Bio:

Dr. Yang Yue is a professor of urban informatics at the Thrust of Urban Governance and Design, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her research and teaching focus on innovations at the intersections of urban big data, GeoAI, and social sustainability. Before joining HKUST (GZ), she had been a professor at Shenzhen University and associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University. She also serves as associate editor of Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, vice chair of the ACM SIGSPATIAL China Chapter.

Talk Title:

The Promise and Limits of Synthetic Human Mobility Data

Abstract:

The limited availability of human mobility trajectory data, due to privacy concerns and compliance risks, has created a bottleneck that hinders the reproducibility and replicability of related research and the advancement of GeoAI. This talk will introduce our recent studies on synthesizing human mobility trajectory data using AI approaches. While synthetic data can partially address the ethical and governance challenges associated with human activity data, it also presents modeling constraints and social concerns, which may offer insights and further dialogue on related studies.