Lightning Talks

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2021 S&CC PI Meeting Lightning Talks

Lightning Talk Sessions:

Transportation
# Principal Investigator Award Title Video Award #
1 Lu Su Towards Quality Aware Crowdsourced Road Sensing for Smart Cities   1737590
2 Lillian Ratliff Data-Informed Modeling and Correct-by-Design Control Protocols for Personal Mobility in Intelligent Urban Transportation Systems   1736582
3 Zhi-Li Zhang Leveraging Shared Autonomous Vehicles for Greater Community Health, Equality, Livability, and Prosperity (HELP)   1831140
4 Jerome Lynch Data-Informed Scenario Planning for Mobility Decision Making in Resource Constrained Communities   1831347
5 Vinod Namboodiri CityGuide: Seamless and Inclusive Location-Based Services for Communities   1951864
6 Clinton Andrews Making Micromobility Smarter and Safer (M2S2)   1951890
7 John-Ross Rizzo Transportation Gaps and Disability-Related Unemployment: Smarter Cities and Wearables Combating Commuting Challenges for The Visually Impaired   1952180
8 Khan Iftekharuddin Scalable Modeling and Adaptive Real-time Trust Based Communication   1951745
9 Vanessa Frias-Martinez Inclusive Public Transit Toolkit to Assess Quality of Service Across Socioeconomic Status in Baltimore City   1951924
10 Abhishek Dubey Mobility for all - Harnessing Emerging Transit Solutions for Underserved Communities   1952011
11 Desheng Zhang Socially Informed Services Conflict Governance through Specification, Detection, Resolution and Prevention   1952096
12 Sanjay Ranka Video Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management   1922782
13 Michael Hyland Addressing Unprecedented Community-Centered Transportation Infrastructure Needs and Policies for the Mobility Revolution   1952241
14 Ragib Hasan StreetBit: A Bluetooth beacon based System for Alerting Distracted Pedestrians in Urban Environments   1952090
15 Shubham Jain CrossGuard: Enhancing Pedestrian Experience at Intersections   1951789
         
Community Planning, Education and the Workforce
# Principal Investigator Award Title   Award #
1 Shashi Shekhar Connecting the Smart-City Paradigm with a Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Systems Framework to Advance Equity in Communities   1737633
2 Daphney-Stavrou Zois Community on Multimodality: Participatory Action, Service, and Support (COMPASS)   1737443
3 Kimberly Zarecor Overcoming the Rural Data Deficit to Improve Quality of Life and Community Services in Smart & Connected Small Communities   1952007
4 Nichole Pinkard I4all (Interests for All): A Smart Socio-Technical Infrastructure to Identify, Cultivate, and Sustain Youth STEAM Interests in a Diverse Midsized American City   1831685
5 Betsy DiSalvo DataWorks: Building Smart Community Capacity   1951818
6 Haiyi Zhu Empowering and Enhancing Workers Through Building A Community-Centered Gig Economy   1952085
7 Scott Byrd Community Workforce Development through Augmented Reality STEM Learning Experiences   1831427
8 Max Zhang Toward a statewide public Internet of Things (IoT) network   1952063
9 Daniel Kilper A Novel Architecture for Secure Energy Efficient Community-Edge-Clouds with Application in Harlem: SEEC Harlem   1737453
10 Elizabeth Belding PuebloConnect: Expanding Internet Access and Content Relevance in Tribal Communities   1831698
11 Corey Baker Low-cost Smart Cities: Designing Affordable Smart Cities for All Communities   1952181
12 Tanina Rostain Just Connect Us: A Community Oriented Civil Justice Data Commons   1952067
13 Abbie Raikes Smart & Connected Childcare Communities   1952231
14 Brent Never Early Community Intervention for Neighborhood Revitalization Using Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies   1951971
15 Anas Mahmoud Utilizing Sharing Economy to Foster Social Capital and Economic Growth in Baton Rouge   1951411
16 Sheena Erete Cultivating a Smart Equity-Driven Policymaking Infrastructure to Improve Youth Learning Opportunities   1952144
17 Marjorie Zielke Community Integration Platform for Health Science Education of Social Emotional Intelligence through Collaborative Mixed Reality   1952163
18 Shangping Ren Building an Integrative Community Platform to Alleviate the Workforce Aging Crisis   1952225
         
