SUL/Harvard CGA collaborative paper accepted to Scientific Data
SUL researcher paper "Twitter Sentiment Geographical Index Dataset" was just accepted by the journal Scientific Data. Authored by Yuchen Chai (MIT DUSP/EECS master’s graduate, SUL researcher), Devika Kakkar (Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, our collaborator), Juan Palacios and Siqi Zheng. It is a major research outcome of our “Global Sentiment” research theme in the past four years. The authors collaborated with Harvard CGA.
Siqi Zheng accepted into the first cohort of MIT’s Fast Forward Faculty Fund Grant Program
SUL Director named member of the inaugural cohort of MIT's Fast Forward Faculty Fund Grant Program (F^4)
Summit Journal of AFIRE accepts latest paper from Zhengzhen Tan
Lecturer Zhengzhen Tan’s recent Web3 decarbonization paper was just accepted by the Summit Journal of AFIRE (Association for International Real Estate Investors). Tan is also named as one of the “Rising Leaders” of AFIRE.
MIT Climate Nucleus' inaugural Fast Forward Faculty Grant
Siqi Zheng is a MIT Fast Forward Faculty Fund recipient. She has formed a cohort and over the course of two years, this cohort will come together regularly (e.g., monthly) for climate leadership and faculty development and for networking. Ideally this will enable them to serve as climate ambassadors across the Institute, helping to identify new opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Siqi Zheng Awarded at ARES conference in Hong Kong
Siqi Zheng was honored July 16 with the prestigious "Asia Real Estate Academic & Professional Women Achievement Award", at the Asia Real Estate Society (ARES) conference in Hong Kong.
Net-Zero Homes and Housing Affordability
Joint research project with the construction management department at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), sponsored by Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Massachusetts (HBRAMA)
Financial Modeling of Building Decarbonization
Paper, “Quantifying the financial value of building decarbonization technology under uncertainty: Integrating energy modeling and investment analysis” on the financial modeling of building decarbonization just got accepted by the journal Energy and Buildings, a top journal in the building technology and building energy field.
SUL Researcher Wins Outstanding Thesis Award
SUL research assistant, Maria Jimena Muzio’s thesis won DUSP’s Outstanding MCP Thesis Award for her thesis, “Understanding Housing Supply under Stringent Energy-efficiency Regulations”.
SUL paper accepted to Urban Studies
The paper “The Impact of Human Capital and Housing Supply on Urban Growth” has been accepted by the journal Urban Studies. This is a top journal in the urban studies area.
Two grants awarded to SUL researchers
Fabio Duarte and Siqi Zheng are awarded new grants for research
Zhengzhen Tan is published in Journal of Sustainable Real Estate
“Connecting Digitalization and Sustainability: Proptech in the Real Estate Operations and Management” was just accepted for publication in Journal of Sustainable Real Estate.
Yichun Fan awarded prestigious MIT Martin Fellowship
The selection of Martin Fellows is highly competitive. In Yichun’s Award Letter, the Committee had high praise, “Congratulations on this honor, which reflects your strong academic and research accomplishments, and most importantly, your dedication to advancing sustainability for humanity and the natural world.”
UBC Urban China Conference with Harvard University
To what extent has planning guided China’s urbanization? Have plans driven urban development or have the cities we observe today developed in opposition to planning? These questions were discussed at the Harvard University / MIT UBC Urban China Conference co-organized by MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in March.
Post-doc Seunghoon Lee receives tenure-track position at University of Missouri
Congratulations Seunghoon! Your contributions to the lab are immeasurable…
Juan Palacios’ paper is published in Management Science
Management Science is a top journal in economics and management. It is huge achievement to be published in this journal. Juan and his coauthors have been working on this paper for at least five years…
MIT News features SUL Journal Paper on Extreme Heat
Extreme Heat Affects Habits of Daily Life - The Nature Scientific Reports paper, “Intraday Adaptation to Extreme Temperatures in Outdoor Activity” (by Yichun Fan, Jianghao Wang, Nick Obradovich, and Siqi Zheng) was featured on MIT News…
SUL Researcher Alejandro Echeveria wins the MIT Energy Hackathon
This year, the hackathon focused on the theme of “Decarbonizing the Built Environment”. Alejandro and his team (including Allie Shepard TPP ’23, Zoe Le Hong BT ’24, and Dominic Co March ’24) placed first overall with their tool that uses optimization algorithms and building energy modeling to help building owners retrofit their building. Judges of the competition included MIT faculty as well as industry executives from the energy space…
MIT Portugal Seed Grant Report
Our end-of-year report for the MIT Portugal Seed Grant is available!
SUL will host the 1st New Cities Conference on Oct. 1 and 2, together with the Charter Cities Institute (DC)
SUL will host the 1st New Cities Conference on Oct. 1 and 2, together with the Charter Cities Institute (DC)
Call for papers - Deadline – August 1, 2022
The consumer city crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, I have been focused on understanding the impacts of this virus on people’s behavior, mainly in consumer cities. Several studies have looked for social patterns changes and what the “new normal” would look like over the past two years. We decided to use the same methodological approach that we have used for several of my research projects: a very well-defined theoretical framework that supports our hypotheses through the thorough analysis of large datasets. Today, I want to share with you one of my latest papers: “Demand for Social Interactions: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was recently published in the Journal of Regional Science.