CEE Seminar: Resilience of Urban Socioeconomic Networks to Behavioral Changes

VIA Zoom Link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/99532427036?pwd=UUU5YTBvOGk4YzJ1VGNJQy95M2pvQT09  
Meeting ID: 995 3242 7036; Passcode: 210548 

Abstract: Urban economic resilience hinges on understanding how shocks propagate across local businesses and urban amenities during pandemics, disasters and technological shifts. While disruptions on supply chains have been extensively studied, it is imperative to recognize that human behavior changes may also amplify shocks to businesses and amenities that are connected via mobility and lifestyle patterns. In this talk, I will present novel network-based methods that leverage large-scale human mobility data to predict the network cascades of urban shocks, and further discuss applications to optimize civil infrastructure systems to achieve urban resilience.

Bio: Yabe is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) and the Media Lab with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland and Esteban Moro. His research focuses on computational social and network science approaches to model the resilience of cities to disasters, pandemics and disruptive mobility technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2021 and his M.S. and B.S. from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2015, respectively. He is an incoming assistant professor in the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, starting January 2024.