posted on March 4, 2014
MSI PI Tian He, an associate professor in the computer science and engineering department, is among the researchers named a 2014 Resident Fellow of the Institute on the Environment (IonE). IonE Fellows conduct interdisciplinary research that seeks to understand and address environmental problems. Professor He will be working on a project to conduct environmental crowd-sensing data in a Chinese metropolitan area using sensors on taxicabs. This project is related to his group’s research using MSI resources, which uses traffic data from multi-modal online feeds to study and optimize urban transit systems. The huge amount of data now available allows transportation experts to build systems that can deal with changes in the urban environment.