Marta Gonzalez Archives

Microgrids for the city

January 26, 2016 | 2016 News in Brief | ceemit

A study by Professor Marta Gonzalez was published last week in the journal Science Advances, and featured in an article in The Atlantic’s CityLab. The study modeled how a microgrid would look for the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She […]

From Data to Models that Improve Urban Policy

November 16, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On Sept. 21, Professor Marta Gonzalez’s essay titled, “From Data to Models that Improve Urban Policy” was published in The Cities Papers. Emphasizing the new data-rich reality of cities, this essay explores deeper insights into the […]

Marta Gonzalez and John Ochsendorf featured in MIT Spectrum

October 5, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Professors Marta Gonzalez and John Ochsendorf were highlighted in this month’s MIT Spectrum publication. In recognition of her recent study published in Scientific Reports, which used phone data to record people’s movement patterns and how interconnected people […]

Marta Gonzalez selected as STL Faculty Research Grant recipient

September 16, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Marta Gonzalez was awarded a STL (Samuel Tak Lee Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab) Faculty Research Grant for her project, “Mining Big Data to Link Affordable Housing Policy with Traffic Congestion Mitigation in Beijing, China”. Gonzalez, […]

Two CEE professors awarded with $50,000 research grants by Siebel Energy Institute

August 10, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On August 4, the Siebel Energy Institute marked its official launch with the announcement of 24 research grants nearing $1 million. Among the $50,000 grant recipients were CEE Professors Marta Gonzalez and Saurabh Amin. Gonzalez’ proposal […]

CEE provides seed funding to two new research projects

July 6, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

A CEE research seed funding and graduate fellowship opportunity, now in its second year, promotes collaborative thinking and action that result in widespread impact, improvement in the lives of people, and promotion of sustainability. The winning entries […]

Breaking down social networks in a city

June 10, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially. Until now, studies of human interactions through mobile communication and social media have always been conducted at the […]

CEE Announces Faculty Promotions

May 18, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

Kelsey Damrad Civil and Environmental Engineering The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) head Markus Buehler announced the promotions of two faculty members in the department: Marta Gonzálaz, promoted to associate professor without tenure, and […]

Building a More Resilient NYC through Big Engineering

April 21, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On Wednesday, May 6 at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center in New York, a team of CEE faculty will present to an audience of MIT alumni in a community reception entitled, “Building a More Resilient NYC […]

Marta Gonzalez quantifies urban movement in response to social stimuli

February 28, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

The streets of the city are consistently congested, but how much of urban movement is caused by social stimuli? In a recent study, Professor Marta Gonzalez and her team introduce a new method of inferring the […]

Marta Gonzalez Promoted to Associate Professor

February 13, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Assistant Professor Marta Gonzalez has been promoted to associate professor without tenure, effective July 1st, 2015. Gonzalez works in urban computing with a specialized interest in the intersections of people with the built environment and their […]

New Model Might Avert Panic over Disease Outbreaks

February 9, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Sometimes the response to the outbreak of a disease can make things worse — such as when people panic and flee, potentially spreading the disease to new areas. The ability to anticipate when such overreactions might […]

World Bank Blog Quotes Marta Gonzalez on New Method for Gathering Travel Planning Data

January 16, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Understanding peoples’ travel activity patterns, and ideally understanding the motivations and choices underlying them, are at the heart of what transport planners do, writes World Bank blogger Shomik Mehndiratta. He describes work by Professor Marta Gonzalez […]

New Traffic Modeling Method Accounts for Disruptions and Changes

November 17, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Reliable predictions of the best commuting routes could save time and energy under normal conditions, and could save lives during emergency evacuations following a natural disaster. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, researchers including Professor Marta […]

Marta Gonzalez Presents Papers on Urban Social Networks

October 14, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Marta Gonzalez recently spoke in Lucca, Italy in conjunction with ECCS ’14 (the European Conference on Complex Systems), a major international gathering devoted to complex systems and interdisciplinary science. She presented two papers on the […]