Recent News
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UIL researchers invited to present at ACSP 2026
Prof. Kontokosta, Bartosz Bonczak, and Boyeong Hong were accepted to present their work on AI and 311 complaint data at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference.
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Congratulations to UIL PhD Candidate Bartosz Bonczak!
Bartosz successfully defended his dissertation titled “Urban Systems in Motion: Harnessing Mobility Data and Machine Learning to Explore Neighborhood Interactions and Socio-Spatial Change in the Post-Pandemic Era.”
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Paper published in Nature Cities
“Commuter loss and retention in US employment centers during COVID-19 and its aftermath” by Bartosz Bonczak, Shlomo Angel, and Constantine E. Kontokosta in Nature Cities.
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New report on building performance standards
UIL and the Guarini Center at the NYU School of Law release a new cross-city study on building performance standards, supported by the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund.
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Kontokosta receives funding from RERI
Prof. Kontokosta received a grant from the Real Estate Research Institute for a project on machine learning and real estate markets.
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Kontokosta presents at University of Toronto
Director Kontokosta gave a talk titled Urban AI: Artificial Decisions, Human Impacts at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities.
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UIL presents at NYC Open Data Week
UIL and Marron Institute researchers Callie Clark and Bartosz Bonczak present on AI research using NYC open data.
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UIL and Civic Analytics annual highlights
A 2025 year-in-review for the Urban Intelligence Lab and the Civic Analytics program.
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New funding
New York City and UIL receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its building decarbonization and resiliency goals.
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New NSF award
Prof. Kontokosta, together with co-PI Lance Freeman at the University of Pennsylvania, received a NSF grant for their project titled “Neighborhood Dynamics and the Inequality of Place: Using Large-Scale Mobility Behavior Data to Understand Socio-Spatial Disparities in Community Connectedness.”
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Bonczak joins Advisory Council
Bartosz Bonczak joins the Advisory Council for the CityWorks exhibit at the New York Hall of Science.
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Callie Clark publishes paper
UIL PhD student Callie Clark’s research on emergency food access in New York City has been published in Health & Place.
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UIL researchers present at ACSP annual conference
Prof. Kontokosta organized a session on mobility data and neighborhood dynamics, and presented at the Urban Planning AI workshop. Bartosz Bonczak and Callie Clark presented papers on recent NSF-funded research.
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Paper published in Annals of Applied Statistics
The paper, co-authored by Kate Boxer, Boyeong Hong, Daniel Neill, and Constantine Kontokosta, examines reporting bias in 311 complaints related to heat and hot water problems in multifamily housing.
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Kontokosta presents at TMU research symposium
Kontokosta presents work on building performance standards at the Toronto Metropolitan University and REALPAC real estate research symposium.