Publications
Bissiri, A., Jiao, J., & Chen, Y. (2022). A scoping review of the benefits of face mask use on pedestrian and bicyclist exposure to air pollutants. Journal of Transport & Health 26 , 101484 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101484
Chen, Y., & Jiao, J. (2022). Are There Transit Deserts in Europe? A Study Focusing on Four European Cases through Publicly Available Data. Sustainability 14 (20) , 13182 . https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013182
Chen, Y., Jiao, J., & Farahi, A. (2023). Disparities in affecting factors of housing price: A machine learning approach to the effects of housing status, public transit, and density factors on single-family housing price. Cities 140 , 104432 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104432
Choi, S. J., & Jiao, J. (2024). Developing a transit desert interactive dashboard: Supervised modeling for forecasting transit deserts. PLOS ONE 19 (7) , e0306782 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306782
Choi, S. J., & Jiao, J. (2024). Measurement of Regional Electric Vehicle Adoption Using Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning. Applied Sciences 14 (5) , 1826 . https://doi.org/10.3390/app14051826
Choi, S. J., Jiao, J., Lee, H. K., & Farahi, A. (2023). Combatting the mismatch: Modeling bike-sharing rental and return machine learning classification forecast in Seoul, South Korea. Journal of Transport Geography 109 , 103587 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103587
Farahi, A., & Jiao, J. (2024). Analyzing racial disparities in the United States homeownership: A socio-demographic study using machine learning. Cities 152 , 105181 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105181
Farahi, A., Ting, A., & Ma, Y. (2023). Measuring and Mitigating Group Inequalities In Resource Allocation. ACM Journal on Responsible Computing 3632122 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3632122
Jiao, J., & Chang, A. (2025). Evaluating sentiment and spatial patterns of EV charging station user experience with AI-agents. International Journal of Urban Sciences 1-29 . https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2025.2547792
Jiao, J., & Wang, H. (2023). Forecasting Traffic Speed During Daytime from Google Street View Images using Deep Learning.. Transportation Research Record .
Jiao, J., Afroogh, S., Chen, K., Atkinson, D., & Dhurandhar, A. (2025). The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and LLMs. Nature Human Behaviour . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02124-6
Jiao, J., Choi, S. J., Wang, H., & Farahi, A. (2023). Evaluating Air Quality Status in Chicago: Application of Street View Imagery and Urban Climate Sensors. Environmental Modeling & Assessment . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-023-09894-1
Jiao, J., Hansen, K., & Azimian, A. (2023). Disparities in the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Transit Ridership in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2677 (4) , 287-297 . https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231159906
Jiao, J., Lee, H. K., & Choi, S. J. (2022). Impacts of COVID-19 on bike-sharing usages in Seoul, South Korea. Cities 130 , 103849 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103849
Jiao, J., Seong, K., Sammer, M., Lewis, R. H., Reese, A., Olvera, N., Gronseth, S. L., Anderson-Fletcher, E., & Kakadiaris, I. (2025). Developing a healthy food access index (HFAI): Web-based mapping and future directions for AI integrations. Cities 161 , 105908 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105908
Jiao, J., Wu, X., Chen, Y., & Farahi, A. (2022). Comparing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Residential Rental Market Across Rental Sectors: Evidence from City of Austin. SSRN Electronic Journal . https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4270016
Jiao, J., Wu, X., Chen, Y., & Farahi, A. (2023). How the single-family residence housing market capitalizes green property upgraded features: evidence from city of Austin. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis . https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-07-2023-0095
Lewis, R. H., Jiao, J., Seong, K., Farahi, A., Navrátil, P., Casebeer, N., & Niyogi, D. (2024). Fire and smoke digital twin – A computational framework for modeling fire incident outcomes. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 110 , 102093 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102093
Mai, G., Xie, Y., Jia, X., Lao, N., Rao, J., Zhu, Q., Liu, Z., Chiang, Y. Y., & Jiao, J. (2025). Towards the next generation of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 136 , 104368 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104368
