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Smart Cities -- Manuel Avalos

Name: 
Manuel Avalos
Institution: 
IBM Mexico
Address: 
IBM México, Col. Irrigación, Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Latitude: 
19.4428532
Longitude: 
-99.2150477
Brief Bio: 
Product Manager, Storage for the Cloud, IBM Mexico
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Smart Cities -- Burcu Akinci

Name: 
Burcu Akinci
Institution: 
Carnegie Mellon University
Phone: 
412-268-2959
Address: 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Latitude: 
40.4379259
Longitude: 
-79.9556424
Brief Bio: 
Dr. Burcu Akinci is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and co-director of Pennsylvania Smarter Infrastructure Incubator at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her BS in Civil Engineering (1991) from Middle East Technical University and her MBA (1993) from Bilkent University at Ankara, Turkey. After that, she earned her MS (1995) and her Ph.D. (2000) in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in Construction Engineering and Management from Stanford University. Her research interests include development of approaches to model and reason about information rich histories of facilities, to streamline construction and facility management processes. She specifically focuses on investigating utilization and integration of building information models with data capture and tracking technologies, such as 3D imaging, embedded sensors and radio-frequency identification systems to capture semantically-rich as-built histories of construction projects and facility operations. Dr. Akinci has one patent, two patent applications, over 60 referred journal publications, and 80 refereed conference publications. She co-edited a book on CAD/GIS Integration and another book on Embedded Commissioning. She has graduated more than 16 PhD students and 15 MS thesis students, and is currently advising/co-advising 4 PhD students.
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Smart Cities -- Kaan Ozbay

Name: 
Kaan Ozbay
Institution: 
New York University
Phone: 
646.997.0552
Address: 
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Latitude: 
40.6986772
Longitude: 
-73.9859414
Brief Bio: 
Kaan M.A. Özbay joined Department of Civil and Urban engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU in August 2013. Professor Ozbay was a tenured full Professor at the Rutgers University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in July, 1996. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department of Princeton University. Dr. Ozbay is the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Dr. Ozbay is the co-editor of a new book titled “Dynamic Traffic Control & Guidance” published by Springer Verlag’s "Complex Social, Economic and Engineered Networks" series in 2013. In addition to this book, Dr. Ozbay is the co-author of three other books titled “Feedback Based Ramp Metering for Intelligent Transportation Systems” published by Kluwer Academics in 2004, "Feedback Control Theory for Dynamic Traffic Assignment", Springer-Verlag and “Incident Management for Intelligent Transportation Systems” published by Artech House publishers both in 1999. Dr. Ozbay published approximately 300 refereed papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings. Professor Ozbay serves as the “Associate Editor” of Networks and Spatial Economic journal and Transportmetrica B: Transportation Dynamics journal. He is a member of the editorial board of the ITS journal.
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Smart Cities -- Lauren Baldwin

Name: 
Lauren Baldwin
Institution: 
City of El Paso
Address: 
El Paso, TX
Latitude: 
31.7618778
Longitude: 
-106.4850217
Brief Bio: 
Lauren Baldwin is the Sustainability Program Specialist for the City of El Paso and helps support all sustainability projects. Her main responsibilities include managing the social media, newsletter, outreach, and education portion of the City’s sustainability projects. She graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies with an Environmental Affairs focus and a Double Minor in Environmental Policy and Planning and Spanish. In 2011, Lauren conducted research about conservation agriculture practices in Ecuador as part of a USAID-funded research program. She is an enthusiastic environmentalist who was born in Alaska, then grew up in Arizona and Virginia before moving to El Paso. She is also currently pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration at UTEP.
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Smart Cities -- Mario Berges

Name: 
Mario Berges
Institution: 
Carnegie Mellon University
Phone: 
412-268-4572
Address: 
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Latitude: 
40.4428081
Longitude: 
-79.9430128
Brief Bio: 
Mario Berges is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in making our built environment more operationally efficient and robust through the use of information and communication technologies, so that it can better deal with future resource constraints and a changing environment. Berges is the faculty co-director of the IBM Smart Infrastructure Analytics Laboratory at CMU, as well as the director of the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Lab (INFERLab). Among recent awards, he received the Outstanding Early Career Researcher award from FIATECH in 2010, and the Dean’s Early Career Fellowship from CMU in 2015.
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Smart Cities -- Rocio Maciel

Name: 
Rocio Maciel
Institution: 
University of Guadalajara
Address: 
Periferico Norte #799, Módulo L-305. Los Belenes, Zapopan, Jalisco, México. 45100
Latitude: 
29.1123153
Longitude: 
-110.971555
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Smart Cities -- Raul Beltran

