Develop new knowledge, methodologies, and tools to enhance the understanding of Dubai's physical, digital, natural, and built environments.
The Senseable City Dubai (SCD) is the first-ever MIT Senseable City Lab in the Middle East, established in partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation. Drawing upon the expertise of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SCD explores the relationship between cities, people, and technologies, and investigates how the ubiquity of digital devices and telecommunication networks are impacting urban living. Adopting an omni-disciplinary approach, it caters to designers, planners, engineers, physicists, biologists, and social scientists. Apply today and join us in our mission to create more diverse and inclusive cities.
MIT has been at the forefront of developing AI models to assess image-based urban data analytics. We use AI techniques to investigate different urban phenomena.
Evidence-based policy is gaining traction globally. We explore new data sets and develop methods to have policy decisions informed by objective evidence.
Data can also be generated by deploying an array of specific sensors. Embedding technology into the urban environment can yield robust and fine-grained data to reveal humanity’s fingerprint.
Sustainable ways of living on a warming planet are challenging. We advance sciences to improve the way we live in indoor and outdoor spaces in Dubai.
By analyzing the digital layer of information and digital traces that we leave in our cities, we can uncover patterns of the natural and built environment and propose solutions.
How do the shortest and the shadiest paths converge to improve pedestrians' thermal comfort in warm cities?
Can we quantify the cooling impact of trees using thermal imaging and environmental data?
Can we use AI to predict speed compliance?
How does the food landscape shape our health and the distance our food travels?
Is biophilia perceived universally?
Does all urban greenery look the same?
How could bundling optimize delivery orders, decrease traffic, and achieve sustainability goals?
What if we empowered communities to monitor their environment through a maker-centric approach?
How to inform the global mapping of sidewalk features and obstacles (i.e. waste) using visual data?
Meet Our Team
MIT Senseable City Lab
Carlo Ratti Director
Martina Mazzarello Senseable Global Labs Lead
Alaa Alradwan Senseable City Dubai Lead
Fábio Duarte Principal Research Scientist
Paolo Santi Principal Research Scientist
Dubai Future Foundation
Abdulaziz AlJaziri SCD Governing Board
Khalifa AlQama SCD Governing Board
Rashed Almulla SCD Management Team
Current Researchers
Matthias Fitzky Postdoctoral Fellow
Chada Elalami Research Fellow
Muhammed Noshin Research Fellow
Cong Zheng Visiting Student
Hui Zhong Visiting Student
Dara Varam Visiting Student
Maria Boxwala Visiting Student
Habiba Elkholy Visiting Student
Web Design
Jingrong Zhang Initial Design
Chada Elalami Updated Design
Past Researchers
Xuan He, Javad Eshtiyagh, Jianxiu Wen, John Hadaway, Stella von Zimburg, Devesh Pansare, Raghad Aldamani, Ruoxi Wang, Wenhan Wu, Qiwei Song, Diaa Addeen Abuhani
We always seek outstanding candidates from a variety of backgrounds besides our specific position openings. We encourage applications from minorities and other under-represented groups. Apply today as a postdoc, research fellow or data visualization specialist.