Main Stage Speakers

  • Kent Larson

    Director of MIT City Science

    Kent Larson is an architect, entrepreneur, and academic. He is Director of City Science at MIT Media Lab, with research focused on compact transformable housing, ultralight autonomous mobility systems, sensing and algorithms to recognize and respond to complex human behavior, and advanced modeling, simulation, and tangible interfaces for urban design.

    He has established an international network of affiliated City Science labs in Shanghai, Taipei, Ho Chi Minh City, Toronto, Hamburg, Andorra, and Guadalajara. He and researchers from his MIT lab have twice received the “10-Year Impact Award” from Ubicomp: a “test of time” recognition of work that, with the benefit of hindsight, has had the greatest impact. Kent’s projects have been presented at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC and the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

    Kent’s book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks, was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture by the New York Times Review of Books. He is founder of L3Cities, which brings together metrics, data analytics, real-time simulation, and tangible interfaces to help cities and enterprises create more sustainable, equitable, and entrepreneurial communities. He is cofounder of ORI Living, an architectural robotics company to commercialize systems for dynamically reconfigurable spaces, and advisor to Butlr Technologies, SmartRE, evTS, and other MIT spinoff companies.

    Kent is on the Advisory Board of the Norman Foster Foundation. His online professional education course, "Beyond Smart Cities," is recognized as one of the best resources for those interested in future cities.

  • Senator Ed Markey

    United States Senator for Massachusetts

    For more than 40 years, Senator Markey has served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Congressman and U.S. Senator. He has been a national leader and author of some of the most important laws in the areas of energy, the environment, and telecommunications policy. On a bipartisan basis, he has passed more than 500 pieces of legislation into law. He has been a powerful and effective voice for enhancing energy efficiency, transitioning our economy to clean and sustainable energy resources and mitigating the consequences of climate change; bolstering U.S. and global security by staunching nuclear proliferation and promoting arms control; defending human rights; enacting financial reforms to protect consumers and investors against the types of abuses that directly triggered the global recession; ensuring the continued openness of the internet; and advancing the interests of consumers by injecting competitiveness into electric, telecommunications and telephone markets, and protecting the privacy of personal information.

    Senator Markey currently serves as Chair of the East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chair of the Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee; as well as a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Small Business Committee.

    Senator Markey received his B.A. from Boston College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and two terms in the Massachusetts State House before being elected to Congress.

  • Lord Norman Foster

    Lord Norman Foster

    Founder and Executive Chairman of Foster + Partners

    Norman Foster is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design rooted in sustainability. He devotes much time to the study of cities and their future, leading the United Nations (UN) Forum of Mayors. He has since the 1960s promoted sustainability through his practices with green buildings around the world—airports, museums, hospitals, corporate headquarters, public buildings, skyscrapers and major works of infrastructure. He is President of the Norman Foster Foundation, which promotes interdisciplinary thinking to help new generations of architects, designers, engineers and urbanists to anticipate the future. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999, was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1997 and was granted a Life Peerage in 1999.

  • Dava Newman

    Director of the MIT Media Lab

    Dr. Dava Newman is the Director of the MIT Media Lab and Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Harvard–MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology faculty member. She served as NASA Deputy Administrator (2015-17), the first female engineer in this role, and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Her research and teaching expertise include aerospace biomedical engineering, astronaut performance, advanced space suit design, leadership development, innovation and space policy. Newman has been principal investigator (PI) on four spaceflight missions flown aboard the Space Shuttle, Russian Mir Space Station and the International Space Station, and is best known for her revolutionary BioSuit™ planetary spacesuit. Newman is the author of Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design, an introductory engineering textbook, and has published more than 300 papers in journals and refereed conferences, and holds numerous compression technology patents. She has supervised 90 graduate student theses and supervised and mentored over 200 undergraduate researchers.

  • Mayor Ihor Terekhov

    Kharkiv Mayor

    Ihor Terekhov graduated from Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering with a degree in "Industrial and Civil Engineering" and gained qualification of civil engineer. In 2006 graduated from Kharkiv Regional Institute for Public Administration of the President of Ukraine’s National Academy for Public Administration with a degree in Public Administration and gained qualification of Master of Public Administration.

