Conference Contributions

2023

• Balsa-Barreiro, J., Batista, S. F. A. & Menéndez, M. (2023) Mapping terrestrial accessibility with the time-distorted maps: the Spanish case, XV Congreso de Ingeniería de Transporte (CIT 2023), La Laguna, Spain, (accepted).

• Balsa-Barreiro, J., Joe-Hannoun, G., Batista, S., & Menendez, M. (2023) Analysis of travel-time accessibility to healthcare facilities at the regional scale: A case study of Galicia, Spain. Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, Jan. 8-12.

• Batista, S.F.A., Tilg, G. and Menendez, M. (2023) On the potential of aggregated traffic models for network-wide exhaust emission monitoring, Portuguese Annual Meeting of Research in Transportation (GET 2022), Lisbon, February 2023.

• Batista, S., Bramich, D., Balsa-Barreiro, J., & Menendez, M. (2023) A fully Bayesian Mixture Model for partitioning urban networks for MFD applications. Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, Jan. 8-12.

• Batista, S. F. A., Cantelmo, G., Menendez, M., Antoniou, C., and Leclercq, L. (2023) On the modeling of activities using an aggregated approach based on the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram, XV Congreso de Ingenieria del Transporte (CIT), La Laguna, June 2023 (accepted).

• Bramich, D.M., Menendez, M., and Ambühl, L. (2023) Showcasing improved noise models for empirical fundamental diagrams of road traffic using FitFun, 102^nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2023.

• Khan, Z.S., and Menendez, M. (2023) Bye bye to bus bunching: A new solution integrating the splitting and holding of autonomous modular buses, 102^nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2023.

• Sun, S., Batista, S.F.A., Menendez, M., and Wang, Y. (2023) Impact of infrastructure features on the energy consumption of diesel and electric buses: Insights from microsimulation and empirical data, 102^nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2023.

2022

• Ahmadi, M.M., Alrahis, L., Sinanoglu, O., Shafique, M. (2022) NeuroUnlock: Unlocking the Architecture of Obfuscated Deep Neural Networks. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Padova, Italy, July 2022.

• Batista, S., Balsa-Barreiro, J. & Menéndez, M. (2022) Understanding transport flows in urban environments with Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams. Data and Modeling: Applications of Complex Systems, Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2022), Mallorca, Spain, Oct. 17-23.

• Batista, S. F. A., Cantelmo, G., Menendez, M., Antoniou, C., & Leclercq, L. (2022) Activity-based macroscopic fundamental diagram: A bottleneck-like econometric model for general urban networks. 101st Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2022.

• Batista, S. F. A. & Menendez, M. (2022) A simulação dinâmica do tráfego em meio urbano utilizando o diagrama macroscópico fundamental (in Portuguese), 10º Congresso Rodoferroviário Português, Lisbon, July 2022.

• Batista, S.F.A., Bramich, D.M., Balsa-Barreiro, J. & Menendez, M. (2022) Partitioning of urban networks for MFD applications, TRISTAN XI, Mauritius, June 2022.

• Batista, S.F.A., Cantelmo, G., Antoniou, C., & Menendez, M. (2022) Data scarcity in the era of big data. Portuguese Annual Meeting of Research in Transportation (GET 2022), Porto, March 2022.

• Batista, S. F. A., Ameli, M., & Menendez, M. (2022) Simulation-based Dynamic System Optimum on regional networks considering aggregated traffic models, mobil. TUM, Singapore, April 2022.

• Bramich, D.M., Menendez, M., and Ambühl, L. (2022) Properly accounting for the noise in empirical fundamental diagrams of road traffic, Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF), New Delhi, October 2022.

• Elmesalami, N., Abdolhosseini, M.J., Celik, K. (2022)  In-situ TEM imaging of hydrated magnesium carbonate polymorphs during hydration and carbonation of magnesium oxide, 12th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2022), July 11–13, 2022, Irvine, California, USA.

• Elmesalami, N., Hay, R., Singh, I., Krishnan, P., Wang, X., Peng, B., Shahbaz, F., Celik, K.. (2022) Potential of HESEB soft X-ray beamline for applications in sustainable construction materials, HESEB – Helmholtz-SESAME Soft X-Ray Beamline- Workshop on Soft X-Rays, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2022.

