Program

8:40 am – 9:10 am

• A Graph Deep Learning Model for Station Ridership Prediction in Expanding Metro Networks
  • Fangyi Ding, Yuebing Liang, Yamin Wang, Yan Tang, Yang Zhou, and Zhan Zhao

9:10 am – 9:40 am

• Smart Route: A GIS-Based Solution for Mass Transit Design and Optimization
  • Siddhant Jakhotiya, Apratim Sen, Reza Safarzadeh, and Xin Wang

9:40 am – 10:10 am

• Generative-AI based Map Representation and Localization
  • Alireza Akhavi Zadegan and Amnir Hadachi

10:30 am – 10:50 am

• Encryption Techniques for Privacy-Preserving CNN Models Performance and Practicality in Urban AI Applications
  • Sanaullah Sanaullah, Hasina Attaullah, and Thorsten Jungeblut

10:50 am – 11:10 am

• SurfaceAI: Automated creation of cohesive road surface quality datasets based on open street-level
  • Alexandra Kapp, Edith Hoffmann, Esther Weigmann, and Helena Mihaljevic_

11:10 am – 11:30 am

• MapYog-Intelligent Spatiotemporal Data Explorer
  • Ankit Sharma, Madhur Gupta, Mohd Junaid, Anuj Nandwana, and Lokendra P. S. Chauhan

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

• An advance review of urban AI and ethical considerations
  • Derrick Mirindi, David Sinkhonde, and Frederic Mirindi

1:00 – 2:25

• Keynote Topic
  • Professor Hiba Baroud
    James and Alice B. Clark Foundation Faculty Fellow
    Director (interim), Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy, and Climate
    Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Associate Professor of Computer Science (Secondary)
    Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Secondary)
    Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2:25 – 2:55

• Automating Bibliometric Analysis with Sentence Transformers and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): A Pilot Study in Semantic and Contextual Search for Customized Literature Characterization for High-Impact Urban Research
  • Haowen Xu, Xueping Li, Jose Tupayachi, Jianming Lian, and Olufemi Omitaomu

2:55 – 3:00

• Wrap up discussion – Future Direction and Collaboration Opportunities