B.S. Electrical Engineering (WPI), M.S. Computer Science (WPI), Ph.D. Urban Information Systems and Planning (MIT)
Current Activities
This year
marks the 20th Anniversary
of the Venice Project Center
where over 450 WPI students have conducted over 150 projects for Venice since
1988, therefore most of my academic and professional activities until Summer
2009 will be dedicated to the Venice
2.0 project.
Click HERE for more information about the
Anniversary.
Recent News and Events
˜
“Is Venice sinking?” Having been asked this question hundreds of
times, I finally had a chance to broadcast the answer (NO) to a wider audience,
thanks to Real
Simple magazine in April 2008.
˜
The Ministry of University of Italy
has approved the request by the University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV)
to “recall” me for a four-year position as part of the “brain-drain”
program.
˜
Featured
in: “Venice’s
Uncertainty” (Smithsonian Online,
3/07); "Venezia
Misteriosa" (National Geographic
Magazine (2/07, Vol. 29, Issue 2, Italy); "High
Tide" (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
radio, 12/06);
“A
sinking city yields some secrets” (Science, 9/23/05); “City under
Siege” (National Geographic Video,
2002-2007);
˜
Also interviewed for BBC radio,
Wired ,
Smithsonian
and New Scientist,
MIT
Technology Review. More information
available by clicking News
below.
Teaching
My teaching this year will be focused
primarily on the Venice 2.0 initiatives.
There are seven Interactive
Qualifying Projects and one Major Qualifying Project
that taking place in Venice in the Fall of 2008.
Full-time faculty member of the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
at WPI. Director of WPI Venice
and Boston
Project Centers. Primary teaching duties at WPI include project preparation courses (most recently for London,
Bangkok and
Worcester)
and project advising, both on campus (through the e-campus and hometown
initiative) and off campus. Also, I regularly teach courses at MIT: Spatial
Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems (spring
2007 and 2008) and Research
Seminar in Urban Information Systems (fall 2005).
Research
Most of my research revolves around the
concepts of City
Knowledge. My current efforts are
oriented towards the implementation of Urban Data Farming mechanisms in cities,
using web 2.0 technologies to augment the emergent farming capabilities of
municipalities. Director of City Lab, an
interdisciplinary research laboratory founded in 2003. Active research areas include the development
of Urban
Technologies (such as our Pothole
and Turbulence
Mappers), Urban
Information Systems, primarily dedicated to the development of Web 2.0 tools,
such as LOUIS
(Local On-line Urban Information System) and Urban Initiatives,
such as the E-Campus
and Hometown
Initiative. I also continue to work
on Emergent
Systems, primarily with our Emergent
Transcriptions Project (currently works on Firefox only).
Awards
Outstanding PhD
Dissertation (MIT, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, June 2, 2005); University
Ambassador Award (WPI,
1/27/05); WPI
John Boynton Young Alumni award (WPI, 1999); ten President’s IQP Awards
(WPI).
Bio
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