Hanyong Xu
Nice to meet you!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Science at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT, advised by Professor Jinhua Zhao. I am a member of the JTL Urban Mobility Lab (JTL) and affiliated with the Data + Feminism Lab. I seek to leverage the power of data science, algorithms, and visualization to lead to better urban planning, public policy making, and business growth. My current research focuses on:
- responsible data science and AI in urban science;
- platform economy and urban form.
Prior to joining DUSP, I accumulated three years of professional experience as both a data analyst and a GIS specialist at Meituan and CityDNA Technology, orchestrating data science and web-based solutions for decision-makers in urban planning and e-commerce. I hold a Master of Urban Spatial Analytics from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and an Honors Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Architectural Design and Economics from the University of Toronto.
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| Apr 28, 2025 | Hanyong and her collaborators’ research “Mitigating Spatial Disparity in Urban Prediction Using Residual-Aware Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks: A Chicago Case Study.” was presented at The International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining from the Web WebST’25, held in conjunction with the 2025 ACM Web Conference at Sydney, Australia, and received the Best Paper Award. |
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| Oct 23, 2024 | Hanyong presented at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting at Seattle, US for her research “Navigating Algorithmic Unfairness in Ride-Hailing: Examining Disparate Impacts of Transportation Network Company Algorithms in New York City.” |
| Sep 4, 2024 | Hanyong presented at the Conference in Emerging Technologies in Transportation Systems (TRC-30) at Heraklion, Greece for their research “Large Language Model for Travel Behavior Prediction”. |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Hanyong has been selected as the Design & Technology Fellow at FASPE. She will embark on a journey to Germany and Poland in May and June to study ethical considerations in the context of the Holocaust. See report here. |