Mandalapu, A., Jiao, J., & Azimian, A. (2022). Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Air Pollutants and COVID-19 Death Rate: A Case Study for Los Angeles County, California. International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research 9 (1) . https://dc.uwm.edu/ijger/vol9/iss1/4
Mandalapu, A., Seong, K., & Jiao, J. (2024). Evaluating urban fire vulnerability and accessibility to fire stations and hospitals in Austin, Texas. PLOS Climate 3 (7) , e0000448 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000448
Pan, H., Geertman, S., Deal, B., Jiao, J., & Wang, B. (2022). Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era. Journal of Urban Technology 29 (2) , 1-5 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2022.2069938
Phillips, C., & Jiao, J. (2023). Artificial Intelligence & Smart City Ethics: A Systematic Review. 01-05 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154961
Phillips, C., Jiao, J., & Clubb, E. (2024). Testing the Capability of AI Art Tools for Urban Design. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2024.3356169
Sammer, M., Seong, K., Olvera, N., Gronseth, S. L., Anderson-Fletcher, E., Jiao, J., Reese, A., & Kakadiaris, I. A. (2024). AI-FEED: Prototyping an AI-Powered Platform for the Food Charity Ecosystem. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 17 (1) , 259 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s44196-024-00656-9
Seong, K., & Jiao, J. (2023). Is a Smart City Framework the Key to Disaster Resilience? A Systematic Review. Journal of Planning Literature 08854122231199462 . https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122231199462
Seong, K., Choi, S. J., & Jiao, J. (2024). IoT sensors as a tool for assessing spatiotemporal risk to extreme heat. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 1-23 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2024.2320257
Seong, K., Jiao, J., & Mandalapu, A. (2023). Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time. Applied Geography 155 , 102956 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102956
Seong, K., Jiao, J., & Mandalapu, A. (2022). Evaluating the effects of heat vulnerability on heat-related emergency medical service incidents: Lessons from Austin, Texas. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 239980832211296 . https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221129618
Seong, K., Jiao, J., & Mandalapu, A. (2023). Hourly Associations between Heat Index and Heat-Related Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Calls in Austin-Travis County, Texas. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (19) , 6853 . https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196853
Seong, K., Jiao, J., Lewis, R. H., Farahi, A., Navrátil, P., Casebeer, N., Davis, B., Jones, J., & Niyogi, D. (2025). Towards a digital twin for smart resilient cities: real-time fire and smoke tracking and prediction platform for community awareness (FireCom). Computational Urban Science 5 (1) , 49 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-025-00212-x
Seong, K., Jiao, J., Mandalapu, A., & Niyogi, D. (2024). Spatio-temporal patterns of heat index and heat-related Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Sustainable Cities and Society 111 , 105562 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105562
Singh, M., Acharya, N., Jamshidi, S., Jiao, J., Yang, Z. L., Coudert, M., Baumer, Z., & Niyogi, D. (2023). DownScaleBench for developing and applying a deep learning based urban climate downscaling- first results for high-resolution urban precipitation climatology over Austin, Texas. Computational Urban Science 3 (1) , 22 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00096-9
Toscan, P. C., Seong, K., Jiao, J., Nuno Borges Pereira, E., & Leandro Silva Oliveria, M. (2025). Advancing Urban Climate Analysis with Remote Sensing: Evaluating the Impact of Nature-Based Solutions on Surface Temperatures in Guimarães, Portugal. https://sciforum.net/paper/view/21615
Xu, Y., Jiao, J., & Wang, H. (2025). An Urban Digital Twin Framework for Sustainable Transportation and Smart Citties: A Case Study of Austin, TX. https://utexas.box.com/s/0stiaup74dkc0t5tcze0lbk44dabehyn
Yang, H., Lee, J. W., Klepac, S., Santos Cruz, A. U., Subgranon, A., & Jiao, J. (2024). Reconstructing missing data of damaged buildings from post-hurricane reconnaissance data using XGBoost. Frontiers in Built Environment 10 , 1444001 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2024.1444001