• Gyorgy, A., Marlow, T., Abrahao, B., and Makovi, K. (2022) Segregated mobility patterns amplify neighborhood disparities in the spread of COVID-19, 6th European Conference on Social Networks. London, UK, September 2022.

• Hamm, L.S., Loder, A., Tilg, G., Menendez, M., & Bogenberger, K. (2022) Network inefficiency: Empirical findings for six European cities. 101st Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2022. 

• Hay, R., Celik, K. (2022) Physio-chemical evolution and corrosion performance of LC³-based composites under carbonation, 12th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2022), July 11–13, 2022, Irvine, California, USA.

• Hay, R., Singh, I., Wang, X., ElMesalami, N., Celik, K. (2022) Decarbonizing cement production with environmentally-friendly cements in the UAE,  The UAE Climate Change Research Network’s First Conference, March 30-31, 2022, Dubai, UAE.

•  Jin W.L., Martinez, I. & Menendez, M. (2022) Compartmental model and fleet-size management for shared mobility systems with for-hire vehicles, 24^th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), Beijing, July 2022.

• Kantheepan, Y., Chen, Q., and García de Soto, B. (2022). Exploring AR-Based Solutions to Engage Local Workforce in Prefabricated Construction. 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR2022). Seoul, South Korea, 16-19 November 2022.

• Khan, Z.S., and Menendez, M. (2022) A stop-less bus service paradigm using autonomous modular buses, Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS), Dresden, December 2022.

• Khan, Z.S., He, W., & Menendez, M. (2022) Application of modular vehicle technology to mitigate bus bunching. 101st Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2022.

• Khan, Z.S. & Menendez, M. (2022) Using autonomous modular buses to mitigate bus bunching. UAE Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC), Dubai, March 2022. Paper nominated for the Best Paper award.

• Khan, Z.S. & Menendez, M. (2022) A combined bus splitting and holding strategy to prevent bus bunching using autonomous modular buses. 10^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Leuven, June 2022.

• Ko, P., Gopee, M.A., Yu, L., Mansour, M., Garg. Y., and García de Soto, B. (2022). Development of an Instance Segmentation Model for Automatic Identification of Recyclable Objects in Construction Projects. 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR2022). Seoul, South Korea, 16-19 November 2022.

• Maleki, M., Bahrami, M., Menendez, M. & Balsa-Barreiro, J. (2022) Investigating the causal impact of education levels on compliance with mandates, 8^th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Chicago, July 2022.

• Makovi, K., and Molina, M. (2022) How do conservatives and liberals apply fairness principles when they have information about group membership and the structure of economic opportunity? 4th Annual Conference on Experimental Sociology, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2022.

• Makovi, K., and Molina, M. (2022) How do conservatives and liberals apply fairness principles when they have information about group membership and the structure of economic opportunity? 14th International Network of Analytical Sociologists Conference, Florence, Italy, May 2022.

• Marchisio, A., Caramia, G., Martina, M., Shafique, M. (2022) FakeWeather: Adversarial Attacks for Deep Neural Networks Emulating Weather Conditions on the Camera Lens of Autonomous Systems. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Padova, Italy, July 2022.

• Marques J., Batista, S.F.A., Menendez, M. and Coelho, M. (2022) From aggregate traffic models to emissions quantification: connecting the missing dots, Transport Infrastructure and Systems (TIS), Rome, September 2022.

• Marlow, T., Makovi, K. (2022) Irrelevant Policy Options Decrease Conservative Support for Renewable Energy. American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, August 2022.

• Marlow T., Makovi, K., (2022). “Urban Mobility Networks during the COVID‑19 Pandemic”. 6th European Conference on Social Networks.  London, UK. September 2022.

• Marlow, T., and Makovi, K. (2022) Irrelevant policy options decrease conservative support for renewable energy, 4th Annual Conference on Experimental Sociology. Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2022.

• Marlow, T., Makovi, K. (2022) Political Anchoring in Representations of Climate Policy Enables an Effective Politics of Delay. Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES). Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2022.

• Memon, S., Makovi, K., and Alshebli, B. (2022) Characterizing the effect of scientific retractions on collaboration networks, 8th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science. Chicago, USA, July 2022.

• Nguyen, V. (2022) myAQM: Interface Portable Air Quality Sensors with Apple Watch. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC ’22 Adjunct). Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11–15, 2022.

