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October 14th–16th, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

NetMob 2026 — Full Program

October 14th–16th, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

    Wednesday, October 14th

    Session 1: Mobility Foundations

    Wednesday, October 14th · 09:00–10:00

    • MC A behavioral census of US cities from interpretable mobility embeddings

      Hamish Gibbs (Northeastern University, USA), Esteban Moro (Northeastern University, USA)

    • MC The power law in human mobility is a mixture artifact: evidence from a pandemic natural experiment

      Leo Ferres (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), Bruno Gonçalves (D4Sci, USA)

    • MC The Hyperfractal Dimension: Measuring the Multi-Scale Structure of Urban Mobility

      Geoffrey Deperle (INRIA Saclay, France), Philippe Jacquet (INRIA, France)

    • MC Navigating decision points in mobility data

      Giuseppe Perona (UC Berkeley, USA), Marta Gonzalez (UC Berkeley, USA)

    Keynote 1

    Wednesday, October 14th, 10:30–11:30

    Beyond the Trace: GeoAI and Open Geodata as the Context Layer for Mobility Where the Map Runs Out

    Alexandre ZipfAlexandre Zipf

    Chair of GIScience (Geoinformatics) at Heidelberg University, Germany.

    Session 2: Data and Methods

    Wednesday, October 14th · 11:30–12:45

    • MC An Interactive Stop-Detection-Algorithm Tool for Comparison and Visualization

      Jorge Barreras (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Tina Ni (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Lorenzo Santos (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA), Celia Tung (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Darren Wang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

    • MC Fastkit-Mobility: A High-Performance, DataFrame-Agnostic Library for Mobility Analysis

      Gustavo H. B. dos Santos (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil), Aline Carneiro Viana (Inria Saclay, France), Luca Pappalardo (CNR Pisa, Italy), Thiago H. Silva (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil)

    • MC Correcting socioeconomic bias in mobile phone mobility estimates

      Leo Ferres (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), Laetitia Gauvin (IRD, France)

    • MC Selection Bias in Phone-Based Migration Statistics: Evidence and Correction Strategies

      Paul Blanchard (World Bank, France), Sveta Milusheva (World Bank, USA), Francisco Rowe (University of Liverpool, UK), Stefania Rubrichi (Orange, France)

    • MC Identifying and characterizing dangerous road sections using vehicle telemetry and OpenStreetMap data

      Giovana Piorino (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Andrea Lanzillotta (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Luca Vassio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Danilo Giordano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Ana P. C. da Silva (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Claudio De Tommasi (Unipoltech, Italy), Marco Di Cristina (Unipoltech, Italy)

    Session 3: Urban Life and Inequality

    Wednesday, October 14th · 14:00–16:00

    • MC People-Place Networks Reveal Economic Disparities in United States

      Baoshen Guo (MIT, USA), Yuzhou Chen (University of Florida, USA), Shenhao Wang (University of Florida, USA)

    • MC Digital Fingerprints of Multicultural Communities

      Máximo Pirri (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain), Ada D'Iorio (IMDEA Networks, Spain), Diego Madariaga (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain), Zbigniew Smoreda (Orange, France), Marco Fiore (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

    • MC Amenity Proximity Redistributes Mobility Across Home, Workplace, and City Center: Evidence from Austria

      Piero Birello (Central European University, Austria), Andrew Renninger (Central European University, Austria), Marton Karsai (Central European University, Austria)

    • MC Planning for isolation? The role of urban form and function in shaping mobility in Brasília

      Andrew Renninger (Central European University, Austria)

    • MC Beyond Proximity: Rethinking Urban Accessibility Through Human Mobility Patterns in United States

      Saumitra Kulkarni (Northeastern University, USA), Esteban Moro (Northeastern University, USA)

    • MC Moving Unequally: Phone-Based Mobility Metrics Reveal Socio-Spatial Inequality in Mexico City

      Randy B. Gallegos-Rodríguez (Centro de Investigación en Computación, Mexico), Miguel Jesús T. Ruiz (Centro de Investigación en Computación, Mexico), Maribel R. Hernandez (CINVESTAV-IRA, Mexico)

    • MC The parenthood effect in urban mobility

      Mariana Macedo (Constructor University, Germany), Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter, UK), Alessio Cardillo (University of Barcelona, Spain)

    • MC Measuring the Daytime POI-visit Impacts of Hybrid Work across U.S. Cities

      Callie Clark (New York University, USA), Xiaotong Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), Wei Ma (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China), Takahiro Yabe (New York University, USA)

