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.

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.

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 has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has been a consultant of the UN-Habitat office in Mexico. She 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.

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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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.

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.

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.

Director of the City Science Lab @ Ho Chi Minh City

Kien has diverse experience in different field of work, including higher education, design and government management. His area of focus are disruptive initiatives in urban planning and management. In 2020, Kien received the National Outstanding Young Public Servant Award from the National Central Committee of the Communist Youth Union. In the same year, he was also named as one of 12 Typical Young Citizens of Ho Chi Minh City by the City People’s Committee.

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.

MIT City Science
Program Coordinator

MIT City Science
Research Scientist

CSL@Taipei
Project Assistant

MIT City Science
Researcher/ Designer

CSL@Ho Chi Minh City
Design Manager of Sunny World Development & Management Corporation (SDMC)

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

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Research Assistant

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

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Research Associate and Program Coordinator

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Research Assistant

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Research Associate

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Research Associate, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences at UdeG

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Program Coordinator

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Research Associate, Professor, Department of Representation at UdeG

MIT City Science
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Research Associate, Computer Lab, Cinvestav Gdl

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

MIT City Science
Research Scientist

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PMO Manager

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Project Assistant

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Research & Development Engineer

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Intern

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

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Director of Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MMlab)

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Research Associate, Architecture and Human Body

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Intern

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Senior Lecturer, Sustainable Urban Development program (SUD), Vietnamese-German University (VGU)

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)

MIT City Science
Research Assistant

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

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Director of Sunny World Development & Management Corporation (SDMC)

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Chairman of Sunny World Development & Management Corporation (SDMC)

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Research Assistant

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Research & Development Engineer

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Student Assistant and trained Filmmaker and Photographer

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

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Dean of Research & Development at Taipei Tech

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Research Assistant in Urban Planning

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Deputy Director of the Architecture Research Center (ARC)

CSL@Shanghai
Intern

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Research Associate / Research Program and Transfer

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Research Assistant

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Flybits - Scale AI program

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

MIT City Science
Administration

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Director of Architecture Research Center (ARC)

CSL@Shanghai
Lab Manager

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

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Flybits - Scale AI program

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Research Assistant

CSL@Hamburg
Research Associate and Urban Innovation Specialist UNITAC

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Research Assistant, Geographic Information Systems

RIBS + SEIXAS

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Project Development and Lab Management

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Living Lab Coordinator

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Research Assistant

MIT City Science
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Andorra Biosphere Reserve Project Manager

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