Name: 
Raul Beltran
Institution: 
University of Guadalajara
Phone: 
+52 (33)3770 3352
Address: 
Periferico Norte #799, Módulo L-305. Los Belenes, Zapopan, Jalisco, México. 45100
Latitude: 
29.1123153
Longitude: 
-110.971555
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Smart Cities -- Jeff X Ban

Name: 
Jeff X Ban
Institution: 
University of Washington
Phone: 
206-543-9655
Address: 
1410 NE Campus Parkway
Latitude: 
47.6565701
Longitude: 
-122.3126853
Brief Bio: 
Dr. Ban’s research goal is to help resolve transportation related congestion, energy and emission problems, by promoting new technologies and transportation options in a way that is beneficial to the society at large. For this, he uses mathematical modeling and computer simulation techniques to explore how various transportation systems operate in tandem, from freight trucks to passenger cars to transit vehicles, and how they may be managed and/or operate cooperatively for the common good. To develop more efficient, safer transportation systems, he utilizes insight from vehicle sensors, as well as other data gathering methods, to learn/predict vehicle and transportation system performances. Recently, he develops modeling tools to study dynamic transportation networks with emerging technologies and systems such as connected/automated vehicles and shared mobility. He also works on urban traffic system state estimation and prediction using mobile sensing data.
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Smart Cities -- Joe Chow

Name: 
Joe Chow
Institution: 
New York University
Phone: 
646.997.4030
Address: 
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Latitude: 
40.6986772
Longitude: 
-73.9859414
Brief Bio: 
Dr. Joseph Chow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Urban Engineering and Deputy Director at the C2SMART University Transportation Center at NYU, and heads BUILT@NYU: the Behavioral Urban Informatics, Logistics, and Transport Laboratory. His research expertise lies in transportation systems, with emphasis on multimodal networks, behavioral urban logistics, smart cities, and transport economics. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient; he serves as the elected Vice Chair of the Urban Transportation SIG at INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society, and is an appointed member of the Editorial Boards for Transportation Research Part B and the Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30) at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Prior to NYU, Dr. Chow was the Canada Research Chair in Transportation Systems Engineering at Ryerson University. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Lecturer at University of Southern California and a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Irvine, where he led the development of a statewide freight forecast model for Caltrans. He has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UC Irvine (‘10), and an M.Eng. (‘01) and B.S. (‘00) in Civil Engineering from Cornell University with a minor in Applied Math. Dr. Chow is a former Eisenhower and Eno Fellow and a licensed PE in NY.
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Smart Cities -- Tomas Horak

Name: 
Tomas Horak
Institution: 
Czech Technical University
Phone: 
+420-224359157
Address: 
Zikova 1903/4, 166 36 Praha 6, Czechia
Latitude: 
50.1030364
Longitude: 
14.3912841
Brief Bio: 
Deputy Vice-Dean for Foreign Relations - for International Projects / Faculty of Transportation Sciences / FTS Manager for Projects / Department of Transportation Systems / Faculty of Transportation Sciences / Department of Logistics and Management of Transport / FTS
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Smart Cities -- Miroslav Svitek

Name: 
Miroslav Svitek
Institution: 
Czech Technical University
Address: 
Zikova 1903/4, 166 36 Praha 6, Czechia
Latitude: 
50.1030364
Longitude: 
14.3912841
Brief Bio: 
Since 2005, he has been nominated as the extraordinary professor in applied informatics at Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic. Since 2008, he has been full professor in engineering informatics at Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague.
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Smart Cities -- Ondrej Pribyl

Name: 
Ondrej Pribyl
Institution: 
Czech Technical University
Phone: 
+420-224359897
Address: 
Zikova 1903/4, 166 36 Praha 6, Czechia
Latitude: 
50.1030364
Longitude: 
14.3912841
Brief Bio: 
Vice-Dean for Foreign Relations / Faculty of Transportation Sciences / FTS Deputy head of department / Division of Foreign Relations / Faculty of Transportation Sciences / Department of Applied Mathematics / FTS Member of Dean's Collegium / FTS Member of Dean's Board / FTS
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Smart Cities -- Victor Larios

