讲座主题：

（1）Smart City Digital Twins: Toward More Sustainable, Resilient, and Livable Cities

（2）Human Mobility and Urban Resilience

讲座嘉宾：

1. John E. Taylor, PhD, NAC
   Frederick Law Olmsted Professor
   Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Research Innovation, Civil and Environmental Engineering
   Georgia Tech
2. Ryan Qi Wang, PhD
   Associate Professor
   Vice Chair for Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
   Northeastern University

讲座时间：2023年10月30日9:00-10:30

讲座地点：同济大厦A楼309室

讲座摘要：

1. Reports by the National Academies in the United States have encouraged investment in developing a more comprehensive understanding of network dynamics at the intersection between human and engineered networks. Concurrently, cities are addressing rapid urbanization challenges by implementing socio-technological changes in their infrastructure systems as they evolve toward becoming smarter cities. The success of such an evolution, however, relies on solutions that can combine data from individual infrastructure components to urban scale networks. A great deal of research has focused on developing an understanding of data analytics at the scale of the city and of individual infrastructure components. However, there is a gap in our understanding, data collection approaches, and analytical methods to integrate and visualize such disparate data and complex network dynamics. This presentation will describe efforts to formalize and implement a Smart City Digital Twin platform, with an emphasis on efforts to understand, model, and improve energy consumption and disaster mobility across spatial scales in cities, to foster more sustainable, resilient, and livable cities.
2. Large-scale extreme events, such as pandemics, wildfires, and major storms, can significantly change routine human movement patterns. Such changes affect both the consequences of the events and the ability of urban centers to mount effective responses. In this talk, I will discuss how uniformity and heterogeneity of human movements emerge under the impact of major natural disasters; and how social inequality can impact the movement patterns of residents in America’s cities.

讲座嘉宾简介：

Dr. John E. Taylor is the inaugural Frederick Law Olmsted Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he currently serves as the Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Research Innovation in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Taylor received his PhD from Stanford University in 2006. At Georgia Tech, he is founder and Director of the Network Dynamics Lab, which focuses on; (1) achieving sustained energy conservation by coupling energy use with occupant networks and examining inter-building network phenomena in cities, and (2) understanding and improving response times by affected human networks during extreme events in urban areas. Dr. Taylor’s research has received over $8M in funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and other public and private funding sources. His research was awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award in 2011. In 2020, Dr. Taylor was elected into the National Academy of Construction for his research and pedagogical efforts to improve urban sustainability and resilience and guide the evolution of smart cities. Dr. Taylor has authored over 250 technical publications, won five journal best paper awards, and founded two technology startups.

Dr. Ryan Qi Wang is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University. Before joining Northeastern, Wang was a postdoc fellow at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on two interrelated areas: human movement perturbation under the influence of natural and manmade disasters, and mobility equality in big cities. His research has been published in Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), etc. His research group has received funding support from NSF, NIST, IARPA, MacArthur Foundation, USDOT, and other foundations and local government agencies.