My first paper just dropped! We tracked where and when ride-hailing (ojek online) drivers in Bandung actually wait for orders and the findings have real implications for how we think about urban planning and ojek online policy in Indonesia.

Our new paper. Part of Blessy Xavier's PhD work. We use 80 million trip records collected from AFC gates in Delhi Metro to develop a novel crowding index that identifies how different destination stations contribute to link-level crowding. nature.com/articles/s41598-0… @ChikaraLab

NeurIPS 2025's top 50 paper contributors show China and the US neck-and-neck. In the US, corporate labs—Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft—now rival top schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, showing a major shift to industry-led AI research. China’s leaders remain academic: Tsinghua, CAS, Peking, SJTU, HKUST. Singapore (NUS, NTU), Korea (KAIST), UAE (MBZUAI), and Canada (Mila) hold strong. Europe trails, with only Oxford, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and TUM from the EU-27 making the list. --- Source: linkedin. com/posts/pierre-alexandre-balland-20b75b13_who-pushed-the-ai-frontier-at-neurips-2025-activity-7403119036496162817-vRPE