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Urban Analytics for Transforming Cities and Regions: Tools, Methods and Applications.

UAL is leading the project Semantic Urban Elements at the Singapore-ETH Centre and in collaboration with Swiss partners.

The published research led by our master graduate Xinyu Chen has been recognised with a best journal paper award.

Our junior scientists in the spotlight.

Realising Computational Design of Complex Geometry in Architecture.

Scientific Data publishes our open dataset from the Urbanity project to support network analysis.

Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our work on unveiling multiscale planning paradigms of 144 cities with a novel deep learning approach.

Environment and Planning B publishes our position paper on explainable spatially explicit GeoAI.

ICUC11 was organised by the University of New South Wales.

This year’s theme: Geospatial Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Cities.

Cities on the Climate Frontlines: Evaluating Urban Climate Change and Policy Responses.

Our active participation at the flagship conference in 3D GIS and urban digital twins, hosted at the Technical University of Munich.

Each of them will delve into the fascinating world of emerging urban datasets.

Experiencing the future of cities through virtual reality.

Furthering our network in Southeast Asia by visiting premier institutions in Thailand.

npj Urban Sustainability publishes our work that describes the latest methodological and software development in network analysis.

Collaboration with Bangkok’s leading Urban Design and Development Center.

Representing the research of the Lab overseas to industry and academic partners.

He is heading the Senseable City Lab, a leading research group in this domain.

Continued collaboration with overseas research groups in urban analytics.

Presenting our latest research at the London Data Week.

QS publishes its 2024 rankings, which place NUS at #8 globally, a historic first for an Asian University.

Her research on uncovering the challenges of urban digital twins is gaining traction in industry & government.

Representing the research of the Lab overseas.

JAG publishes our comparative study of approaches and visual perspectives with street view images.

We are co-organising a collection on Sustainable geospatial analytics and geoinformatics with repeatable, reproducible, and expandable (RRE) framework and design.

Cities publishes our work on uncovering a new use case of a nascent form of user-generated geographic information.

Energy and Buildings publishes a collaborative paper that brings advancements to the discourse on resolution and accuracy in urban energy models.

Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our work on a new use case of street-level imagery and its temporal aspect.

Representing the research of the Lab at two premier research groups in Europe.

IJGIS publishes a collaborative paper that presents a novel method to predict short-term travel demand by bus.

Our research group has received its first industry sponsorship.

Cities publishes our work on using unconventional (off-road) street-level imagery for a new use case.

Building and Environment publishes our global assessment of OpenStreetMap attributes.

Recent guest lectures and collaborative exchanges with four visiting scholars.

Contribution to The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Contribution to the main conference of The American Association of Geographers (AAG) and visits to two universities.

Scientific Data publishes a collaborative paper that, with 200+ million individual buildings, presents one of the most comprehensive efforts on building information globally.

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing publishes our work ‘A Two Layer Spatially Dependent Graph Neural Networks to Identify Urban Functions with Time-series Street View Image’.

Strengthening our network in ASEAN with visits to Bandung and Yogyakarta.

Sustainable Cities and Society publishes our novel work on spatio-temporal-explicit GeoAI to predict human outdoor comfort.

Strengthening the geospatial community in Singapore.

Continued collaboration with Korean academia.

Our College of Design and Engineering awarded excellent research and teaching, including ours.

Our Lab alumnus moves to the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology as Assistant Professor.

Collaboration with Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Automation in Construction publishes our systematic review and a Delphi expert survey to understand hindrances to adopting DTs.

If you fly Singapore Airlines, check out a video feature about the work done here and other groups at NUS.

The PI of the Lab gave a keynote at the Seoul Big Data Forum and visited five organisations.

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing publishes our novel work on synthesising morphologically accurate geospatial data for urban form analysis, transfer, and quality control.