Professor of Geography @GeographyUB, @UBuffalo. Formally @CSS_GMU, & @CASAUCL. Research: #Cities, #ABM, #GIS, #ComputationalSocialScience. Book: abmgis.org
Joined September 2008
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18 Jan 2019
Want to know more about #ABM & #GIS? Check out: Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer. Also all the models and data are available @ abmgis.org/ @nickmalleson @edthink @ajheppenstall
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How well does #ChatGPT do with respect to extracting building attributes (e.g., age, use & height) from street view images? Find out in our new publication: Evaluating the Feasibility of ChatGPT for Mapping Building Attributes ebooks.iospress.nl/volumeart… @qingqingchen77 @LindaMSee
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Interested in how NLP and geolocated social media can be used to explore fear in cities? Check out my new paper with Ying Zhou (@chou_zing) entitled: Exploring Fear in Urban Environments: Place and Space Analysis of Social Media Data" Available at sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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May 18
Compared to vision and sound, smell remains understudied in cities. Building on our previous work on making invisible urban smells visible, @AndyCrooks, @atepoorthuis and I explore the connection between vision and smell, and how visual cues shape the way we perceive smells.
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16 Oct 2025
The first print copies of "Cities in the Metaverse: Spatial Computing, Digital Twins, Avatars, Economics, and Digital Habitation on the New Frontier" have arrived. via @CASAUCL @CRCPress #metaverse
routledge.com/Cities-in-the-…
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8 Oct 2025
Call for abstracts #AAG2026. We (@geoai_yin @geokang0614 @JJiangna @AndyCrooks @ajheppenstall @ComplexityWise & others) are organizing a session on Geosimulations (ABM, MAS, microsimulation, AI Agents). Submit by Oct 30. More details: bit.ly/46YTMIn
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20 Jun 2025
Officially Dr. Chen! 🥳🥳
Huge thanks to my amazing committee: @AndyCrooks @JaredAldstadt @Yingjie_Hu @atepoorthuis and to everyone who’s been part of this journey. Can’t believe this chapter is really over but the story is still going! 🌈
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17 Apr 2025
Are you interested in how you can perceive smells in cities? If so check out our new paper led by the amazing @qingqingchen77 & @atepoorthuis entitled "Mapping the Invisible: Decoding Perceived Urban Smells Through Geosocial Media in New York City" : tandfonline.com/eprint/DVTV9…
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3 Mar 2025
✍️Call for Papers✍️: Integrating LLMs and Geospatial Foundation Models to Enhance Spatial Reasoning in ABMs @EuroSocSim's Social Simulation Conference. Full details: gisagents.org/2025/03/call-f… @ajheppenstall
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3 Mar 2025
If you are working in CSS, this is a great conference you might like to submit a paper to.
2 Mar 2025
📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Conference is accepting submissions! Share your cutting-edge research at the intersection of computation & social science. It will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov 6 – 9, 2025.
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15 Feb 2025
🎉Excited to share our latest research in @PLOSDigiHealth. We introduced a ‘big-thick’ data approach to compare the convergences and divergences between newspapers and interviews regarding the COVID pandemic and vaccination discussion. @AndyCrooks @SurteesJennifer
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Andrew Crooks retweeted
15 Nov 2024
We (@AndyCrooks) just completed three stages of agent-based modeling—Designing, Building, and Running—to replicate Sakoda's Checkerboard Model of Social Interaction, ONLY🧩by chatting with ChatGPT! 🚀A great way for ABM beginners to dive in!#AgentBasedModeling #AI #SakodaModel
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13 Nov 2024
Our Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas has been published as part of Springer Proceedings in Complexity:
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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8 Nov 2024
📝 New paper in Scientific Data: A Large-Scale Geographically Explicit Synthetic Population with Social Networks for the US. We (@AndyCrooks @geoai_yin @BoyuWang_ ) have standardized and automated the process
Code and Data: osf.io/fpnc2/
Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-0…
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31 Oct 2024
#AAG2025 deadline extended! Still not to late to submit your abstracts to our session. More details gisagents.org/2024/10/call-f…
23 Oct 2024
Call for abstracts! Are you doing work related to #Geosimulation and planning on attending the #AAG2025 ? If so check out our session and consider submitting an abstract. More info at: gisagents.org/2024/10/call-f… Organized by @ajheppenstall @ComplexityWise @JJiangna and others.
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22 Oct 2024
I'm recruiting a PhD student starting in Fall 2025 (application deadline is Dec. 2024). The student will focus on GeoAI for Disaster Resilience, and will have opportunities to be involved in multiple NSF-funded projects. More details are available at: geoai.geog.buffalo.edu/oppor…
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Call for abstracts! Are you doing work related to #Geosimulation and planning on attending the #AAG2025 ? If so check out our session and consider submitting an abstract. More info at: gisagents.org/2024/10/call-f… Organized by @ajheppenstall @ComplexityWise @JJiangna and others.
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28 Aug 2024
We had the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the journal Environment and Planning B in UCL on the 6th June 2024. A video of the talks from Longley, Batty, Steadman, Singleton and See.
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16 Jul 2024
Still not to late to submit abstracts for GC077: Future Map! at #AGU2024. More details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pre… #GeoAI #climate #ABM
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Still not to late to submit abstracts for GC077: Future Map! at #AGU2024. More details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pre… #GeoAI #climate #ABM
2 Jul 2024
Call for abstracts: “GC077: Future Map: The Convergence of Generative #GeoAI, Population Synthesis, and Agent-Based Modeling to Develop Geographic Futures for Climate Assessments” #AGU2024. More details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pre…
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Call for abstracts: “GC077: Future Map: The Convergence of Generative #GeoAI, Population Synthesis, and Agent-Based Modeling to Develop Geographic Futures for Climate Assessments” #AGU2024. More details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pre…
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