Publications

67. Jiahui Wu, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Spatial sensitivity analysis for urban hotspots using cell phone traces". Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2021. [PDF][Suppl]

66. Aref Darzi, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Sepher Gadher, Hannah Younes and Lei Zhang, "Constructing evacuation evolution patterns and decisions using mobile device location data: a case study of hurricane Irma". Transportation Research Board, 2021. [PDF]

65. Jiahui Wu, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Addressing Under-Reporting to Enhance Fairness and Accuracy in Mobility-based Crime Prediction." In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2020. [PDF]

64. Lingzi Hong and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Modeling and Predicting Evacuation Flows during Hurricane Irma", EPJ Data Science 9, no.1, 2020. [PDF]

63. Jiahui Wu, Lingzi Hong, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Predicting perceived level of cycling safety for cycling trips". In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2019. [PDF]

62. Wei Kang, Taylor Oshan, Levi J. Wolf, Geoff Boeing, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Song Gao, Ate Poorthuis, and Wenfei Xu. "A Roundtable Discussion: Defining Urban Data Science." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46 (9), 2019. [PDF]

61. Suraj Nair, Kiran Javkar, Jiahui Wu and Vanessa Frias-Martinez. "Understanding Cycling Trip Purpose and Route Choice Using GPS Traces and Open Data". In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, IMWUT 2019. [PDF]

60. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Lingzi Hong, Jiahui Wu, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Andres Villareal. "Analysis of Post-Migration Mobility and Social Ties of Internal Migrants". International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2019 (Oral presentation). [PDF]

59. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Lingzi Hong, Jiahui Wu, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Andres Villareal. "Comparison and Analysis of Migrant Identification Methods". International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2019 (Oral presentation). [PDF]

58. Lingzi Hong, Jiahui Wu, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Andres Villarreal and Vanessa Frias-Martinez. "Characterization of Internal Migrant Behavior in the Immediate Post-Migration Period using Cell Phone Traces". International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2019. [PDF]

57. Jiahui Wu, Lingzi Hong and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Predicting Perceived Cycling Safety Levels Using Open and Crowdsourced Data", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018. [PDF]

56. Myeong Lee, Lingzi Hong, Afra Mashhadi and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Towards Understanding Communication Behavior Changes during Floods using Cell Phone Data", International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2018. (Short paper) [PDF]

55. Cheng Fu, Grant McKenzie, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Kathleen Steward, "Identifying Spatio-temporal Urban Activities through Linguistic Signatures", Journal of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Elsevier, 2018. [PDF]

54. Lingzi Hong, Cheng Fu and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Information Needs and Communication Gaps between Citizens and Local Governments Online during Natural Disasters", Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, 2018. [PDF]

53. Jiahui Wu and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "An Analysis of the Relationship between Crime Incidents and 911 Calls", Association for Information Science and Technology, Annual Meeting, ASIS&T 2018 (Visual Presentation). [PDF]

52. Sibren Isaacman, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Modeling Human Migration Patterns During Drought Conditions in La Guajira, Colombia", ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, ACM COMPASS 2018. [PDF]

51. Lingzi Hong, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Andres Villareal, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Accuracy and Bias in the Identification of Internal Migrants Using Cell Phone Data", AAAI ICWSM, Workshop on Making Sense of Online Data for Population Research, 2018. [PDF]

50. Lingzi Hong, Cheng Fu, Paul Torrens and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Understanding Citizen's and Local Governments' Digital Communications During Natural Disasters: The Case of Snowstorms", Proceedings of the Web Science Conference, ACM WebSci 2017. [PDF]

49. Marco Hernandez, Lingzi Hong, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Andrew Whitby, Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Estimating Poverty Using Cell Phone Data", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7969, 2017. [PDF]

48. Lingzi Hong, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "LDA Mapping of Regional Socioeconomic Status", International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2017 (Oral presentation). [PDF]

47. Sibren Isaacman, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Lingzi Hong, Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Climate Change Induced Migrations from a Cell Phone Perspective", International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2017 (Poster presentation). [PDF]

46. Gaurav Paruthi, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Peer-to-peer Microlending platforms: Characterization of Online Traits", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2016 (Workshop on Big Data for Sustainable Development) [PDF].

