
Urban Dependencies
Revealing the hidden dependency networks between places that structure urban economies and social resilience.
Urban life is not only buildings, streets, and infrastructure.
It emerges from how people move, interact, and access opportunity.
At the Social Urban Networks Lab (SUNLab), we use large-scale behavioral data and network science to reveal the dynamics shaping inequality, resilience, health, and economic life.
01 / PROJECTS

Revealing the hidden dependency networks between places that structure urban economies and social resilience.

Measuring how segregation emerges from daily mobility and social encounters in cities.

Understanding how daily mobility shapes the food environments people experience and how those environments influence dietary behavior and health.


Advancing the foundations of human mobility science through bias correction, standardized datasets, and privacy-preserving synthetic data.

Using mobility data and agent-based models to understand how epidemics spread through cities and how targeted interventions can reduce transmission.
02 / ACTIVITY

Rafael H. M. Pereira visited the SUNLab group and gave a talk about his work on accessibility and public policies

Alireza Javadian Sabet visited and gave a talk on measuring career adaptability across education, work, and migration

SUN Lab team wins the Best Conference Paper at Netmob 2025, Paris

A conversation on social capital in the age of AI

Series of presentations this semester hosted by the SUNLab with focus on urban dynamics, behavioral big data, and experienced inequality in cities.
03 / PUBLICATIONS
We will highlight selected publications here once added.
04 / PEOPLE
05 / COLLABORATE