    For many years of conscientious and fruitful work, high professionalism, significant personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the city Ihor Terekhov has repeatedly been awarded at various levels.

    October 31, 2021 Ihor Terekhov was elected the Mayor of Kharkiv. On November 11, 2021 he entered upon the office.

  • Edward Glaeser

    Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics at Harvard University

    Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics, since 1992. He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities economic growth, law, and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992. His books include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (Oxford University Press, 2008), Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008), Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011), and Survival of the City: Mass Flourishing in an Age of Social Isolation (Penguin Press, 2021).

  • Olga Demianenko

    Director of the Department for Cooperation with International Agencies and Financial Institutions, Kharkiv City Countil

    Graduated from Kyiv National University named after T.G. Shevchenko, Institute of International Relations, specializing in international law and international relations.

    Working in the Kharkiv City Council since 2010, the main functions of work in the city council include the implementation of measures for the formation of local policy in the sphere of cooperation with international financial organizations, banking institutions, agencies, companies, corporations, associations for international cooperation and development, international organizations and other foreign partners, through the coordination and implementation of projects and programs in various spheres of life using own and other resources.

    Carries out a set of activities related to the establishment and development of contacts with international agencies and financial institutions in order to implement priority projects and programs in various spheres of the city's life. Coordination work related to the initiation, preparation and implementation of projects, supported by international agencies and financial institutions. Communication with all project participants during its implementation.

    Creation of a database of promising city programs and projects based on the proposals of the executive bodies of the Kharkiv City Council, analyzes and prepares reasonable conclusions regarding their priority for further implementation.

  • Jacopo Buongiorno

    Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT

    Jacopo Buongiorno is the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Director of Science and Technology of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in thermo-fluids engineering and nuclear reactor engineering. Jacopo has published over 100 journal articles in the areas of reactor safety and design, two-phase flow and heat transfer, and nanofluid technology.

    For his research work and his teaching at MIT, he won several awards, among which a 2022 ANS Presidential Citation, the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship (2014), the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (2011), the ASME Heat Transfer Best Paper Award (2008), and the ANS Mark Mills Award (2001).

    Jacopo is the Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES). In 2016-2018 he led the MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World. Jacopo is a consultant for the nuclear industry in the area of reactor thermal-hydraulics and a member of the Accrediting Board of the National Academy of Nuclear Training. He is also a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) Space Working Group, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (including service on its Special Committee on Fukushima in 2011-2012), a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a past member of the NavalStudies Board (2017-2019), and a participant in the Defense Science Study Group (2014-2015).

  • Manuel Cendoya

    International Advisor on innovation Policy and Science Parks

    Manuel Cendoya is an engineer and international advisor on innovation policy and science parks. He studied at MIT and Imperial College and obtained his PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Navarra. He led the European Union’s 5 year project to transform Panama’s largest American military base into the City of Knowledge to foster technology transfer between Europe and Latin America. He has been a Chief Advisor to the Government of Peru in economic and technological development, as well as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. He founded and was the Executive Director of the San Sebastian Technology Park for 10 years, developing joint projects with Stanford University, the European Space Agency, MIT, and Fraunhofer. He has also combined music and technology, as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Advisory Board for 8 years, a Salzburg Seminar fellow, and a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

  • Maitane Iruretagoyena

    Researcher at MIT City Science

    Maitane Iruretagoyena is a Technical Associate at the City Science Group. She did her studies in Building Engineering and Technical Architecture with a Master’s degree in Sustainable Construction and Energy Efficiency, all of them at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. And also, she holds a Certificate in Interior Design and has experience in construction.

    Within the City Science group, she works on several projects creating visual media designs for art installations, identifying cost-efficient and lightweight infrastructure systems for the deployment in rapidly urbanizing areas, and product designer of hyper-efficient solutions in a micro-living environment.