    Poster Session

    Wednesday, October 14th · Coffee breaks

    • MC GraniteMob: An AI Framework for Mobility Intelligence in the City of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

      Krishna M. Bathula (Pace University, USA), Jaiden Roman (Pace University, USA), Amir Abdullozoda (Pace University, USA), Christelle Scharff (Pace University, USA)

    • MC Beyond Geographic Proximity: A Methodological Framework Informed by Mobility Data for Assessing Access to Specialized Hospital Services

      Darcio L. Mario (Ebserh, Brazil), Rodrigo P. Campos (Ebserh, Brazil), Aluizio N. da Silva Junior (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Marco de O. da Silva (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)

    • MC Mobile Data for Public Good: Sustainable Pathways within a Changing Mobile Ecosystem

      Anna Colquhoun (GSMA, UK)

    • MC Using UAVs To Improve The Logistics Of Medical Supply Transport In Urban Areas

      Pedro H. Maia (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, Brazil), Gabriel F. Pereira (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, Brazil), Felipe Belem (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, Brazil), Humberto T. Marques-Neto (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, Brazil)

    • MC Scalable multilayer urban social networks using Call Detail Records and census data

      Paulo G. N. Cançado (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil), Carolina R. Xavier (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil), Alexandre G. Evsukoff (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Vinícius da F. Vieira (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil)

    • MC Daily municipal bus demand forecasting in Niterói: combining weekly recurrence, calendar effects, and operational heterogeneity

      Matheus Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio e Janeiro, Brazil), Marina Baltar (Universidade Federal do Rio e Janeiro, Brazil), Luís E. Santos (CEFET-RJ, Brazil), (CEFET/RJ, Brazil), Glaydston M. Ribeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio e Janeiro, Brazil), Anderson Marden (Universidade Federal do Rio e Janeiro, Brazil)

    Thursday, October 15th

    Session 4: Health and Risk

    Thursday, October 15th · 08:30–10:00

    • MC A Multi-resolution Mobility-aware Framework for Dynamic Air Pollution Exposure Assessment

      Bassel Othman (IFPEN, France), Guillaume Sabiron (IFPEN, France)

    • MC Social media-based measures of social capital attenuate economic disparities in extreme weather evacuations and recovery

      Aparimit Kasliwal (UC Berkeley, USA), Carlos Guirado (UC Berkeley, USA), Marta Gonzalez (UC Berkeley, USA)

    • MC Prediction of Infection Risk in an Epidemic Contact Network via Temporal Line Graph Representations

      Mathieu Gilles (Télécom SudParis, France), Zaher Moussawel (Télécom SudParis, France), Miguel Nunez-del-Prado (World Bank, USA), Hugo Alatrista-Salas (De Vinci, France), Vincent Gauthier (Télécom SudParis, France)

    • MC The Effect of Mobility Trajectory Sparsity on Epidemic Modeling Outcomes

      Federico Delussu (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Jorge Barreras (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Yuan Liao (Lund University, Sweden), Duncan J. Watts (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Laura Alessandretti (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

    • MC Mobility Networks Reveal Association between Dynamic Food Environment and Chronic Cardiometabolic Diseases across U.S. Cities

      Yuzhou Chen (University of Florida, USA), Baoshen Guo (MIT, USA), Chang Zhao (University of Florida, USA), Shanting Chen (University of Florida, USA), Shenhao Wang (University of Florida, USA)

    • MC Transmission-aware mobility interventions for epidemic control

      Bibandhan Poudyal (University of Rochester, USA), David S. Panos (University of Rochester, USA), Gourab Ghoshal (University of Rochester, USA)

    Keynote 2

    Thursday, October 15th, 10:30–11:30

    From Digital Traces to Behavioral Insights: LLMs, Data Bias, and Fairness

    Vanessa Frias-MartinezVanessa Frias-Martinez

    Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Maryland.

