CEEM Seminar Series | Takahiro Yabe | New York University | Resilience of urban socioeconomic networks to behavioral changes
Resilience of urban socioeconomic networks to behavioral changes
Urban economic resilience hinges on understanding how shocks propagate across local businesses and amenities during pandemics, disasters, and technological shifts. While disruptions in 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 our data-driven spatial network models to predict the cascades of shocks across cities, and further discuss applications to optimize civil infrastructure systems to achieve urban resilience. I will also discuss my ongoing research on cross-city transfer learning approaches to prepare cities for unprecedented shocks.
Takahiro Yabe
Takahiro Yabe is an assistant professor at New York University, where he directs the Resilient Urban Networks Lab. His research develops computational methods to understand collective social dynamics during disruptions such as disasters and pandemics. He was previously a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Media Lab with Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and Master's and Bachelor's Degrees from the University of Tokyo. He is a recipient of the Emerging Researcher Award from the Complex Systems Society.