    Additionally, she worked on several installation for international venues such as the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York ,the Venice Biennale Architettura 2021, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

  • Ronan Doorley

    Research Scientist at MIT City Science

    Ronan is an engineer and data scientist, specializing in spatial analytics and high-resolution modeling of human behavior in cities. As a Research Scientist with the MIT City Science Group, he builds models and simulations to understand and predict urban phenomena such as traffic congestion, accessibility, spatial mismatches and environmental impacts. He is one of the developers of the CityScope platform, a set of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning challenges.

    Ronan earned his Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Transportation Engineering from Trinity College, Dublin. He is the recipient of awards such as the Fulbright Scholarship, the Trinity College Gold Medal and the ICE Reed and Mallik Medal.

  • Naroa Coretti Sanchez

    PhD Student at MIT City Science

    Naroa Coretti's research is focused on designing future mobility modes and understanding their impacts through modeling and simulations. Her work aims to make future cities more walkable and human-centric by incentivizing increased use of active mobility modes. Her current research studies the effects of introducing autonomy on shared micro-mobility systems from the perspectives of vehicle design, fleet-level performance, and environmental impacts.

    Coretti holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Industrial Technologies, and she is currently a Ph.D. student at the MIT City Science group.

  • Diego Lopez Urruchi

    ARB Architect, Computational Designer, LEED AP BD+C at Norman Foster Foundation

    Diego is an Architect graduated from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2004. While working, he has complemented his education with four additional Masters,

    He joined Foster + Partners in 2014 where he worked for 4 years. As an Associate Partner he was involved in a diverse range of projects and competitions.

    With a vast experience and deep interest in Energy and Sustainability, holding the LEED AP BD+C accreditation since 2017, he has collaborated with the Norman Foster Foundation in multiple different projects since 2018.

    He is part of the NFF team collaborating with Advanced Nuclear and Production Experts Group (ANPEG). This group was founded by Norman Foster on behalf of the NFF with the Nuclear Energy Department at MIT (US). Additionally, he is also part of the team collaborating with UNIT 5 at the MeEng in Engineering and Architectural Design UCL.

  • Luis Alonso Pastor

    Research Scientist at MIT City Science

    Luis Alonso is a research scientist in the City Science group and Principal Investigator of the Andorra Living Lab Project. He has a PhD in architecture and coordinates the Andorra Living Lab project. He oversees the integration of the group's diverse research topics (energy consumption, city simulation, urban mobility, innovation district, and smart housing) in City Science Network of Collaborative Cities, to provide comprehensive solutions for urban and country challenges, in order to transform cities into more diverse and vibrant "human scale ecosystems."

    Since he is focused on very different lines of research and work, his antidisciplinary approach fits on the Media Lab philosophy: City Science, urban indicators, big data analysis, urban planning, architectural robotics, building design and construction, new and smart materials (free-form transparent energy efficient envelopes and biomedical uses), energy simulation and building efficiency and sustainability, eco-innovation, e-learning and its impact on social networks, new technologies, IoT, etc.

  • Alex Berke

    PhD Student at MIT City Science

    Alex Berke is a PhD student in the MIT Media Lab's City Science group. Her background is in math and computer science. Before coming to the Media Lab, she worked in industry at the intersection of tech and social impact, at organizations ranging from small startups, to political campaigns, to large companies.

    Her current research focuses on cities, sustainability, data privacy, and ways to democratize access to big data to serve the public good.

  • Andres Rico Medina

    PhD Student at MIT City Science

    Andres is a graduate student from Mexico City at the MIT Media Lab with a background in Robotics, AI and Innovation. His main research goal is to understand ways in which we can better develop our urban sensing infrastructure. As an undergraduate student, he co-founded an innovation firm (OGMA D+I) and was a member of MITʼs Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program in Monterrey, Mexico where he worked with city stakeholders on the development of the regionʼs innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. His current work at MIT is focused on the development of low-cost, distributed and opportunistic sensor networks. The sensors and algorithms have the goal of enabling bottom-up community based insights that can improve future cities's socio-environmental performance.

