Welcome to the Resilient Urban Networks Lab webpage!

Cities are the main engines of productivity, innovation, and culture, owing to the dense social and economic connections formed by people and organizations. However, cities are also at the forefront of unprecedented challenges, including climate change, increasing natural hazards and disasters, growing inequality, and segregation, whilst experiencing rapid spread of new technologies, ranging from electric and autonomous vehicles to AI systems that influence our behavior and decisions.  How will such compounded shocks affect cities and ultimately, our lives?

The mission of the Resilient Urban Networks (RUN) Lab is to develop computational tools and data-driven models that help us better understand the complex interplay between collective human behavior and the built environment exposed to such drastic changes. We are an interdisciplinary group of scientists, engineers, urban planners, and computer scientists, working together with practitioners and policy makers to improve the resilience and sustainability of communities and cities to future urban shocks. 

The RUN Lab is directed by Dr. Takahiro Yabe, an Assistant Professor at New York University. Our research lies in the intersections of civil engineering, urban informatics, computational social science, complex systems and network science, and geospatial artificial intelligence (AI). To learn more about our research, please visit the Research page and Google Scholar!