Urban Dependencies
Revealing the hidden dependency networks between places that structure urban economies and social resilience.
Projects
Our work
SUNLab works across multiple research programs that connect behavioral data, networks, and urban systems.
Each project combines theory, empirical data, and collaboration with partners to address real-world challenges in inequality, health, and labor in cities.
Experienced inequality
Measuring how segregation emerges from daily mobility and social encounters in cities.
Mobile Food Environments
Understanding how daily mobility shapes the food environments people experience and how those environments influence dietary behavior and health.
Methodologies to Better Understand Human Behavior in Urban Areas
Behavioral Data Foundations
Advancing the foundations of human mobility science through bias correction, standardized datasets, and privacy-preserving synthetic data.
Epidemic Dynamics in Cities
Using mobility data and agent-based models to understand how epidemics spread through cities and how targeted interventions can reduce transmission.
Labor Market Resilience
Understanding how the structure of occupations and skills determines cities’ ability to withstand economic shocks.