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Panelists

  • Leehter Yao

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Taipei

    Leehter Yao received Ph.D. degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A., in 1992. Since 1992, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, where he is currently a Chair Professor. He was the president of the same university from 2011 to 2017. Since 2015, he has been the Academician of Russia International Academy of Engineering. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent control, and smart grid.

  • Mayra Gamboa

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

    Mayra Gamboa is a Professor at the University of Guadalajara and leads the initiative of the City Science lab@Guadalajara. She received a Ph.D in Urban Planning and Sustainability from the University of Guadalajara and has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has been a consultant of the UN-Habitat office in Mexico. Mayra has worked in both public and private sectors and her areas of research focus on understanding the dynamics of informal growth and urban inequality, design of public spaces, and daily mobility.

  • Gesa Ziemer

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Hamburg

    Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. Phil.) is director of the City Science Lab, a collaboration with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge/USA and academic lead of the technology and innovation lab UNITAC for the United Nations. She is professor of Cultural Theory at the HafenCity University Hamburg. Her research is focused on Digital City Science, new forms of collaboration and public spaces. She received the Humboldt Foundation grant for the Feodor-Lynen Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge/USA and is member of the Scientific Council of Germany.

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  • Andres Rico Medina

    PhD Student at MIT City Science

    Andres is a graduate student from Mexico City at the MIT Media Lab with a background in Robotics, AI and Innovation. His main research goal is to understand ways in which we can better develop our urban sensing infrastructure. As an undergraduate student, he co-founded an innovation firm (OGMA D+I) and was a member of MITʼs Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program in Monterrey, Mexico where he worked with city stakeholders on the development of the regionʼs innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. His current work at MIT is focused on the development of low-cost, distributed and opportunistic sensor networks. The sensors and algorithms have the goal of enabling bottom-up community based insights that can improve future cities's socio-environmental performance.

  • Maggie Church

    Program Coordinator at MIT City Science

    As Program Coordinator for the City Science team, Margaret is responsible for research coordination, events and workshops. She also helps with communications and proposals for the City Science Network, a group of international cities striving to create more livable and equitable communities. In addition she co-organizes the annual City Science Summit with local teams.

    Before working in City Science, she worked in the Camera Culture group as the Coordinator for the Emerging Worlds Special Interest Group which focused on low cost, deployable technology for emerging economies.

  • Hossein Rahnama

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Toronto

    Hossein's research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer interaction, and the design of privacy-preserved data-driven services. He has written more than 30 publications and received 23 patents. He served as a council member at National Science and Research Engineering Council of Canada and is currently serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing and the Home Capital Group. In 2012, MIT Technology Review selected him as one of its global TR35 list. In 2017, he was selected as part of Canada's 40 under 40. In addition to his work at Ryerson University, Hossein is also the Founder/CEO of Flybits and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab.

  • Ariane Bertrand

    Director, Thriving Communities at Emerson Collective

    Ariane Bertrand leads Emerson Collective’s Thriving Communities team. The focus of their work is to collaborate with the community and City to bring resources, ideas and partnerships that benefit East Palo Alto and its residents. She is passionate about ensuring everyone has a voice in creating the best future for themselves and their community, especially encouraging those voices that have been disproportionately overlooked. Prior to this role, Ariane was the Director of the Environmental Justice portfolio at Emerson Collective.

    Ariane has also worked at a variety of organizations including the Peninsula Open Space Trust where she served as the Land Manager and the Coyote Creek Riparian Station as the Assistant Director. She has also worked at College Track in East Palo Alto as the Director for Student Life and then the Development Director.

    She received her Masters degree in Energy and Environmental Analysis from Boston University and her Bachelors degree from UC Davis in Environmental Biology and Management.

  • Fernando Perez

    Project Director at Corporacion Ciudades

    Architect and Master in Urban Design and City Planning at the University College London. Nowadays is the Corporación Ciudades and the CityLab Biobío Project Director in Chile. In the last nine years, he has been working in more than 15 Urban Plans for Chilean cities and actively participating in different initiatives related to participatory design in a urban projects context. Fernando has a special interest in the implementation of new technologies that seek to promote urban development and improve people's quality of life.

