Areas of expertise:
Urban development, urban innovation, urban data science, smart cities, e-governance, technologies in planning, open data & big data in planning, visualization for decision-making process, smart & sustainable architecture and pre-disaster planning.
Papers & Conferences:
‘Cyberenvironments help decision-making processes at the local level for pre-disaster planning of natural disasters’, 5th Joint AESOP-ACSP Congress 2013, Dublin, Ireland (2013).
‘E-planning for sensing communities: bringing together physical and virtual spaces’ at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 53 Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH (2012).
‘Cities in urban cyberspace: an analysis of smart cities’ The Symposium on Emerging Topics in Control and Modeling: Networked Systems, at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012).
‘Future Cities in Urban Cyberspace’, Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future, organized by the World Bank, Barcelona, Spain (2012).
‘Tall Residential Buildings for Smart Cities: An Analysis of the Impacts, Opportunities and Challenges of Tall Residential Buildings in Dubai and Chicago’. The Fulbright Academy’s Seventh Annual Conference “Sustainable Cities – Sustainable”, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2012).
‘Cyberenvironments and Decision-making in a Ubiquitous Digital Society’, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 51st Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN (2010).