Hello, I'm
Maryam Hosseini
I am a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), focusing on pedestrian accessibility and walkability in urban public spaces.
I use computer vision techniques to offer scalable and reproducible solutions to create large-scale datasets describing pedestrian facilities, with the vision of enabling different cities around the world to conduct comprehensive analyses of their pedestrian infrastructure through understanding:
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Associate - Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) - MIT
- Research Associate - Visualization and Data Analytics (VIDA) Research Center - NYU
Education
- Ph.D. Urban Systems - Rutgers University
- M.A International Economics - University of Warsaw, Poland
- B.A Theoretical Economics - University of Tehran, Iran
Recent Updates
- 12/01/2022 - I joined Andres Sevtsuk's team at MIT DUSP City Form Lab!
- 08/17/2022 - Successfully defended my PhD!
- 07/28/2022 - Co-organizing the 1st Workshop on The Future of Urban Accessibility at ASSETS'22.
- 04/2022 - My first dissertation article, CitySurfaces, is published in Sustainable Cities and Society journal.
- 12/06/2021 - Co-organizing the 'Future of Global‑Scale Spatial Data Collection and Analyses on Urban (in)Accessibility for People with Disabilities' workshop at SDSS 2021