  • Jordi Ascensi

    Head of Technology & PMO Andorra Research + Innovation

    ordi Ascensi-Sala is currently working as Head of Technology and PMO at Andorra Research + Innovation (AR+I), the leading research and innovation agency from the Principality of Andorra and house of the City Science Lab@Andorra. The focus of his work is related to the management of AR+I’s projects portfolio and roadmap and the Technology area leadership. His main topic of research are the relations and implications of ethics and technology while acting as a technical representative and focal point of Andorra for organizations such as UNESCO and the Council of Europe. He has more than 20 years of experience in Strategy, Innovation and Project management roles related to Information Technologies platforms, networks and systems, in several sectors and geographical locations.

    He holds a Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from UPC-Barcelona Tech, a MBA from HEC Montreal, and he is actually enrolled in a Masters Degree in Philosophy for the Contemporary Challenges from the Open University of Catalonia.

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Network Directors

  • Kent Larson

    Director of MIT City Science

    Kent’s research focuses on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities. To that end, his projects include advanced simulation and augmented reality for urban design, transformable micro-housing for millennials, and mobility-on-demand systems that create alternatives to private automobiles. Kent also directs the City Science network, a global network striving to enable more livable, equitable and resilient communities.

  • Leehter Yao

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Taipei

    Leehter Yao received Ph.D. degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A., in 1992. Since 1992, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, where he is currently a Chair Professor. He was the president of the same university from 2011 to 2017. Since 2015, he has been the Academician of Russia International Academy of Engineering. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent control, and smart grid.

  • Mayra Gamboa

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

    Mayra Gamboa is a Professor at the University of Guadalajara and leads the initiative of the City Science lab@Guadalajara. She received a Ph.D in Urban Planning and Sustainability from the University of Guadalajara and has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has been a consultant of the UN-Habitat office in Mexico. Mayra has worked in both public and private sectors and her areas of research focus on understanding the dynamics of informal growth and urban inequality, design of public spaces, and daily mobility.

  • Gesa Ziemer

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Hamburg

    Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. Phil.) is director of the City Science Lab, a collaboration with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge/USA and academic lead of the technology and innovation lab UNITAC for the United Nations. She is professor of Cultural Theory at the HafenCity University Hamburg. Her research is focused on Digital City Science, new forms of collaboration and public spaces. She received the Humboldt Foundation grant for the Feodor-Lynen Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge/USA and is member of the Scientific Council of Germany.

  • Marc Pons

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Andorra

    Marc Pons is the Director of Andorra Research + Innovation. He is also a Telecommunications Engineer, holds a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy and a PhD in Science and Technology from UPC and McGill University in Montreal. Throughout his professional career he has specialised in research and innovation in snow and mountain environment and in the modeling of systems in different fields such as energy, mobility, tourism and water dynamics. Pons has worked and collaborated on several international projects (Canada, USA, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy), is an associate researcher at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and co-founder of Nivorisk Innovation.

  • Yongqi LOU

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Shanghai

    Prof. Dr. Yongqi LOU is a Vice President and Dean of the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai, the Board Director of World Design Organization (WDO) and the Vice President of China Industrial Design Association. Lou has been the pioneer in China for design-driven innovation education, research and practices that connect design, business, and technology. He is the founder of Design Harvests, a design-driven urban-rural interaction project; Tongji-Huangpu School of Design and Innovation, the first design thinking K12 school in China; and She Ji — the Journal of Design, Innovation, and Economics published by Tongji and Elsevier. He is the Editorial Board Member of the journal Design Issues published by The MIT Press. Lou was elected as a fellow of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 2019.

  • Hossein Rahnama

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Toronto

    Hossein's research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer interaction, and the design of privacy-preserved data-driven services. He has written more than 30 publications and received 23 patents. He served as a council member at National Science and Research Engineering Council of Canada and is currently serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing and the Home Capital Group. In 2012, MIT Technology Review selected him as one of its global TR35 list. In 2017, he was selected as part of Canada's 40 under 40. In addition to his work at Ryerson University, Hossein is also the Founder/CEO of Flybits and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab.

