MD4C: Mobility Data for Communities
An open mobility-data platform for understanding visitors, movement, and activity across Massachusetts communities.
01 / PROJECTS
Our work
Urban Dependencies
Revealing the hidden dependency networks between places that structure urban economies and social resilience.
Experienced inequality
Measuring how segregation emerges from daily mobility and social encounters in cities.
Mobile Food Environments
Understanding how daily mobility shapes the food environments people experience and how those environments influence dietary behavior and health.
Behavioral Data Foundations
Advancing the foundations of human mobility science through bias correction, standardized datasets, and privacy-preserving synthetic data.
Epidemic Dynamics in Cities
Using mobility data and agent-based models to understand how epidemics spread through cities and how targeted interventions can reduce transmission.
02 / ACTIVITY
From the lab
May 18, 2026
Bijin Joseph passes dissertation proposal
Bijin Joseph passed his dissertation proposal on behavioral networks in trading, mobility, and consumption.
Apr 3, 2026
Award: Guangyuan Weng
Guangyuan Weng, PhD Student in our group, has been awarded the Outstanding PhD Student Award in Teaching
Apr 3, 2026
Visiting Speaker: Bogang Jun
Mar 4, 2026
Visiting Speaker: Rafael H. M. Pereira
Rafael H. M. Pereira visited the SUNLab group and gave a talk about his work on accessibility and public policies
Feb 19, 2026
Visiting Speaker: Alireza Javadian Sabet
Alireza Javadian Sabet visited and gave a talk on measuring career adaptability across education, work, and migration
Oct 9, 2025
Best conference paper at Netmob 2025
SUN Lab team wins the Best Conference Paper at Netmob 2025, Paris
03 / PUBLICATIONS
Recent papers
Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys
Sanchez, Sarah A. and Gibbs, Hamish and Yabe, Takahiro and O'Brien, Daniel T. and Moro, Esteban
arXiv, 2026
Impact of federated data with local differential privacy for human mobility modeling
Gibbs, Hamish and Musolesi, Mirco and Cheshire, James and Eggo, Rosalind M.
EPJ Data Science 15, 17, 2026
Multihazard exposure and environmental injustice: The correlation between air pollution and heat drives socioeconomic inequities
O’Brien, Daniel T. and Rosen, Joshua and Waziry, Mai and Yabe, Takahiro and Moro, Esteban
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083261424461, 2026
Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience
Chen, Lin and Xu, Fengli and Moro, Esteban and Hui, Pan and Li, Yong and Evans, James
arXiv, 2026
AI exposure predicts unemployment risk: A new approach to technology-driven job loss
Frank, Morgan R and Ahn, Yong-Yeol and Moro, Esteban
PNAS Nexus 4, pgaf107, 2025
04 / PEOPLE
Meet the team
05 / COLLABORATE
Work with SUNLab
Join the lab
- PhD positions
- Postdoctoral researchers
- Research assistants and students
Industry & policy partnerships
- Urban mobility and behavioral analytics
- Economic resilience and spatial risk
- Policy and infrastructure evaluation
Academic collaborations
- Visiting scholars
- Joint research projects
- Workshops and interdisciplinary initiatives