• Putra, R. V. W., Hanif, M. A., Shafique, M. (2022) SoftSNN: low-cost fault tolerance for spiking neural network accelerators under soft errors. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Showcase on Kudos. San Francisco, CA, USA, July 2022.

• Shahbaz, F., Singh, I., Krishnan, P., Celik, K. (2022) Life cycle assessment study for magnesium-based cement produced from reject brine, 12th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2022), July 11–13, 2022, Irvine, California, USA.

• Shen, Z., Cantelmo, G., Batista, S.F.A., Menendez, M. & Antoniou, C. (2022) Active learning for transport studies: The case of rare or sparse demand samples, 10^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Leuven, June 2022.

• Shen, Z., Cantelmo, G., Batista, S., Menendez, M., and Antoniou, C. (2022) Active Learning for transport studies: The case of sparse demand data, Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, November 2022.

• Singh, I., Hay, R., Celik, K. (2022) Investigation of brucite utilization as a potential sustainable building material, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2022 (EMI/PMC 2022), May 31-June 3, 2022, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

• Sun, S., Menendez, M., Batista, S.F.A. & Wang, Y. (2022) Impact of dedicated bus lanes on the energy consumption of battery electric buses: Insights from empirical data, 4^th Bridging Transport Researchers Conference, Online, August 2022.

• Sun, S., Batista, S.F.A., Menendez, M. & Wang, Y. (2022) Examining the effect of infrastructure features on the energy consumption of diesel and electric buses: A microsimulation-based analysis, 10^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Leuven, June 2022.

• Thodi, B.T., Jabari, S.E. (2022) Learning Resolution-Invariant Solutions for LWR-Type Traffic Flow Models. TRBAM-22-002521. 101st Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2022.

• Xu, Y., Su, P., Coplin, A., Makovi, K. (2022) Contested Membership: Experimental Evidence on Public Attitudes about Return Migration in Mainland China during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Migration Roundtables: Global (Im)mobility and the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA, August 2022.

2021

• Batista, S. F. A., Cantelmo, G., Menendez, M., & Antoniou, C. (2021). On the calculation of a virtual set of trips for the calibration of aggregated traffic models. 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2021.

• Batista, S. F. A., Cantelmo, G., Paipuri, M., Leclercq, L., Menendez, M., & Antoniou, C. (2021). Activity-based dynamic traffic assignment on regional networks and aggregated traffic models. International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA), Seattle, June 2021.

• Batista, S.F.A., & Menendez, M. (2021) On the characterization of eco-friendly paths for regional networks. Euro Working Group in Transportation (EWGT) Meeting, Aveiro, September 2021.

• Bramich, D.M., Menendez, M., & Ambühl, L. (2021) FitFun: Improved noise models for Fundamental Diagrams. International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modelling (ISTDM), Ann Arbor, June 2021.

• Hannoun, G. J., & Menendez, M. (2021). Modular technology for emergency medical services. 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2021.

• Hannoun, G. J., & Menendez, M. (2021) Modular dispatching and redeployment system for emergency medical services. Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Seoul, August 2021.

• Hay, R., Peng, B., Celik, K., Manufacturing and characterization of lunar regolith simulants. 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2021), October 25 – 29, 2021,  Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

• Hay, R., Otchere, C., Celik, K., Phase composition, microstructure and mechanical properties of recycled reactive MgO cement (RMC)-Based composites under carbonation. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2021 (EMI/PMC 2021), May 25-28, 2021, Virtual Conference.

• Genser, A., Ambühl, L., Yang, K., Menendez, M., & Kouvelas, A. (2021) Enhancement of SPaT-messages with Machine Learning based Time-To-Green predictions. 9th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Lyon, February 2021.

• Kim, S., Menendez, M., & Yeo, H. (2021). Methodology to increase the flexibility in inter-region flow control for urban traffic. 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2021. 

• Marchisio, A., Pira, G., Martina, M., Masera, G., & Shafique, M. (2021). R-snn: An analysis and design methodology for robustifying spiking neural networks against adversarial attacks through noise filters for dynamic vision sensors. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, September 2021.

• Marchisio, A., Pira, G., Martina, M., Masera, G., & Shafique, M. (2021). Dvs-attacks: Adversarial attacks on dynamic vision sensors for spiking neural networks. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Shenzhen, July 2021.