  • Anh Vu Ngo

    Director of the City Science Lab @ Ho Chi Minh City

    Working at the Urban Planning Institute since 1997, Mr. Ngo Anh Vu has participated in different projects: industrial parks, amusement parks, education, culture, healthcare, urban design & planning. He has experience working with international corporations, and government agencies.

    As a manager and executive, Mr. Vu creates an innovative working style, active cooperation, and is full of energy.

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Network Labs

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Summit Team and Organizers

  • Maggie Church

    MIT City Science
    Program Coordinator

  • Cristina Panzarini

    MIT City Science
    Administration

  • Gabriela Bila Advincula

    MIT City Science
    Researcher/ Designer

  • Maitane Iruretagoyena

    MIT City Science
    Technical Associate

  • Candy Huff

    Celsius

  • Sheldon Levy

    CSL@Toronto
    Advisor to Federal Government of Canada, Former Board Member of Toronto Waterfront

  • GE Jiwen

    CSL@Shanghai
    Research Assistant

  • ChaoChin Su

    CSL@Taipei
    Director of the First Institute of Research for Science & Technology at Taipei Tech

  • Nam Le

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Senior Lecturer
    Chair of Urban Analytics and Asset Management Institute of Smart City and Management (ISCM), University of Economics (UEH)

  • Ixchel Figueroa

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate and Program Coordinator

  • WANG Can

    CSL@Shanghai
    Research Assistant

  • Imanuel Schipper

    CSL@Hamburg
    Research Associate

  • Gerardo Mendizabal

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences at UdeG

  • Hải Hoàng

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Program Coordinator

  • Mónica Gómez

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate, Professor, Department of Representation at UdeG

  • Naroa Coretti Sanchez

    MIT City Science
    Research Assistant

  • Gamaliel Palomo

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate, Computer Lab, Cinvestav Gdl

  • Quang Long Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Director of VLAB Joint Stock Company (VLAB J.S.C)

  • Luis Alonso Pastor

    MIT City Science
    Research Scientist

  • Freya Xie

    CSL@Taipei
    Project Assistant

  • Jordi Ascenci

    CSL@Andorra
    PMO Manager

  • Luke Jiang

    CSL@Taipei
    Research & Development Engineer

  • HUANG Shuting

    CSL@Shanghai
    Intern

  • Chih-Hong Huang

    CSL@Taipei
    Professor in the Department of Architecture, National Taipei University of Technology

  • Cristina Hernandez

    Celsius

  • Tiep Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh CIty
    Director of Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MMlab)

  • Eduardo Delgado

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate, Architecture and Human Body

  • GAO Zhiyuan

    CSL@Shanghai
    Intern

  • Pham Thai Son

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Senior Lecturer, Sustainable Urban Development program (SUD), Vietnamese-German University (VGU)

  • Yan (Ryan) Zhang

    MIT City Science
    Research Assistant

  • Tu Anh Trinh

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Director of Institute of Smart City, University of Economics

  • ZHANG Shengchen

    CSL@Shanghai
    Research Assistant

  • Justin Zhang

    CSL@Taipei
    Research & Development Engineer

  • Tham Huynh

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher

  • Richard Lachman

    CSL@Toronto
    Associate Professor, Digital Media in the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University

  • Ho-Chiao Chuang

    CSL@Taipei
    Dean of Research & Development at Taipei Tech

  • Raquel Padilla

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Assistant in Urban Planning

  • Quang Nguyen Dang

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh CIty
    Deputy Director of the Architecture Research Center (ARC)

  • LI Jiajie

    CSL@Shanghai
    Intern

  • Thanh Binh Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Architect at Ho Chi Minh City Urban Planning Institute

