UGOD Seminar | Urban Informatics for Sustainable and Livable Cities
The talk will present recent research efforts on urban and geospatial modelling at the NUS Urban Analytics Lab, which largely focuses on understanding the usability of emerging datasets and crowdsourcing urban information. The Lab spearheads a holistic and intertwined research agenda that covers the entire geospatial process in the urban sphere: from advancing means to acquire data and assess its quality to developing new use cases and unlocking value with AI & analytics. For example, the group has developed the first global open registry of rooftops for urban sustainability and is currently working on developing a multi-scale digital twin in the NUS campus aspiring to break silos among disparate domains and research groups. Among other benefits, these new capabilities have the potential to generate and analyse high-resolution data of the urban form and contribute to developing novel instruments to assess and support urban sustainability.
Dr Filip Biljecki is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore and the founder of the NUS Urban Analytics Lab. He holds a MSc and PhD degree from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Filip's research and teaching are converging Geomatic engineering, geospatial technologies, and urban data science to support digital twins and data-driven urban planning. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles. At NUS he has been awarded for teaching and research multiple times, and has supervised dozens of students leading them to publications in leading journals and placements at top universities and organisations.