• Putra, R. V. W., Hanif, M. A., & Shafique, M. (2021). SparkXD: A framework for resilient and energy-efficient spiking neural network inference using approximate DRAM. IEEE/ACM 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, July 2021.

• Putra, R. V. W., & Shafique, M. (2021). SpikeDyn: A framework for energy-efficient spiking neural networks with continual and unsupervised learning capabilities in dynamic environments. IEEE/ACM 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, December 2021.

• Thodi, B. T., Khan, Z. S., Jabari, S. E., & Menendez, M. (2021) Anisotropic kernels for deep convolutional neural network-based traffic speed reconstruction. 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2021.

• Thodi, B. T., Khan, Z. S., Jabari, S. E., & Menéndez, M. (2021). Learning traffic speed dynamics from visualizations. IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Indianapolis, USA. September 2021.

• Tilg, G., Ambuhl, L., Batista, S. F. A., Menendez, M., Leclercq, L., & Busch, F. (2021) Semi-analytical estimation of macroscopic fundamental diagrams: From corridors to networks. 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2021.

• Viale, A., Marchisio, A., Martina, M., Masera, G., & Shafique, M. (2021) CarSNN: An efficient spiking neural network for event-based autonomous cars on the loihi neuromorphic research processor. IEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Shenzhen, July 2021.

• Wang, Y., Maniatakos, M., & Jabari, S. E. (2021). A Trigger Exploration Method for Backdoor Attacks on Deep Learning-Based Traffic Control Systems. 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Texas, December 2021.

• Wang, X., Celik, K. (2021) 3D printable lightweight reactive magnesium oxide cement composite with improved thermal insulation. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2021 (EMI/PMC 2021), May 25-28, 2021, Virtual Conference.

• Wang, X., Wambura, V.D., Ashmawy, D., Singh, I., Celik, K. (2021) Improving buildability of limestone calcined clay-based cementitious materials by incorporating nanoclay. 11th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2021), June 23-25, 2021, Virtual Conference.

2020

• Benkrouda, O., Thodi, B. T., Yeo, H., Menendez, M., & Jabari, S. E. G. (2020). Traffic state reconstruction using deep convolutional neural networks. 99^th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB). Washington D.C., January 2020.

• Batista, S. F. A., Cantelmo, G., Menendez, M., & Antoniou, C. (2020). The calculation of the virtual set of trips for the calibration of aggregated traffic models. 3rd Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS), Luxembourg, July 2020.

• Batista, S. F. A., Ingole, D., Leclercq, L., & Menendez, M. (2020). The role of trip lengths in perimeter control strategy, 99^th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2020.

• Batista, S. F. A. & Menendez, M. (2020). The ecologically friendly paths on regional networks. Encontro do Grupo de Estudos em Transportes (GET), Covilhã, February 2020.

• Batista, S. F. A., Leclercq, L., & Menendez, M. (2020). Regional dynamic traffic assignment framework with time-dependent trip lengths, 99^th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB), Washington D.C., January 2020.

• Brucato, M., Yadav, N., Abouzied, A., Haas, P. J., & Meliou, A. (2020). Stochastic package queries in probabilistic databases. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Portland, June 2020.

• Hay, R., Singh, I., & Celik, K. (2020). Synthesis of brucite from reject brine and its direct carbonation for possible use as construction material. Goldschmidt, Virtual, June 2020.

• Hay, R., & Celik, K. (2020). Accelerated carbonation of reactive MgO cement (RMC)-based composite for potential industrial application. Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, February 2020.

• Hay, R., & Celik, K. (2020). Performance and characterization of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) with low reactivity clay and limestone of different particle sizes. Limestone Calcined Clay Cements (LC3) Information Day, Abu Dhabi, February 2020.

• Genser, A., Ambühl, L., Yang, K., Menendez, M., & Kouvelas, A. (2020). Time-to-Green predictions: A framework to enhance SPaT messages using machine learning. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rhodes, September 2020.

• Li, L., Lin, D., & Jabari, S. E. (2020). A user-based charge and subsidy scheme for single OD network mobility management. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rhodes, September 2020.

• Li, W., Yang, C., & Jabari, S. E. (2020). Short-term traffic forecasting using high-resolution traffic data. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rhodes, September, 2020.

• Lin, D., & Jabari, S. E. (2020). Comparative analysis of economic instruments in intersection operation: A user-based perspective. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rhodes, September, 2020.