Resilient Urban Networks Lab 
We develop computational models to study the resilience of urban complex systems

Takahiro Yabe, Ph.D.

Taka is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology Management and Innovation (TMI) and the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University. He is a computational social scientist, urban data scientist, and civil engineer interested in the resilience of urban complex systems and socioeconomic networks. 

Vaidehi Raipat

Vaidehi is an architect and urban designer with seven years of experience in designing and planning livable spaces. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Science at NYU. Her interests lie in advancing policy-responsive research in the spatial and temporal analysis of human behavior and the complex patterns arising from human and physical interactions.

Callie Clark 

Callie is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and an Urban Systems PhD Candidate at NYU. Callie earned both a master’s in Systems Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley. Her research interests include human mobility, neighborhood dynamics, segregation, and equitable access to resources.

DongHak Lee

DongHak is a Ph.D. student in TMI and CUSP at NYU. His research interests include social dynamics, community development, and the development of digitized urban models using quantitative methodologies. His recent work focuses on modeling individual-level interactions to address urban issues. He holds a master’s degree in Regional Science from Cornell University, and B.S. and B.I.S. from Pusan National University, South Korea.

Mavin De Silva

Mavin is a Visiting PhD student at CUSP and a JSPS DC1 awardee from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. His research focuses on leveraging big data for urban studies, with a particular emphasis on the spatial and temporal analysis of electric vehicle charging systems and the exploration of urban spatial network dynamics. In his leisure time, Mavin enjoys playing cricket and chess.

Akanksha Patil

Akanksha is a master's student at the Center for Urban Science and Progress. Currently, working on a research project to identify the trajectories of e-bike and non-delivery drivers by analyzing mobile phone data to estimate the hazard exposure of e-bike delivery worker.

Malik Salman

Malik is a master’s student at CUSP. He is interested in making urban environments more resilient in the face of change and and more prepared for times of crisis. Previously, he earned his degree in physics from the University of Michigan. In his spare time, Malik enjoys traveling and making music.

Anni Zheng

Anni is a graduate student at NYU studying Data Science. She is currently working on a project that studies human mobility data and predicts mobility under both normal and disaster scenarios. Outside of the lab, she is an aerial dancer, dedicated to competitions!

Marcel Moran, Ph.D.

Marcel studies urban transportation via satellite imagery, mining open datasets, and in-person field collection. He received his PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2023. He holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University and a masters degree from the University of Chicago. 

Mehak Sachdeva, Ph.D.

Mehak is an urban science faculty fellow at CUSP. She has a Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science from ASU and her research develops spatially explicit methods and models to analyze how spatial context and social interactions affect human behavior, choices, and decision-making. Apart from research, she is enjoys running, hiking, and painting.

Zhaoxi Zhang, Ph.D.

Zhaoxi is an urban innovator working at the intersection of built environment, human health and technology. With backgrounds in both architecture and environmental science, She is passionate about the socio-technical transformation of urban development and human-computer interaction. Her research focuses on mobile sensing, urban AI agent and VR in urban design.