Session Info

Session III

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