--Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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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!
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