Health and Wellbeing
# Principal Investigator Award Title   Award #
1 Nikil Dutt UNITE: Smart, Connected, and Coordinated Maternal Care for Underserved Communities   1831918
2 Fan Ye Smart Aging: Connecting Communities Using Low-Cost and Secure Sensing Technologies   1951880
3 Kerry Kelly Smart Air: Informing Driver Behavior through Dynamic Sensing and Smart Messaging   1952008
4 Timothy Bickmore Smart and Connected Churches for Promoting Health in Disadvantaged Populations   1831755
5 Natalia Villanueva Rosales Smart Social Connector: An Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Approach to Foster Social Connectedness in Underserved Senior Populations   1952243
6 Shelly Miller Empowering Environmental Justice Communities with Smart and Connected Technology: Air and Noise Pollution, Social Relations and Wellbeing in Times of Disruption   1952223
7 Prathap Ramamurthy Developing technological solutions to improve indoor air quality and thermal comfort in urban communities   1951875
8 Junsong Yuan Towards cybernetic buildings: integrated intelligent sensing to create responsive environments   1951952
9 Shuai Li Toward Disease-Resistant School Communities by Reinventing the Interfaces among Built Environments, Occupants, and Microbiomes   1952140
10 Nicole Ruggiano Planning Live, Sustainable Community Asset Mapping for a Dementia e-Friendly Alabama   1951974
11 Alexandrina Agloro Smart Technologies and Community Engagement to Address Data Gaps in Birth Outcomes Reporting   1951788
12 Andrea Hartzler Building capacity for data-driven physical activity interventions in communities with depression and obesity hotspots   1951378
13 Tracy Hammond Fostering Aging-in-Place and Autonomy in Elderly Persons through Intelligent Tracking   1952236
14 Monica Garfield Improving Service Delivery for the Homeless with Analytics and Process Modeling - Community Engagement and Capacity Building   1951896
15 Morgan Vigil-Hayes SUNRISE: Using Mobile Games in Rural Tribal Communities to Promote Social and Emotional Resilience in Youth   1951911
16 Joshua Garoon Understanding the most effective ways to engage community members in using technology and data as tools for influencing change in Wisconsin   1952022
         
Water, Energy, and Food
# Principal Investigator Award Title   Award #
1 Branko Kerkez Overcoming Social and Technical Barriers for the Broad Adoption of Smart Stormwater Systems   1737432
2 Cayelan Carey Resilient Water Systems: Integrating Environmental Sensor Networks and Real-Time Forecasting to Adaptively Manage Drinking Water Quality and Build Social Trust   1737424
3 Dong Wang Smart Water Crowdsensing: Examining How Innovative Data Analytics and Citizen Science Can Ensure Safe Drinking Water in Rural Versus Suburban Communities   1831669
4 Nalini Venkatasubramanian Creating an Extensible Data Exchange and Analytics Sandbox for Smart Water infrastructures   1952247
5 Asheesh Singh Smart Integrated Farm Network for Rural Agricultural Communities (SIRAC)   1952045
6 Hilary Boudet Smart & Connected Kids for Sustainable Energy Communities   1737565
7 Panagiota Karava Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart & Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities   1737591
8 Peng Zhang Empowering Smart and Connecticut Communities through Programmable Community Microgrids   2018492
9 Tony Reames Reducing Barriers to Residential Energy Security through an Integrated Case-management, Data-driven, Community-based approach   1952038
10 Mladen Kezunovic Advanced Learning for Energy Risk Tracking (ALERT)   1951813
11 Hao Zhu ECET: Empowering Community-centric Electrified Transportation   1952193
12 Robert Orttung Improving Low Income Households' Access to Energy in Washington, D.C.   1951847
13 Brian Bledsoe Smart Septic Strategies: Data Integration to Manage Hidden Infrastructure Threats to Our Homes and Communities   1952183
14 Jejung Lee Developing Food Oases in the Urban Food Deserts with Smart Urban Grower Network   1952013
15 Karen Pellegrin Big Island Drink Smart   1952263
16 Pradeep Kurup Community Based Approach to Address Heavy Metal Contamination in Drinking Water using Cloud-Connected Smart Electrochemical Sensors   1952147
17 Sherif Abdelwahed Sustainable Food Access through Sensing, Data Analytics, and Community Engagement   1952169
18 Ron Metoyer Food Information Networks (FINs): Building data-driven supports for increasing access and healthy food choices in low-income neighborhoods   2021-67022-33447
         
