Resilience of complex social systems to global challenges through behavioral data
Esteban Moro
Researcher and data scientist, MIT Connection Science
The economic and social progress of our urban areas, institutions, and jobs depend on the diversity and resilience of the social fabric in cities. However, several major forces can erode these connections, such as income or racial segregation, and differences in education and job access. In this talk, I will present recent research on understanding the fragility of the network of social connections and interactions in cities by analyzing behavioral mobility data and its relationship with networked inequalities, such as experienced segregation, access to healthy food, and adaptation to the recent pandemic.
About the speaker
About the speaker
Esteban Moro is a researcher and data scientist at MIT Connection Science, and a professor at Universidad Carlos III (UC3M) in Spain. Throughout his career, he has published extensively, with over 100 articles to his name, and has led many projects funded by government agencies and private companies. His work lies at the intersection of big data, network science, and computational social science, with a focus on human dynamics, collective intelligence, social networks, and urban mobility in areas such as viral marketing, natural disaster management, and economic segregation in cities. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the “Shared University Award” from IBM in 2007 for his research on modeling viral marketing in social networks, and the “Excellence in Research” Awards in 2013 and 2015 from UC3M. Esteban's work has appeared in major journals such as Nature Communications, Human Behavior, PNAS, and Science Advances, and is regularly covered by media outlets such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and El País (Spain).
Esteban Moro is a researcher and data scientist at MIT Connection Science, and a professor at Universidad Carlos III (UC3M) in Spain. Throughout his career, he has published extensively, with over 100 articles to his name, and has led many projects funded by government agencies and private companies. His work lies at the intersection of big data, network science, and computational social science, with a focus on human dynamics, collective intelligence, social networks, and urban mobility in areas such as viral marketing, natural disaster management, and economic segregation in cities. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the “Shared University Award” from IBM in 2007 for his research on modeling viral marketing in social networks, and the “Excellence in Research” Awards in 2013 and 2015 from UC3M. Esteban's work has appeared in major journals such as Nature Communications, Human Behavior, PNAS, and Science Advances, and is regularly covered by media outlets such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and El País (Spain).
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