Career updates, research reflections, international visits, and methodology discussions on spatial data science, agent-based modelling, urban analytics, and Smart Data.
I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the UKRI-funded Geographic Data Service (GeoDS) at the University of Liverpool as a permanent Research Data Scientist, working alongside Professor Alex Singleton to turn Smart Data into actionable evidence for spatial equity and policy.
Commercial geodemographics are often proprietary black boxes, while traditional census data misses actual consumer behaviour. Our paper in the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management introduces an open, small-area classification covering England and Wales.
Reflections from my research visit to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS): collaborating with the Data Analytics and Visualisation team, conditioning LLMs on demographic profiles to generate synthetic OD travel diaries, and benchmarking against Barcelona's EMEF survey data.
How do IoT sensor networks, digital twins, and AI decision systems tackle urban congestion and transport emissions? Our paper in MDPI Sustainability combines PRISMA guidelines with SBERT NLP to quantitatively connect transport challenges with technological solutions.
Highlights from my time in South Korea as a Visiting Researcher on the Korea-UK Digital Transport project: teaching ABM to PNU students, spending a week with Sundosoft, co-authoring research with Prof. Jinuk Hwang and Dr. Jinhyeok Jang, and presenting at KRIHS and Hanyang University.