International Projects and RAPID Awards
# Principal Investigator Award Title   Award #
1 Shuza Binzaid Sustainable Energy Bike Lanes with Applications in the City of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia   2025641
2 Tho Nguyen Distributed Data-Sharing for Fast Response and Decision Support   2026050
3 Kurtis Heimerl Partnering with Grab for Cross-ASEAN   2025022
4 Tam Nguyen Crowd-AI Sensing Based Traffic Analysis for Ho Chi Minh City Planning Simulation   2025234
5 Wangda Zuo & Walid Saad Modernizing Cities via Smart Garden Alleys with Application in Makassar City   2025459
6 Anupam Joshi Bridging the Digital Gap and Identifying Cross-Cultural Pathways for Adoption of IoT Technologies to Support Super-Aging Societies in the U.S. and Japan   1952032
7 Suren Jayasuriya Understanding Heat Resiliency via Physiological, Mental, and Behavioral Health Factors for Indoor and Outdoor Urban Environments   1951928
8 Shu-Ching Chen Multimodal Data Analytics and Integration for Emergency Response and Disaster Management   1952089
9 Miguel Perez Green Mobility for Aging Society   1951850
10 Li Xiong Privacy-enhanced data-driven health monitoring for smart and connected senior communities   1952192
11 Cynthia Chen Socially-integrated Technological Solutions for Real-time Response and Neighborhood Survival After Extreme Events   1951418
12 Abhishek Dubey & Aron Laszka Addressing Transit Accessibility and Public Health Challenges due to COVID-19   2029950
13 Stephen Smith Algorithms and Heuristics for Remote Food Delivery under Social Distancing Constraints   2032262
14 Kelly Clifton Consumer Responses to Household Provisioning During COVID-19 Crisis and Recovery   2030205
15 Foad Hamidi & Andrew Coy Responding to COVID-19 using High-speed Mesh Wireless Community Internet   2030451
16 Quanyan Zhu Effective Resource Planning and Disbursement during the COVID-19 Pandemic   2027884
17 Philip Paré & Raphael Stern Using Data to Understand the Effects of Transportation on the Spread of COVID-19 as a Propagator and a Control Mechanism   2028738
         
Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management
# Principal Investigator Award Title   Award #
1 Mariya Zheleva Integrating Heterogeneous Wide-Area Networks and Advanced Data Science to Bridge the Digital Divide in Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response   1831547
2 Robert Lempert Landslide Risk Management in Remote Communities: Integrating Geoscience, Data Science and Social Science in Local Context   1831770
3 Mikhail Chester Community-Based Automated Information for Urban Flooding   1831475
4 Yue Ge Leveraging Smart Technologies and Managing Community Resilience through Networked Communities and Cross-Sector Partnerships   1952792
5 Katherine Lieberknecht Integrating Information Flows and Supporting Communities as Decision-Makers in Response to Acute and Chronic Stressors   1952196
6 George Mohler Real-Time Algorithms and Software Systems for Heterogeneous Data Driven Policing of Social Harm   1737585
7 Hamed Tabkhi Building Safe and Secure Communities through Real-Time Edge Video Analytics   1831795
8 Marc Berman Understanding the Impact of Social and Physical Environment Factors on Crime Using Urban Sensing and Machine-Learning   1952050
9 José Fortes Coordinated Safety Management Across Smart Communities   1951816
10 Daniel Balasubramanian Improving Community and Neighborhood Safety through Open Data Collection   1952029
11 Edwin Yaz Safety and Security of College Campuses and their Adjacent Communities   1952102
12 Jessica Kropczynski Help by Any Means: Sociotechnical Protocols for Multimedia Requests for Assistance to Next-Generation 911 Services   1951917
13 Farshid Vahedifard Reducing the Vulnerability of Disadvantaged Communities to the Impacts of Cascading Hazards under a Changing Climate   1951636
14 Ravi Srinivasan Flood Hazard Management & Practitioner Information Network for Florida Coastal Communities   1951997
15 Meredith McClure Co-designing AI-Driven Fire Preparedness Assessment Tools to Meet Community Needs in the Wildland-Urban Interface.   1952719
16 Hyung Jin Kim Pilot Study and Workshop For Enhancing Rural-to-Urban Disaster Resilience by Integrating Social, Spatial and Digital Networks   1952206
17 Jamie Padgett Toward Smart Resilience: Smart Systems for Situational Awareness of Flood Impacts and Transportation Access (SSSAFT) in Communities   1951821