    Session 5: Data Challenge

    Thursday, October 15th · 11:30–12:45

    • DC Privacy and anonymization of stochastic mobility trajectories from bus payment logs

      Vincenzo Ricciardelli (Politecnico di Torino), Nikhil Jha (Politecnico di Torino), Luca Vassio (Politecnico di Torino)

    • DC Unequal by Design: Bus Network Structure, Social Vulnerability, and Favela Access in Niterói

      Issa Moussa Diop (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour), Ali Yassin (Université Bourgogne Europe), Randy Brandon Gallegos-Rodríguez (Instituto Politécnico Nacional), Tonatiuh Suárez-Meaney (SEDATU, Mexico), Maribel Hernández-Rosales (CINVESTAV Irapuato)

    • DC Planned and experienced accessibility reveal contrasting diagnoses of transit poverty and inequality

      Egor Kotov (TU Dortmund University; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), Yuan Liao (Lund University), Leonardo Akinaga Moreira (University of São Paulo), Rafael H. M. Pereira (Institute for Applied Economic Research – Ipea)

    • DC Edge on Wheels: Forecasting Bus Fleet Compute with Calibrated Uncertainty

      Wellington Lobato (Inria Saclay), Nadjib Achir (Inria Saclay), Aline Carneiro Viana (Inria Saclay)

    • DC Transit Opportunity Landscapes Under Climate Stress: Spatial Equity, Vulnerability Evaluation, and the Usage–Accessibility Gap

      Chenchen Sun (The University of Tokyo; Renmin University of China), Yuxi Zhang (The University of Tokyo), Yichuan Zhang (The University of Tokyo), Shuata Okuaki (Pitzer College), Yuya Shibuya (The University of Tokyo)

    Session 6: Behavioral Dynamics

    Thursday, October 15th · 14:00–16:00

    • MC Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience

      Lin Chen (Northeastern University, USA), Fengli Xu (Tsinghua University, China), Esteban Moro (Northeastern University, USA), Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany), Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China), James Evans (University of Chicago, USA)

    • MC Spatiotemporal dynamics of adult content consumption: mapping traffic peaks and socioeconomic indicators

      Ada D'Iorio (IMDEA Networks, Spain), Thomas Mas (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain), Diego Madariaga (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain), Zbigniew Smoreda (Orange, France), Marco Fiore (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

    • MC Infrastructure Matters: Quantifying Measurement Bias in Mobile Phone Mobility Data

      Leo Ferres (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), Erick Elejalde (L3S Research Center, Germany), Kyriaki Kalimeri (ISI, Italy), Loreto Bravo (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile)

    • MC Parental Activity Space Across Childcare Stages

      Shusei Hayashi (Tohoku University, Japan), Takahiro Yabe (New York University, USA), Naoya Fujiwara (Tohoku University, Japan)

    • MC Invariant, elastic and plastic: how mobility reorganizes around a residential move

      Andrew Renninger (Central European University, Austria), Piero Birello (Central European University, Austria), Marton Karsai (Central European University, Austria)

    • MC Cross-Metropolitan Transferability of Behavior-based Dependency Networks

      Boyang Li (New York University, USA), Saumitra Kulkarni (Northeastern University, USA), Morgan Frank (Case Western Reserve University, USA), Esteban Moro (Northeastern University, USA), Takahiro Yabe (New York University, USA)

    • MC Do tsunami evacuation drills reproduce real evacuation response? Evidence from paired events in coastal Chile

      Kyriaki Kalimeri (ISI, Italy), Leo Ferres (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile)

    Poster Session

    Thursday, October 15th · Coffee breaks

    • DC Detecting bus delays and service anomalies in Niterói with autoencoder latent feature representations

      Matheus Germano (Federal University of Campina Grande), Claudio E. C. Campelo (Federal University of Campina Grande)

    • DC Demand-Weighted Reliability and Diagnostic Observability in Public Transport: A Multi-Source Alignment Approach

      Manuel Mendoza-Hurtado (University of Cordoba), José Manuel Cuevas-Muñoz (University of Cordoba), Domingo Ortiz-Boyer (University of Cordoba)

    • DC Counterfactual Dispatch Regularization Reduces Passenger Waiting in Urban Bus Services

      M. Mavin De Silva (Nagaoka University of Technology; The University of Tokyo), Santiago Garcia Gabilondo (The University of Tokyo), Ketian Chen (The University of Tokyo), Shusei Hayashi (Tohoku University), Jue Ma (The University of Tokyo), Yoshihide Sekimoto (The University of Tokyo)

    • DC A GPS-Based Framework to Distinguish Road-Network Congestion from Bus Operation in Niterói, Brazil

      Alexander Bousman (Washington and Lee University; DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia)

    • DC The Impact of Precipitation on Public Transportation in Niterói, Brazil

      Lucas Toshioka Tenório (University of São Paulo), Fernanda Yumi Assonuma (University of São Paulo), Pedro Henrique Campos Ribeiro (University of São Paulo), Alan Uema Tavares (University of São Paulo), Matheus Teixeira Passos Giarola (University of São Paulo)

