News
Mar 2023
Jan 2023
Our paper “Trackintel: An open-source Python library for human mobility analysis” was published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
Dec 2022
Our paper “Conserved quantities in human mobility” was published in Transportation Research Part C.
Our paper “Graph based mobility profiling” was accepted at Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS) and is now available online.
Nov 2022
We have presented our paper “How do you go where?: improving next location prediction by learning travel mode information using transformers” at ACM SIGSPATIAL 22 in Seattle.
Sep 2022
We have won the Sensirion challenge at HackZurich for presenting The Energymanager: A tool for digital energy consulting!
Jun 2022
We presented two papers[1][2] at the AGILE 2022 conference and won the best paper award!
The first paper is about Optimizing Electric Vehicle Charging Schedules Based on Probabilistic Forecast of Individual Mobilitypapercode and the second paper that won the best paper award is titled Unlocking social network analysis methods for studying human mobility papercode Congratulations to Nina!
I gave a talk on smart charging using roof-top solar power at a joint webinar of the the Schweizer Mobilitätsverband, the Bundesverbandes Betriebliche Mobilität and the Fuhrparkverbandes Austria.
The presentation was about our paper Using rooftop photovoltaic generation to cover individual electric vehicle demand—A detailed case study. The slides for the presentation are available here
May 2022
I presented a poster at the Kick-off Symposium for the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility on “Empirical use and Impact analysis of MaaS”.
I presented a poster at the Kick-off Symposium for the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility on “Empirical use and Impact analysis of MaaS”. At the event Professor Martin Raubal also gave a presentation on the same topic.
Sep 2021
I presented our GiScience 2020 paper on Estimation of Moran’s I in the Context of Uncertain Mobile Sensor Measurements at GIScience 2021. [Slides]
Jul 2021
I presented our paper on using Using Information and Communication Technologies to Facilitate Mobility Behaviour Change and Enable Mobility as a Service at the 12th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE). [Slides]
Jun 2021
May 2021
Our paper introducing A Clustering-Based Framework for Individual Travel Behaviour Change Detection is accepted for GiScience 2021
Apr 2021
Our new book chapter on Geosmartness for Personalized and Sustainable Future Urban Mobility. is published online. It is part of the open Access book on Urban Informatics [Chapter][Book]
Sep 2020
Our paper on Estimation of Moran’s I in the Context of Uncertain Mobile Sensor Measurements is accepted at GIScience 2020.
Jul 2020
I gave a presentation on Graph Based Machine Learning Methods for Human Mobility Analysis at the IARAI seminar.
A recording of the talk is available on youtube.
Jun 2020
Our AGILE paper on Exploring Factors that Influence Individuals’ Choice Between Internal Combustion Engine Cars and Electric Vehicles is now available online.
I am now officially a PhD fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI).
I am now officially a PhD fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI). I will spend time in Vienna regularly and collaborate closer with IARAI on machine learning and AI research.
May 2020
I took part in a panel discussion at the ICLR 2020 Workshop Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning on Next Steps for Forecasting across Climate-relevant Domains.
The presentations and discussions are available on youtube and my slides are available here.
Our paper on using Graph-ResNets for short-term traffic forecasts in almost unknown cities is now published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.
Nov 2019
We won the second Place at the NeurIPS 2019 Traffic4Cast competition.
I very happy to announce, that my team colleagues and I won the second place at the IARAI Traffic4Cast NeurIPS competition. You can check out our code and a short documentation of our submission. I am going to present the results at NeurIPS 2019.
Oct 2019
I presented my research plan at the ETH ASB Meet&Share your research day.
The slides of my presentation can be accessed here.
I presented my work on Exploiting the Spatio-Temporal Structure within Human Mobility Behavior using Graph Neural Networks at the The Workshop on Applied Machine Learning for Social & Environmental Problems (ML4SEP2019.
My slides are available here
Sep 2019
We presented two posters of our current research at the SCCER annual conference. First about the intermediate results of the SBB Green Class project poster and the second about the potential of E-trucks in Switerland poster.
We presented two posters of our current research at the SCCER annual conference. First about the intermediate results of the SBB Green Class project [poster] and the second about the potential of E-trucks in Switerland [poster].
Jun 2019
Pengxiang Zhao presented our Clustering-Based Framework for Understanding Individuals’ Travel Mode Choice Behavior at Agile. [Paper]
The SBB Green Class E-car and E-bike projects are officially finished. Check out the Final report (in German).
Dec 2018
We have presented our work on Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Purpose Imputation at the NIPS Spatiotemporal Workshop at the (NIPS 2018). [Paper][Pitch][Poster]
This work was also presented at the 1st Swiss Workshop on Machine Learning for Environmental and Geosciences (MLEG)
Oct 2018
Our Poster on The Potential of Residential Rooftop Photovoltaic Energy to Charge Electric Cars for Daily Use won the best poster award!
I very happy to announce, that my team colleagues and I won the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure best Poster award for our poster on The Potential of Residential Rooftop Photovoltaic Energy to Charge Electric Cars for Daily Use. These are the slides presented for our 5 Minute pitch.
Sep 2018
I presented a poster about the SBB Green Class project at the SCCER annual conference.
We presented the poster “Using a GIS-based Framework to Analyze the Impact of a Mobility as a Service Offer” at the SCCER annual conference.
Jun 2018
I presented our paper on Identifying and interpreting clusters of persons with similar mobility behaviour change processes at Agile. [Paper][slides]
I presented our paper on Identifying and interpreting clusters of persons with similar mobility behaviour change processes at Agile.’ [Paper][slides]