Biography
PhD student at the Dept of Land Economy and a member of Churchill College. She holds an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the Dept of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She is exploring the integration of complexity theory, urban data analytics and smart city, with a special focus on smart transport. Her research interests cover urban data analytics, machine learning, and smart transport governance.
Summary of Research Interests
Planning support system; data analytics; urban (re)growth and shrinkage; smart city; urban complexity
Supervisors and Advisor
Dr Elisabete Silva & Dr Jose Reis
Start Date
Michaelmas 2018
End Date
College
Churchill
Teaching and Research Experience
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Mphil Supervision, Spatial Analysis and Modelling (RM03), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (2019-2020)
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Mphil Supervision, Urban and environmental policy (PGR01), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (2019-2020)
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MPhil Demonstration, Mixed research methods (RM01), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (2018-2019)
Full papers published in peer review journals:
Chen, Y., Silva, E.A. and Reis, J., (2020) Measuring policy debate in a regrowing city by sentiment analysis using online media data: a case study of Leipzig 2030, Regional Science Policy & Practice
Book Chapter:
Silva, E.A., Liu, L., Kwon, H.R., Niu, H. and Chen, Y., 2020. Hard and soft data integration in geocomputation: mixed methods for data collection and processing in urban planning. In Handbook of Planning Support Science. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Silva, E.A., Liu, L., Kwon, H.R., Niu, H., Chen, Y., and J. Reis. 2021. What's new in urban data analytics? In Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management. SAGE Publishing.