Name: 
Victor Larios
Institution: 
Universidad de Guadalajara
Phone: 
+52 (33)3770 3430 +52 (33)3770 3300 Ext. 25140
Address: 
Periferico Norte #799, Módulo L-305. Los Belenes, Zapopan, Jalisco, México. 45100
Latitude: 
29.1123153
Longitude: 
-110.971555
Brief Bio: 
Victor M. Larios has received his PhD and a DEA (French version of a MS program) in Computer Science at the Technological University of Compiègne, France and a BA in Electronics Engineering at the ITESO University in Guadalajara, Mexico. Working at the University of Guadalajara, he holds a Full Professor-Researcher position at the Department of Information Systems in the CUCEA Campus. His research works are focused in distributed systems strategies to improve the support for large communities interacting on virtual reality environments ans Serious Games. Such strategies include computer mobile agents, optimization of algorithms for distributed and concurrency support and large scale simulations. As main projects, Victor M. Larios have worked in the development of Virtual Laboratories for educational activities, collaborative systems for interactive support and data visualization. Current works are focused in the development of Virtual Reality interfaces for collaborative Serious Games and large scale simulations. As other activities at the University of Guadalajara, he is the director od the Research Center in Systems & Information Management (CISGI). He is also, the Coordinator of the PhD in Information Technologies at the PostGraduate School and the Information Systems Department, University of Guadalajara. The PhD program is labeled as a quality program in Mexico by the PNPC CONACYT accreditation agency. Eventually, Dr. Victor M. Larios participates in a IT council at the CUCEA UdeG Campus (Related to a Business School with 15,000.00 Students) to give the guidelines to support and innovate the Campus IT services. Victor M. Larios is also an IEEE valued member for 17 years and an ACM member for 11 years.
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Smart Cities -- Leopoldo Gomez

Name: 
Leopoldo Gomez
Institution: 
Universidad de Guadalajara
Address: 
Periferico Norte #799, Módulo L-305. Los Belenes, Zapopan, Jalisco, México. 45100
Latitude: 
29.1123153
Longitude: 
-110.971555
Brief Bio: 
Leopoldo Gómez has obtained his Master degree (in 2006) in Information technologies at the University of Guadalajara with the development of a 3D environment as a research tool for a Growing Functional Module controller (GFM paradigm). He obtained an engineer degree (in 2000) on computer science by making and presented a project that could help on teachers attendance by getting their position and ID from a static physical device and retrieving the related data from a local DB such information was stored on a web interface in order to be viewed by users. Leopoldo has always had the concern of making practical projects for real life problems. By now he is a PhD student in Information Technologies interested in Metaheuristics optimization techniques that could help on finding the 'best' path searching way with the use of static and dynamic data to optimize the use of the infrastucture in a system.
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Description

A smart city is a place where people enjoy improvements in the Quality of Life through continuous innovation in public and private services that are enabled by open and transparent sharing of information between the residents, visitors, public and private sectors, supported by efficient, reliable, and secured communication infrastructures. Additionally, the ability to process, synthesize, and integrate information is essential, as is the respect for individual rights and privacy. The smart cities community was formed by a group of researchers in the College of Engineering in 2014.

Aspirations

To be a model for interdisciplinary, international collaboration that advances the knowledge of transforming cities into smart cities through joint research, education, and community engagement.

KEYWORDS

  1. Data privacy
  2. Data science
  3. Interdisciplinary collaborations
  4. Internet of things
  5. Quality of life
  6. Resiliency
  7. Sensor network
  8. smart cities
  9. Sustainability
  10. System of Systems

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Cheu, Kelvin
Advocate
Professor
Engineering - Civil Engineering
transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems, transportation security, cross border transportation, parking, smart cities
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Gates, Ann
Advocate
Professor
Engineering - Computer Science
Software Engineering, Verification and Validation, Requirements Engineering, Cyberinfrastructure, Workflows, Computing Education, Undergraduate Research
Featured: Awards

Associate Professor
Engineering - Computer Science
Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies Engineering, Question Answering, Data-to-Model Integration, Data Integration, Data Exchange, Cyberinfrastructure, Smart Cities, Water Sustainability
Featured: Awards

Professor of Practice
Engineering - Civil Engineering
GIS, Remote Sensing, Geophysics, gravity, magnetic, geodesy & surveying, seismology, Asset management, Transportation, and Environmental Engineering.
Featured: Awards

Associate Professor
Liberal Arts - Psychology
Cognition, Cognitive Aging, Attention, Timing, Aging, Learning, Memory, Community Engaged Scholarship, Service Learning,
Featured: Awards

MEMBERS FROM PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

Akinci, Burcu  (View)
Carnegie Mellon University
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Attel, Carol  (View)
El Paso Community College
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Avalos, Manuel  (View)
IBM Mexico
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Baldwin, Lauren  (View)
City of El Paso
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Ban, Jeff X  (View)
University of Washington
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Beltran, Raul  (View)
University of Guadalajara
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Berges, Mario  (View)
Carnegie Mellon University
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Chow, Joe  (View)
New York University
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Gomez, Leopoldo  (View)
Universidad de Guadalajara
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Guerra, Araceli  (View)
City of El Paso
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Horak, Tomas  (View)
Czech Technical University
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Larios, Victor  (View)
Universidad de Guadalajara
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Maciel, Rocio  (View)
University of Guadalajara
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Ozbay, Kaan  (View)
New York University
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Pribyl, Ondrej  (View)
Czech Technical University
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Svitek, Miroslav  (View)
Czech Technical University
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Yanez, Mary  (View)
El Paso Community College
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Related Efforts

