Shenhao Wang is an assistant professor and the director of the Urban Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Florida, and a research affiliate to Urban Mobility Lab and Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He seeks to develop fundamental theory for urban science using artificial intelligence with three specific research themes. The first research theme is deep choice theory, which analyzes individual decision-making by integrating discrete choice models and deep learning with applications to individual behavioral analysis in urban mobility. His second research theme is to analyze the collective mobility networks by integrating classical network theory and graph neural networks to quantify risk and uncertainty, thus promoting resilient economic growth. His third research theme focuses on ethical urban AI, which seeks to enhance the transparency, accountability, and fairness of the urban machine intelligence for broad social impacts. His research has been funded by Department of Energy (DOE), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), and urban mobility companies. Dr. Wang completed his interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Computer and Urban Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020. He received B.A. in Economics from Peking University (2014) and B.A. in architecture and law from Tsinghua University (2011), Master of Science in Transportation, and Master of City Planning from MIT (2017).
Measuring Representational and Allocational Harms in LLM Career Recommendations
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Venue:
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Talent and Management Computing
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Digital Distortions: Auditing Bias in LLM-based Career Recommendations
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Venue:
IEEE Intelligent Systems
2026
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Journal
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Qishen Zhou (ZJU), Shenhao Wang (UF), Frank Pasquale (Cornell), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
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Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Heye Huang (SMART), Can Rong (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 151
2026
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Donghang Li (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Building and Environment 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Mingyi He (MIT), Yuebing Lian (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Qingyi Wang (MIT), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), Li Tian (Tsinghua University), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Leveraging the Spatial Hierarchy: Coarse-to-fine Trajectory Generation via Cascaded Hybrid Diffusion
Year of Publication:
Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Baoshen Guo (SMART), Zhiqing Hong (HKUST), Junyi Li (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Elsevier
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xiaowei Gao (UCL), Xinke Jiang (PKU), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), James Haworth (UCL), Shenhao Wang (UF), Ilya Ilyankou (UCL), Huanfa Chen (UCL)
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Venue:
Elsevier
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Meilin Yang (UMICH), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Xiaotong Guo (MIT) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xinyu Chen (MIT), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), HanQin Cai (University of Central Florida), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-25)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), Chonghe Jiang (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Nature Cities
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Lun Liu (PKU), Jim Aloisi (MIT) & Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (Elsevier)
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Shenhao Wang (UF), Baichuan Mo (MIT), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Stephane Hess (Leeds), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Nature Communications
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Yunhan Zheng (SMART), David Keith(University of Melbourne) Shenhao Wang (UF), Mi Diao (Tongji), and Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Nature Cities
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Shenhao Wang (UF), Yunhan Zheng (SMART), Guang Wang (MIT), Takahiro Yabe (MIT), Esteban Moro (MIT), Alex "Sandy" Pentland (MIT)
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