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2026
Jon Froehlich gives the Human-AI Interaction Seminar at EVLOSCUR’s UW PI visited UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory to give a career retrospective culminating in Project Sidewalk.
Gustavo Moreira defends his PhD dissertationGustavo Moreira defended his dissertation on an ecosystem for authoring urban visual analytics systems, spanning UTK, Curio, Urbanite and Vitral.
Autark tutorial at SIBGRAPI 2026A full-day tutorial at SIBGRAPI 2026 in Goiânia taught how to build urban visual analytics systems that run entirely in the browser with Autark.
A month at UC BerkeleyBack-to-back residencies by Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva at UC Berkeley started work on housing affordability, Tile2Net for the Global South and JupyterGIS.
Sanjana Srabanti defends her PhDCongratulations to Dr. Sanjana Srabanti, who led StreetWeave, on defending her dissertation on visual analytics systems and grammars at UIC.
UrbanTrace accepted to IEEE VIS 2026UrbanTrace, which grounds AI agents in profiled urban data to discover and integrate spatial datasets, will appear in IEEE TVCG.Joao Rulff joins FGV’s School of Applied MathematicsJoao Rulff, who earned his PhD at NYU with OSCUR, joined the faculty of Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro and continues to work with the project.
Chu Li of the University of Washington visits EVLUW PhD candidate Chu Li presented her research on making the tools for understanding and navigating cities more inclusive at UIC.Marcos Lage visits NYU’s VIDA centerMarcos Lage of Universidade Federal Fluminense, a senior collaborator on Autark, spent a week at NYU for research meetings and an invited talk.
College of Engineering awards for Gustavo Moreira and Leonardo FerreiraTwo OSCUR PhD students at UIC received 2026 College of Engineering awards, for research promise and for teaching.
Cities in Motion: a transportation data workshop and hackathon at UICUIC and the University of Toronto brought researchers, students and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning together around transportation data.
Jon Froehlich receives the 2026 ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact AwardOSCUR’s UW PI is recognized for HCI and AI work with social benefit, at the heart of which is Project Sidewalk.Street View for Whom? highlighted by UW SociologyA UW study of four US cities finds that how recently Google Street View imagery was captured follows socioeconomic lines, and releases GSVantage to measure it.
Occlusion-free conformal lensing for 3D urban analytics, at IEEE VR 2026An immersive lens that cuts away occluding geometry and wraps time series around buildings, accepted to IEEE VR 2026 in the TVCG track.2025
Three OSCUR papers at IEEE VIS 2025UIC PhD students Sanjana Srabanti, Leonardo Ferreira and Gustavo Moreira presented StreetWeave, VA-Blueprint and Urbanite at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna.
A neural field approach to view computation in 3D cities, in IEEE TVCGA paper led by UIC PhD student Stefan Cobeli encodes 3D urban environments as neural fields that answer visibility, sunlight and viewpoint queries.Workshop on Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility at ICCV 2025Jon Froehlich and Chu Li co-organized the first CV4A11y workshop at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, where two OSCUR papers on urban accessibility were presented.2024
UIC researchers join national project to turn urban data into healthier citiesThe past decade has seen a flood of data about cities, information with the potential to make communities cleaner, healthier and more livable. UIC scientists will play a key role in realizing that potential.Urban computing to get a boost with new open-source platform funded by the National Science FoundationA research team led by Professor Claudio Silva and NYU Tandon’s VIDA center is developing OSCUR, an open-source platform that makes urban data more accessible and usable, supported by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.