Micromobility Policies
Julian Teusch, Jörg P. Müller, Monika Sester
4. A Spatial Decision Support System for Evaluating POI Addition Suitability via Peer-Relative Context
Yen-Tso Chen, Chien-Yu Yang, Xu-Lin Chen, An Syu Li, Yi-Chung Chen
5. Enriching Semantic 3D City Models with Traffic and Street Network Data for Urban Digital Twins
Lukas Arzoumanidis, Nicole Schneider, Lena Hildebrandt, Hanan Samet, Youness Dehbi |
| 3:20 PM - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Keynote |
| 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM | Session 2 (Paper Presentations)
1. Spatial Intelligence Blind Spots: Auditing Open Geospatial Data for Urban Service Accessibility and Decision Stability
Florina Dutt, Subhajit Das
2. Where Guidance Happens: Toward a Knowledge Graph of Situated Orientation and Mobility Instruction
Roland Aranas, Jina Kim, Shiven Pandya, Jiajin Huang, Hyunjoong Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang, Jonggi Hong
3. Multilingual Agent System for Inclusive Wildfire Evacuation Guidance
Shruti Kulkarni, Lynn Tong, Aditi Namboodiripad, Chelyah Miller, Helen Lin, Peeyush Patel, Bogdan Bistriceanu, Diane Myung-kyung Woodbridge
4. Finding Effective Vaccine Distribution Strategies: A Retroactive Study of COVID-19 in New York City
Nitin Kanchikacham, Nicole Schneider, Hanan Samet |
| 5:50 PM - 6:00 PM | Awards and Closing |
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Ryan Qi Wang
Title
Spatial Intelligence for Mobility and Resilient Communities
Abstract
Human mobility connects people to essential services, social relationships, and opportunities. It also reveals how communities experience sudden shocks, such as disasters, and persistent stresses, such as inequality and social isolation. This talk introduces our research on spatial intelligence for understanding these challenges, with a particular focus on mobility and independence in an ageing society. Drawing on large-scale mobility data and cross-national longitudinal studies, we examine how ageing communities access essential services and how walking capability changes across populations. These studies reveal inequalities in both the environments people navigate and their capacity to move independently. Together, they motivate an approach to community resilience that accounts for changing mobility needs throughout later life. The talk concludes with emerging opportunities for spatial AI to represent diverse mobility capabilities and support the design of accessible, age-inclusive communities.
Short Bio
Dr. Ryan Qi Wang is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, where he is also affiliated with the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. His research combines human mobility, spatial AI, and computational urban science to understand community resilience. His work spans disaster response, access to essential services, environmental exposure, and mobility in ageing populations. His research has appeared in interdisciplinary journals including Nature Cities, Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, and Nature Health, as well as AI venues including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACM Sigspatial, CVPR, etc.
Headshot
Prof. Ryan Qi Wang - Northeastern University
Awards
- Best Paper Award
- Best Community Impact Paper Award