NSF-SCC: Smart Social Connector (SCC), An Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Approach to Foster Social Connectnedness in Underserved Senior Population
UTEP Related Effort
Funding: National Science Foundation NSF 1952243 $1,499,132 for 3 years from 10/2020

In collaboration with the City of El Paso and El Paso Community College, the goal of SSC is to examine the intersection of technology, community engagement, and social science to develop and sustain senior connectedness through the following objectives: 1. Advance knowledge on the systemic and behavioral factors that increase connectedness and bridge the generational digital divide in seniors; 2. Increase social and technological connectedness for seniors through Smart City solutions.

IRES: US-Mexico Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration for Smart Cities
UTEP Related Effort
Funding: National Science Foundation, 3 years from 6.1.2017, $239.410.

The goal of the proposed IRES is to engage 3 cohorts of diverse, STEM graduate students that can contribute to Smart Cities research areas. The objectives are:
1) Create opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge in the proposed research areas and align it to Smart Cities initiatives, and
2) Foster the development of students’ intra- and inter-personal competencies to effectively participate in collaboration across disciplines, borders, and cultures.

Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation (C2SMART)
UTEP Related Effort
Funding: This Center is funded by USDOT from 2017 to 2022 (5 years) as a Tier 1 University Transportation Center. C2SMART's Consortium Members are: New York University (lead), Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, University of Washington, University of Texas at El Paso, The City College of New York.
Contact: Kelvin Cheu

The research priority of C2SMART is “Improving Mobility of People and Goods” with a focus on “Smart Cities.” C2SMART’s mission is to build a solution-oriented research center that uses cities among its consortium members as a decentralized but comprehensive living laboratory. The Center will study a number of challenging transportation problems and field test novel solutions in close collaboration with end-users, city agencies, policy makers, private companies, and entrepreneurs.

Crowd-Sourcing of Smart Phones Sensors Data
UTEP Related Effort
Funding: Interdisciplinary Research Seed (IRS) Fund, College of Engineering, UTEP. $20,000 for 10 months.
Contact: Omar Badreddin

We aim at collecting smart phones’ sensors data from drivers in the city and analyze it to explore drivers’ interactions with road topology. Such data can be analyzed in combinations with traffic regulations, crash and traffic violations databases. The ultimate goal of this proposal is to improve drivers’ safety and inform the responsible agency to take actions on traffic control and management.

Related Centers

Smart Parking Garage: Concept of Operations and User Benefits
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Related Effort: Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation (C2SMART)
Kelvin Cheu

In this paper, the concept of Smart Parking Garage (SPG) is formally introduced.The concept of operations, including functional requirements, equipment, relationships with the U.S. National ITS architecture, and a typical use case of an SPG are described. To assess the benefit of an SPG compared to a conventional garage, a five-level garage was selected, and the search times to park in 22 selected spaces were measured by a test vehicle. The results showed that SPG reduced the median search time by 35 seconds.

Development of LOS Analysis Procedures and Performance Measurement Systems for Parking
Document
Related Effort: Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation (C2SMART)

This is the final report of a C2SMART funded research. The objectives of this project were: (1) To develop a level of service analysis procedure for off-street parking facilities; (2) To develop a concept of operations for a smart garage performance measurement system; (3) To develop a concept of operations for a smart on-street parking performance measurement system; and (4) To develop equations for on-street parking search time as functions of occupancy ratio.

Smart Mobility for Seniors: Challenges and Solutions in El Paso, TX, and New York, NY
External Resource
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Related Effort: Connected Cities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation (C2SMART)
Kelvin Cheu

This paper focuses on investigating senior citizens’ mobility needs in El Paso, Texas and New York City, New York in order to define the requirements and recommendations for an ad-hoc solution on smart mobility for seniors, using state-of-the-art mobile technologies. A survey was conducted at various senior recreation centers across El Paso and New York City with a total of 458 and 61 responses, respectively.

Management of Real-Time Data for a Smart Flooding Alert System
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Related Effort: IRES: US-Mexico Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration for Smart Cities

In this work, an interdisciplinary, international team of researchers and students from the University of Guadalajara and the University of Texas at El Paso share their progress towards managing (i.e., collecting, processing, and sharing) real-time data during flooding events through the Smart Flooding Alert System (Smart FAS).

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