UROP Project

Generative AI for Smart Cities Applications

Generative AI, Human Mobility, Data Analytics
Research Mentor: Guang Wang,
Department, College, Affiliation: Computer Science, Arts and Sciences
Contact Email: guang.wang@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor):
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Faculty Collaborators:
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Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 3
Relevant Majors: Computer Science,
Data Science,
Statistics,
Math,
Geography,
Urban Planning
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required:
Remote or In-person: Partially Remote
Approximate Weekly Hours: 10, Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:
Not participating in the roundtable

Project Description

This project aims to harness the power of large-scale, diverse, and real-time urban data to address critical challenges in city planning, mobility, and public services. As cities become increasingly digitized, massive volumes of data, ranging from traffic flows, environmental sensors, social media, utility usage, and public transit records, offer unprecedented opportunities to understand and improve urban systems. However, effectively analyzing and visualizing these heterogeneous data sources to support timely and effective decision-making remains a significant challenge. This project aims to develop generative AI models for synthetic data generation, privacy data protection, and predictive modeling, etc.

Research Tasks: Data Collection: Gather and curate diverse urban datasets, including transportation logs, air quality data, social media feeds, energy usage records, census information, and IoT sensor data.

Tool Design: Design interactive visualization tools.

Generative AI model development.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Data collection and analysis skills are required.
Experience in Python is required.
Familiarity with LLMs is recommended.

Mentoring Philosophy

My mentoring goal is to encourage every student to learn something. Based on my previous mentoring experiences, I think all students are talented and my role as a teacher is to guide them to knock on the correct door. To this end, my mentoring philosophy concentrates on encouraging students to ask questions. I treat all students with respect and maintain academic fairness. In addition, I strive to create a friendly learning environment and make students feel comfortable and supported. I think students can improve their performance after they know what they do not know, and a very effective way is by asking questions, so I usually encourage students to ask questions.

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