  • Holger Prang

    CSL@Hamburg
    Research Associate / Research Program and Transfer

  • WANG Siqi

    CSL@Shanghai
    Research Assistant

  • David Kao

    CSL@Toronto
    Flybits - Scale AI program

  • Ngoc Ha Ho

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher

  • Carlos Vega

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate, Professor, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences at UdeG

  • Hung Nguyen Duy

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Director of Architecture Research Center (ARC)

  • LIU Yang

    CSL@Shanghai
    Lab Manager

  • Kochiu Wu

    CSL@Taipei
    Professor in the Department of Interaction Design, National Taipei University of Technology

  • Veljko Lukovic

    CSL@Toronto
    Flybits - Scale AI program

  • Lucas Seixas

    RIBS + SEIXAS

  • ZHANG Linyue

    CSL@Shanghai
    Research Assistant

  • Hilke Marit Berger

    CSL@Hamburg
    Research Associate and Urban Innovation Specialist UNITAC

  • Alejandro Lepe

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Assistant, Geographic Information Systems

  • Isa Shreeve

    Celsius
    Operations

  • Ariel Noyman

    MIT City Science
    Research Scientist

  • Sarah Pieper

    CSL@Hamburg
    Project Development and Lab Management

  • Markus ElKatsha

    MIT City Science
    Research Scientist

  • Vanesa Arroyo

    CSL@Andorra
    Living Lab Coordinator

  • Rico Herzog

    CSL@Hamburg
    Research Associate

  • Leticia Izquierdo

    MIT City Science
    Research Assistant

  • LI Chengliang

    CSL@Shanghai
    Research Assistant

  • AN Qiyuan

    CSL@Shanghai
    Intern

  • Marc Font

    CSL@Andorra
    Andorra Biosphere Reserve Project Manager

  • Annika Kuhn

    CSL@Hamburg

  • Tiep Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Director of Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MMlab)

  • Vincy Xiao

    MIT City Science
    Research Assistant

  • Carson Smuts

    MIT City Science
    Research Scientist

  • Jue Ma

    CSL@Shanghai

    Research Assistant

  • Pham Thai Son

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Senior Lecturer, Sustainable Urban Development Program (SUD), Vietnamese-German University (VGU)

  • Caleb Shreeve

    Caleb Shreeve

    Celsius

  • Quang Long Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Head of Data team

  • Nicola Stradtmann

    CSL@Hamburg

  • Hai Hoang

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Program Coordinator

  • Thomas Sanchez

    MIT City Science
    Research Scientist

  • Cong Dinh Luong

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Head of Urban Planning Department at Ho Chi Minh City Urban Planning Institute

  • Thi Thao Pham

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Head of Technical Infrastructure at Ho Chi Minh City Urban Planning Institute

  • Sophie Naue

    CSL@Hamburg

  • Jimmy Day

    MIT Media Lab
    Media Producer

  • Tran Than Duy Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Project Lead of Ho Chi Minh City Urban Planning Institute

  • Teresa Olano

    MIT City Science
    Visiting Student

  • Viet Dung Dang

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Architect of Ho Chi Minh City Urban Planning Institute

  • Hoang Hien Dao

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Architect at Ho Chi Minh City Urban Planning Institute

  • Michael Lin

    MIT City Science
    Research Scientist

  • Thi Cam Van Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher at Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies (HIDS)

  • Daniel Schulz

    CSL@Hamburg

  • Mai Khiem Tran

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher

  • Ainhoa Genua

    MIT City Science
    Research Assistant

  • Danh Nguyen

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher

  • Larissa Perez Galindo

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Description Research Assistant in Urban planing

  • David Robertson

    MIT City Science
    Administration

  • Johanna Fischer

    CSL@Hamburg

  • Alejandra Encinar

    MIT City Science
    Visiting Student

  • Tan Le

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher

  • Pedro Ribs

    RIBS + SEIXAS

  • Juan Rodolfo Alvarez Padilla

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Associate, Professor in Control Systems Engineering at University of Guadalajara

  • Ba Quoc Thai

    CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
    Researcher

  • Monica Camas

    CSL@Guadalajara
    Research Assitant, Department of Water and Energy Studies, University of Guadalajara