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Jue Ma

Project Assistant Professor @CSIS, University of Tokyo.
Digital Twin | City Science | GIS & Urban Planning | Civil Engineering

I am currently a Project Assistant Professor at the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), University of Tokyo, primarily focusing on Human Centered Urban Informatics. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2023.

My research interests lie in understanding how digital technologies can support more inclusive and sustainable urban development. My current work focuses on urban digital twins, smart mobility, and the application of generative AI to urban planning and digital governance, with particular interest in how these tools can support decision-making and citizen participation.

I am also interested in demographic change, compact city policies under population decline and aging, as well as climate resilience and the sustainable development of future cities.

I am very open to research collaboration. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me!

news

Aug 25, 2026 Paper accepted at the NetMob Data Challenge 2026: Counterfactual Dispatch Regularization Reduces Passenger Waiting in Urban Bus Services.
Aug 25, 2026 Paper accepted at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026: MyCityMobility: A Scenario-Based Public Transport Evaluation Platform with GTFS and Synthetic People Flow. See you in Riverside, CA, USA, November 3-6!
May 7, 2026 New paper: Socioeconomic Disparities in Heat Exposure in India: A Mobility-Based Analysis.
Dec 8, 2025 Presented Linking Urban Morphology and Human Activity Patterns: An Empirical Study Based on Mobility Survey Data from the Paris Region at IEEE BigData 2025 and received the Best Presentation Award.
Sep 5, 2025 Presented Predicting Building Height from Footprint and Urban Planning Information for Digital Twin Generation at the 20th 3D GeoInfo & 9th Smart Data Smart Cities.
Jul 30, 2025 Paper accepted at the NetMob Data Challenge 2025: Improving Activity Classification Using Highly Detailed Demographic Profiles.
Jun 23, 2025 Participated in CUPUM 2025 in London, UK, June 23-27.
Apr 1, 2025 I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor (特任助教) at The University of Tokyo! :smile:
Dec 2, 2024 New Paper: Urban Growth Divides: The inevitable structure of shrinking cities in urbanization evolution
Nov 7, 2024 Participated ACSP2024 during Nov. 7-9, Seattle.
Oct 7, 2024 Participated Netmob2024 during Oct. 7-9, Washington, D.C.
Oct 4, 2024 New Paper: Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan
Jun 25, 2024 New Paper: A cost-and-effect simulation model for compact city approaches: A case study in Japan
Apr 6, 2024 Participated as a speaker at CMU-UT Symposium on Urban Engineering and Informatics in Chiang Mai.
Dec 5, 2023 I got my Ph.D degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo! :sparkles:
Oct 7, 2023 Award: Netmob 2023 Best Challenge Contribution Runner-up
Oct 3, 2023 I will visit City Science Group, MIT Media Lab for one month! :sparkles:
Oct 1, 2023 I start my work as a project researcher at CSIS, University of Tokyo! :smile:
Jul 30, 2023 New paper: WindSR: Improving Spatial Resolution of Satellite Wind Speed Through Super-Resolution
Sep 6, 2022 New paper: Development of current estimated household data and agent-based simulation of the future population distribution of households in Japan