Papers + Code

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On predicting sociodemographics from mobility signals Ekin Uğurel, Cynthia Chen, Brian H. Y. Lee, Filipe Rodrigues Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2026. [pdf]

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

From biases to opportunities: leveraging Location-Based-Service (LBS) data for next-generation transportation planning Cynthia Chen, Ryan Wang, Prateek Bansal, Lyra Chen, Ekin Ugurel, Yuteng Zhang, Xinhua Wu Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2025. [pdf]

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, et al., 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]

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]

Uncovering Physics-regularized Data Generation Processes for Individual Human Mobility Ekin Uğurel, Shuai Huang, Cynthia Chen ISTTT 25. 2024. [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]