PRESENTATIONS

Invited Seminars/Symposia

• "Novel Case Studies" Session in Spatial Data Science Conference. CARTO, Brooklyn, NY. December, 2017.

• "Using Data to Improve Mobility and Infrastructure" Session in Summit on Data-Smart Government. Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA. November 2017.

• "Data-Driven Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Geography Colloquium. Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. October 2017.

• "Data-Driven Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities." Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. May 2017.

• "Mining Human Activity Data to Improve Mobility and Urban Livability." Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Cell Phone Data and Travel Behavior Research Symposium, Washington D.C., February 2014.

• "Untangling Complex Urban Issues through Emerging Big Data." Seminar on Urbanizing China: A Reflective Dialogue, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2013. (with Y. Zhu.)

• "Individual Daily Activity Patterns and Household Lifestyles in Singapore." Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, January 2012.

• "Spatial Temporal Patterns of Human Activities in the City." SMART Future Mobility Research Seminar, Singapore, August 2011.

• "Temporal Patterns of Human Activities in the City." Supply Chain and Operations Management Seminar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2011.

• "Identifying & Clustering Urban Activity Destinations." Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2010.

• "Sustainable Community Development: The MIT-Shantou Studio." One-day seminar for 20 Beijing visiting officials, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2010.

• "Sustainable Community Development: The MIT-Shantou Studio." Two-day seminars for 400 local village officials studying in the School of Continuing Education, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China, June 2010.

Conference Presentations ( * with Peer-Reviewed Abstracts, # Poster)

• Jiang, S., and Ferreira, J. "Household Activity Profiles, Lifestyles, and Residential Choice: A Case Study of Singapore." 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Boston, MA, USA, April 2017.

• *#Jiang, S., and Ferreira, J. "Incorporating Latent Lifestyle Classes to Explain and Simulate Household Residential Decisions: A Case Study of Singapore." 14th International Conference on CUPUM. Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2015.

• *Ferreira, J., M. Diao, S. Jiang, and Y. Zhu. “Extracting Activity Patterns from Cellphones, Points of Interest, and Travel Survey Data.” Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., USA, January 2014

• *Jiang, S., and J. Ferreira. “Identifying Dynamic Place Themes from Human Activities and POIs.” The Joint Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) / Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Congress. Dublin, Ireland, July 2013.

• *Jiang, S., M., González, and J. Ferreira. “Using Temporal Activity Profiles to Enrich Lifestyle Considerations in Urban Modeling.” Symposium on Applied Urban Modelling 2013: Productive and Sustainable City Regions. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, June 2013.

• Jiang, S., J. Ferreira, and M. González. “Inferring Human Activities by Mining Urban Destinations in Trajectory.” 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles, California, USA, April 2013.

• *Jiang, S., J. Ferreira, and M. González. "A Tale of Two Cities: In Search of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Human Activities." 53rd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, November, 2012.

• Jiang, S., J. Ferreira, and M. González. "Linking Human Activity Patterns and Life-Styles with Land Use in the City." 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. New York City, NY, USA, February 2012.

• *#Jiang, S., L. Viña-Arias, C. Zegras, J. Ferreira and M. González. "Adopting Mobile Phone Data to Justify Urban Models: A Case Study for Lisbon." 2011 MIT Transportation Showcase, Cambridge, MA, USA, November, 2011.

• *Jiang, S., J. Ferreira, C. Schneider, and M. González. "Individual Mobility Networks from Clusters of Human Activity." NetMob 2011: 2nd Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets & Networks. Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2011.

• *Jiang, S., J. Ferreira, and M. González. "Understanding the Link between Urban Activity Destinations and Human Travel Patterns." 12th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Lake Louise, Canada, July 2011 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).

• *Ferreira, J., Y. Zhu, M. Diao, W. Li, and S. Jiang. "Geoportal Platform for Collaborative Land Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling." 12th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Lake Louise, Canada, July 2011 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).

• *Jiang, S., F. Rodriques, A. Alves, F. Pereira, and J. Ferreira. "Towards an Activity-Based Approach for Estimating Travel Destinations." 12th World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).

• *Zegras, C., S. Jiang, L. Martínez, and J. Viegas. "Capturing the Value to Finance Transit Systems? Lessons from a Comparative Study of Chicago and Lisbon." The 4th International Conference on Financing Surface Transportation in the U.S.--Forging a Sustainable Future - NOW! New Orleans, LA, USA, May 2010.

• *Jiang, S., and C. Zegras. "Value to Capture to Sustain Mass Transit? A Case Study of Chicago." 50th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Crystal City, VA, USA, October 2009.

• *Jiang, S. "Finding Ways out of Congestion for the Chicago Loop: A Micro-simulation Approach." 2008 Transport Chicago Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, June 2008 (Proceedings in CD-ROM).

• Jiang, S. "Tax Increment Financing—An Option for Funding Public Transit: Theory and Implementation." The 4th Annual Transportation Student Research Symposium, organized by the Massachusetts ITE Chapter and New England Section ITE. Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, February 2008.