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Martino Tran is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Complexity Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, focusing on Computational Urban Science. He leads the Urban Predictive Analytics Lab, addressing urban planning challenges through computational data sciences. His work includes technical policy research on the large-scale deployment of smart energy and transport technologies, collaborating with organizations like UNDP and Hitachi's Smart Cities Program. His previous roles include Co-Director of the Master of Engineering Leadership in Urban Systems at UBC and Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he worked on complex resilience risks. His PhD from Oxford specialized in Computational Modelling in Environmental Science, creating behavioral models to study the influence of social networks on the early adoption of electric vehicles for climate change mitigation. Tran's research examines the environmental, societal, and ethical implications of new data and technological infrastructures in urban settings, focusing on how to use complexity sciences and computational methods to measure and address challenges in urban environments, including equity and well-being in the context of smart cities.
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