    • DC Assessing the Effects of Precipitation on Public Transportation Demand Through Eigenvector Analysis

      Geymerson S. Ramos (Inria, INSA Lyon), Sachit Mishra (Inria, INSA Lyon), Razvan Stanica (Inria, INSA Lyon)

    • DC Spatial Analysis of Operational Discrepancies in Niterói's Municipal Bus System

      Matheus de Souza e Silva (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Marina Leite de Barros Baltar (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Luis Eduardo Santos Fortes (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; CEFET/RJ), Anderson Marden de Sousa Silva (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Cintia Machado de Oliveira (CEFET/RJ), Daniel Kim Imai (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Lucas Ribeiro Sampaio (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Bruno Peçanha Simões (COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

    Friday, October 16th

    Session 7: Data Challenge and Behavioral Dynamics

    Friday, October 16th · 08:30–10:00

    • DC Impact of provided services and socio-demographic factors on bus accessibility: a Niterói case study

      Luca Fantin (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; Motion Analytica), Chiara Pugliese (IIT-CNR), Fabio Pinelli (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), Giulio Loddi (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), Chiara Renso (ISTI-CNR), Alessandro Betti (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), Bruno Zamengo (Motion Analytica), Andrea Frasson (Motion Analytica)

    • DC Reaching the Stop, Reaching the City: Socio-Spatial Inequality in Public-Transport Access in Niterói (SDG 11.2.1)

      Kinin Koné (Agence Nationale de la Statistique – ANStat, Côte d'Ivoire), Abdoulaye Doumbia (Agence Nationale de la Statistique – ANStat, Côte d'Ivoire)

    • DC Urban Mobility and Demand Dynamics: A Telemetry and Ticketing Baseline for Niterói's Bus Network

      Evaldo Alves de Brito Júnior (Federal University of Campina Grande), Luiz Sergio Pompeu Alves Filho (Federal University of Campina Grande), Claudio E. C. Campelo (Federal University of Campina Grande)

    • DC The Predictability of Bus Bunching and Who Pays for It: Evidence from Niterói, Brazil

      Hugo Barbosa (University of Exeter), Federico Botta (University of Exeter), Zihao Chen (University of Exeter), Luiz Correia (University of Exeter), Yifan He (University of Exeter), Soroush Karimi (University of Exeter), Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter), Diogo Pacheco (University of Exeter), Yuchen Zhou (University of Exeter)

    • MC Comparing Gender-Labeled Urban Co-Visitation Networks Across U.S. Cities Using Google Places

      Jemal Jilo (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil), Myriam R. B. S. Delgado (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil), Thiago H. Silva (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil)

    • MC Leveraging mobility behavior to re-identify users

      Lucas Felix (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Vinícius da F. Vieira (Universidade Federal de São João del rei, Brazil), Anne J. Kouam (INRIA Saclay, France), Alexandre G. Evsukoff (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil), Aline Carneiro Viana (INRIA Saclay, France), Nadjib Achir (INRIA Saclay, France), Jussara Almeida (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

    Keynote 3

    Friday, October 16th, 10:30–11:30

    Accessibility and mobility data: two halves of a policy story

    Rafael H. M. PereiraRafael H. M. Pereira

    Head of Data Science at the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and visiting professor at the University of Toronto.

    Session 8: AI and Privacy

    Friday, October 16th · 11:30–12:45

    • MC Large Language Models Create an Uneven Informational Layer over Cities

      Lin Chen (Northeastern University, USA), Guangyuan Weng (Northeastern University, USA), Esteban Moro (Northeastern University, USA)

    • MC Do LLM Agents Reproduce Human Mobility Laws?

      Gustavo H. B. dos Santos (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil), Aline Carneiro Viana (Inria Saclay, France), Thiago H. Silva (Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil)

    • MC Predictability of Urban Park Visitation Behavior Using Context-Aware Fine-Tuned LLM Agents

      DongHak Lee (New York University, USA), Xiyu Pan (New York University, USA), Yixuan Hong (New York University, USA), Takahiro Yabe (New York University, USA)

    • MC Some Users Are Easier to Re-identify: Evidence from Mobility Profiles and Embedding Geometry

      Tiziano Martin Bernal (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Anne J. Kouam (INRIA Saclay, France), Mariano Beiró (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)