Papers + Code

Beat the Morning Rush: Survival analysis-informed DNNs with collaborative filtering to predict precise departure times for home-to-work trips
Ekin Uğurel, Gaoang Wang
IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2025. [pdf]

Metropolitan Planning Organizations’ Uses of and Needs for Big Data
Ekin Uğurel, Xinhua Wu, Ryan Wang, Brian H. Lee, Cynthia Chen
Transport Findings. 2024. [pdf]

Learning to generate synthetic human mobility data: A physics-regularized Gaussian process approach based on multiple kernel learning
Ekin Uğurel, Shuai Huang, Cynthia Chen
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2024. [pdf] [code]

Correcting Missingness in Passively-Generated Mobile Data with Multi-Task Gaussian Processes
Ekin Uğurel, Xiangyang Guan, Yanchao Wang, Shuai Huang, Ryan Wang, Cynthia Chen
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2024. [pdf] [code]

COVID & telecommuting-induced changes in individual activity and travel patterns: Evidence from the Puget Sound Region
Grace Jia, Kaitlyn Ng, Ekin Uğurel, Brian Lee, Ram Pendyala, Cynthia Chen
Transport Policy. 2025. [pdf]

A Framework for Measuring and Benchmarking Fairness of Generative Crowd-Flow Models
Jiaqi He, Apoorva Sheera, Jack McFarland, Feiyang Wang, Manurag Khullar, Sakshi Chavan, Bernease Herman, Ekin Uğurel, Afra Mashhadi
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2025. [pdf] [code]

Exploring biases in travel behavior patterns in big passively-generated mobile data from 11 U.S. cities
Yanchao Wang, Xiangyang Guan, Ekin Uğurel, Cynthia Chen, Shuai Huang, Qi “Ryan” Wang
Journal of Transport Geography. 2025. [pdf]

Uncovering Physics-regularized Data Generation Processes for Individual Human Mobility: A Multi-task Gaussian Process Approach based on Multiple Kernel Learning
Ekin Uğurel, Shuai Huang, Cynthia Chen
25th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT). 2024. Ann Arbor, MI. In proceedings. [pdf]

Incident detection from novel data sources: Leveraging satellite imagery alongside GPS traces
Ekin Uğurel, Steffen Coenen, Minda Zhou Chen, Cynthia Chen.
Preprint. 2023. [pdf][code]

Time-varying Transition Matrices with Multi-task Gaussian Processes
Ekin Uğurel
Preprint. 2023. [pdf]