BIDS Faculty Affiliate and Council Member Marta Gonzalez presented this talk at a workshop entitled Prescriptive Analytics for the Physical World (PAPW 2020), which was held in conjunction with KDD 2020.
Abstract: Computational Urban Sciences refer to the use of information and communication technology and data in the context of cities and urban environments. I present methods to identify patterns of occupancy in building energy consumption and the utilization of urban space. Our mobile phone-based occupancy estimates are integrated with a state-of-the-art urban building energy model to understand their impact on energy use predictions. Second, I present a new urban planning paradigm where within minutes, inhabitants can access their basic living needs by bike or by foot. I show insights of the interplay between the distributions of facilities and population that maximize accessibility over the existing road networks.