45. Lingzi Hong, Weiwei Yang, Philip Resnik, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Uncovering Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: the Case of Ferguson", International Conference on Social Informatics, 2016 [PDF].

44. Gaurav Paruthi, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "The Role of Rating and Loan Characteristics in Online Microfunding Behaviors", Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange, 2016 [PDF].

43. Jay Ghurye, Gautier Krings, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "A Framework to Model Human Behavior at Large Scale during Natural Disasters", IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2016 [PDF].

42. Lingzi Hong, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Topic Models to Infer Socioeconomic Maps", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016 [PDF].

41. Jiaying He, Lingzi Hong, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Paul Torrens,"Uncovering Social Media Reaction Patterns to Protest Events: A Spatiotemporal Dynamics Perspective of Ferguson Unrest", International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2015. [PDF].

40. Bill Wu, Lingzi Hong and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Crowdsourcing Biking Times", Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, PURBA, International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2015. [PDF].

39. Gaurav Paruthi, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Understanding Lending Behaviors on Online Microlending Platforms: The Case for Kiva", International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2015. [PDF].

38. A. Morales, D. Pastor, Y. Torres, V. Frias-Martinez, E. Frias-Martinez, N. Oliver, A. Rutherfors, T. Logar, R. Clausen, O. De Backer, M. Luego-Oroz, "Studying Human Behavior through the Lens of Mobile Phones during Floods", International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2015 [PDF] [Poster].

37. Tony Liang and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Cars and Calls: Using CDR Data to Approximate Official Traffic Counts", D4D Challenge, International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2015 [PDF].

36. Andreea Molnar, Jesus Virseda and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Insights from EducaMovil: Involving Teachers in Creating Educational Content for Mobile Learning Games", Journal of Interactive Learning Research, volume 26(2), 2015. [PDF]

35. D. Pastor, A.Morales, Y. Torres, J. Bauer, A. Wadha, C. Castro-Correo, A. Calderon-Mariscal, L. Romanoff, J. Lee, A. Rutherfors, V. Frias-Martinez, N. Oliver, E. Frias-Martinez, M. Luego-Oroz, "Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activity", IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GTHC 2014. [PDF].

34. Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Spectral Clustering for Sensing Urban Land Use using Twitter Activity", Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, volume 35, October 2014, pp 237-245. [PDF]

33. Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Crowdsourcing Land Use Maps via Twitter", Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (DSSG), KDD 2014. [PDF]

32. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Younnes Moumni and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Estimation of traffic flow using passive cell-phone data", Workshop on Data Science and Macro-Modeling (DSMM), SIGMOD 2014. [PDF]

31. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Abson Sae-tang and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "To Call, or To Tweet? Understanding 3-1-1 Citizen Complaint Behaviors", International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2014. [PDF]

30. John Quinn, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Lakshminarayan Subramanian, "Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence in the Developing World", AI Magazine, 2014. [PDF]

29. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Victor Soto, Angel Sanchez and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Consensus Clustering for Urban Land Use Analysis using Cell Phone Network Data", International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2014. [PDF]

28. Younes Moumny, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Characterizing Social Response to Urban Earthquakes using Cell-Phone Network Data: The 2012 Oaxaca Earthquake", Third Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, Pervasive 2013. [PDF]

27. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Victor Soto, Jesus Virseda and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Can Cell Phone Traces Measure Social Development?", International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2013 (Oral Presentation). [PDF]

26. Enrique Frias-Martinez, Graham Williamson and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Simulation of Epidemic Spread Using Cell Phone Call Data: H1N1 Case Study", International Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets, NetMob 2013 (Poster). [PDF]

25. Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Jesus Virseda, "Cell Phone Analytics: Scaling Human Behavior Studies into the Millions", Journal of Information Technologies and International Development, ITID, Issue 2, Volume 9, 2013. [PDF]

24. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "TIC, desarrollo y negocios inclusivos", Capítulo 14 Telefonía Móvil y Mercados Emergentes Latinoamericanos (Book Chapter in Mobile phones and Emerging Markets in Latin America). Ariel Eds., 2013.[PDF]

23. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Cristina Soguero, Malvina Josephidou and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Forecasting Socioeconomic Trends With Cell Phone Records", 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2013.[PDF]

22. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Victor Soto, Heath Hohwald and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Characterizing Urban Landscapes Using Geolocated Tweets", 4th International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2012. [PDF]

21. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Cristina Soguero and Enrique Frias Martinez, "Estimation of Urban Commuting Patterns Using Cellphone Network Data", ACM Workshop on Urban Computing, KDD 2012. [PDF]

20. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Jesus Virseda and Aldo Gomero, "EducaMovil: A Mobile Learning Tool For Low-Income Schools", Demo at MobileHCI 2012. [PDF]

19. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Jesus Virseda and Aldo Gomero, "Mobilizing Education: Evaluation of a Mobile Learning Tool in a Low-Income School", MobileHCI 2012. [PDF]

18. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Alberto Rubio and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Measuring the Impact of Epidemic Alerts on Human Mobility using Cell-Phone Network Data", Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications at Pervasive 2012. [PDF].

17. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Victor Soto, Jesus Virseda and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Computing Cost-Effective Census Maps From Cell Phone Traces", Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, Pervasive 2012. [PDF].

16. Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Jesus Virseda and Enrique Frías-Martínez, "SocioEconomic Status and Physical Mobility", Journal of Information Technology for Development (ITD), February Issue, pages 1-16, 2012. [PDF]

15. Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Jesus Virseda,"On The Relationship Between Socio-Economic actors and Cell Phone Usage", 3rd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2012 [PDF]

14. Enrique Frias-Martinez, Graham Williamson and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "An Agent-Based Model Of Epidemic Spread Using Human Mobility and Social Network Information", 3rd International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2011.[PDF]

13. Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Jesus Virseda, "Personalization Of Mobile Learning Tools For Low-Income Populations", Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments Workshop, UMAP 2011. [PDF]

12. Victor Soto and Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Jesus Virseda and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Prediction of Socioeconomic Levels using Cell Phone Records", International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2011. [PDF]

11. Andreea Molnar and Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "EducaMovil: Mobile Educational Games Made Easy", Ed-Media World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 2011. [PDF]

10. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Alberto Rubio and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Measuring the Impact of Epidemic Alerts on Human Mobility", Technical Report Telefonica, 2011. [PDF]

9. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, "Technologies for Emerging Economies in Latin America", in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Research on ICT For Human Development, 2010. [PDF]

8. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Jesús Virseda and Enrique Frías-Martínez, "Socio-Economic Levels and Human Mobility", Qual Meets Quant Workshop, ICTD 2010. [PDF]

7. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Jesús Virseda and Enrique Frías-Martínez, "The Anatomy of Mobile Handsets: On the development of effective cell phone services", International Conference on Mobile Communication Technology for Development, M4D 2010. [PDF]

6. Marco Vieira, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Nuria Oliver and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Characterizing Dense Urban Areas from Mobile Phone-Call Data: Discovery and Social Dynamics", 2nd International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2010. [PDF]

5. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Jesús Virseda, Alberto Rubio and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Towards Large Scale Technology Impact Analyses: Automatic Residential Localization from Mobile Phone-Call Data" (Poster), International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2010. [PDF]

4. M. Vieira , E. Frias-Martinez, P. Bakalov, V. Frias-Martinez, V. Tsotras, "Querying Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Mobile Phone-Call Datasets", The 11th Int Conf. On Mobile Data Management, MDM 2010. [PDF]

3. Luigi di Caro, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez, "Analyzing The Role Of Dimension Arrangement For Data Visualization in Radviz", The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2010. [PDF]

2. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Nuria Oliver, "A Gender-centric Analysis of Calling Behavior in a Developing Economy Using Call Detail Records", AAAI Spring Symposia Artificial Intelligence for Development, AI-D 2010. [PDF]

1. Alberto Rubio, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Enrique Frias-Martinez and Nuria Oliver, "Human Mobility in Advanced and Developing Economies: A Comparative Analysis", AAAI Spring Symposia Artificial Intelligence for Development, AI-D 2010. [PDF]