2025 SUMMER - MIT-UF-NU 2025 Joint Summer Research Camp:

OPEN FOR APPLICATION NOW!

Program Description:

MIT-UF-NU 2025 joint summer research camp is organized by Prof. Jinhua Zhao from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, Prof. Shenhao Wang from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, and Prof. Haris Koutsopoulos from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. The program aims to provide research mentorship and real research projects for the students who are passionate about learning and developing research skills in computing science, transportation, and urban planning fields. The research camp will primarily be held online and will last for three months.

** Please note that the summer research camp is completely free of charge, and we have not authorized any third-party person or agency for promotion or collaboration. If you have any questions, please contact our team directly!

Program Team:

PI Team: Professor Jinhua Zhao, Professor Shenhao Wang, Professor Haris Koutsopoulos

Postdoc/PhD Team: Dr. Yunhan Zheng, Dr. Awad Abdelhalim, Dr. Xinyu Chen, Dr. Xinyi Wang, Dr. Yuebing Liang, Dingyi Zhuang, Hanyong Xu, Michael Leong, Ao Qu, Dr. Zhanhong Cheng, Dr. Yuzhou Chen, Dr. Xiaotong Guo, Dr. Xuan Jiang

Target Student (~ 10-15 students this summer)

• Students who will apply for PhDs and/or masters in 2025 fall and expect to enroll in PhD and/or Master programs in 2026 spring/fall. Qualified students are expected to be equipped with following background (type 1 or type 2).

• Background (type 1): major in urban planning, urban management, GIS, landscape, human geography, or architecture, but also with background and strong interests in machine learning, statistics, and other advanced technical background.

• Background (type 2): major in transportation, civil engineering, computer science, or other engineering fields, but with strong interests in smart city applications.

Anticipated Tasks:

• [Conduct research] After being matched with a doctoral student, the student should complete the research project designed by the doctoral student. Think about the research project in your own way and have some extensions.

• [Paper writing and publication] The student should collaborate with the doctoral student to complete a research paper based on the research project, submit it to a journal, and eventually publish it. This task is not limited to the summer of 2025 and should continue until the paper is published.

• [Project presentation] The student should present the results at the end of the summer research project (early September).

Application Portal:

For students who are interesting into this program, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhqFgwqSMdc3_hM8Klti_kTwobINYoYwvFH7up18jwG47eTg/viewform?usp=dialog

Timeline:

• Application: Now to April 18th, 2025.

• Acceptance/Interview: late April to late May, 2025.

• Program kick-off meeting: late May or early June, 2025.

• Research period: early June to early September, 2025.

• Final project presentation: early September, 2025.

Point of Contact

If you have any questions about the program and application, feel free to reach out to Dingyi Zhuang: dingyi@mit.edu

** EXCITING NEWS!! THREE STUDENTS FROM THE 2023 MIT-UF-NU SUMMER RESEARCH CAMP HAVE BEEN ADMITTED TO MIT! 🎉

** ALL STUDENTS FROM THE 2023 SUMMER RESEARCH CAMP RECEIVED OFFERS FROM WORLD TOP-TIER UNIVERSITIES! ✨

Congratulations to the three students from last year’s MIT-UF-NU Joint Summer Research Program, who will be starting their next academic journey and advancing their research at MIT this fall!!! Our 2023 summer research students have achieved remarkable success thanks to the dedication and support of three outstanding mentors and experienced MIT PhD students. After a summer of intensive research and a year of continued effort, they have not only made significant contributions to research collaborations with labs at MIT, NEU, and UF, but have also secured offers from some of the world’s most prestigious graduate programs.

Below is a partial list of the offers received by our 2023 Summer Research Camp students:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): 3

• University of Michigan (UMich): 4

• University College London (UCL): 2

• Northwestern University: 2

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): 2

• University of Pennsylvania (UPenn): 1

• Cornell University: 1

• University of Washington (UW): 1

• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU): 1

• University of Florida (UF): 1

• University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin): 1

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC): 1

• National University of Singapore (NUS): 1

• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE): 1

🎉 Our mentors and PhD student advisors want to share this message with future applicants: “Seize opportunity - hard work and persistence will pay off!” Once again, congratulations to all our summer research camp students for securing offers from top-tier universities! We can’t wait to see you on campus!

—— [Message updated April 2024]

PAST PH.D. OPPORTUNITY

2024 Summer - MIT-UF-NU 2025 Joint Summer Research Camp - COMPLETE

Program Description:

MIT-UF-NU 2024 joint summer research camp is organized by Prof. Jinhua Zhao from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, Prof. Shenhao Wang from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, and Prof. Haris Koutsopoulos from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. The program targets to recruit students who have the ambition on conducting research in transportation and urban planning. The research camp will primarily take place remotely, and the length of the program is three months.

Program Team:

PI Team: Professor Jinhua Zhao, Professor Shenhao Wang, Professor Haris Koutsopoulos

Postdoc/PhD Team: Yunhan Zheng, Xinyu Chen, Xinyi Wang, Dingyi Zhuang, Yuebing Liang, Joseph Rodriguez, John Moody

Target Student: (~ 10-15 students this summer)

Students who will apply for PhDs (and masters) in the upcoming 2024 fall semester.

Background (type 1): major in urban planning, urban management, GIS, landscape, human geography, or architecture, but also with background and strong interests in machine learning or statistics.

Background (type 2): major in transportation, civil engineering, computer science, or other engineering fields, but with strong interests in smart city applications.

Anticipated Task:

[Conduct research] After being matched with a doctoral student, the student should complete the research project designed by the doctoral student. Think about the research project in your own way and have some extensions.

[Paper writing and publication] The student should collaborate with the doctoral student to complete a research paper based on the research project, submit it to a journal, and eventually publish it. This task is not limited to the summer of 2024 and should continue until the paper is published.

[Project presentation] The student should present the results at the end of the summer research project (early September).

Timeline:

Application period: now to April 15th

Applicants notification: late April

Program kick-off meeting: late May or early June

Research period: early June to early September

Final project presentation: early September

2023 Summer - MIT-UF-NU 2025 Joint Summer Research Camp - COMPLETE

Program Description:

MIT-UF-NU 2023 joint summer research camp is organized by Prof. Jinhua Zhao from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, Prof. Shenhao Wang from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, and Prof. Haris Koutsopoulos from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. The program targets to recruit students who have the ambition on conducting research in transportation and urban planning. The research camp will primarily take place remotely, and the length of the program is three months.

Program Team:

PI Team: Professor Jinhua Zhao, Professor Shenhao Wang, Professor Haris Koutsopoulos

Postdoc/PhD Team: Yunhan Zheng, Dingyi Zhuang, Xiaotong Guo, Joseph Rodriguez, John Moody

Target Student: (~ 10-15 students this summer)

Students who will apply for PhDs (and masters) in the upcoming 2024 fall semester.

Background (type 1): major in urban planning, urban management, GIS, landscape, human geography, or architecture, but also with background and strong interests in machine learning or statistics.

Background (type 2): major in transportation, civil engineering, computer science, or other engineering fields, but with strong interests in smart city applications.

Anticipated Task:

[Conduct research] After being matched with a doctoral student, the student should complete the research project designed by the doctoral student. Think about the research project in your own way and have some extensions.

[Paper writing and publication] The student should collaborate with the doctoral student to complete a research paper based on the research project, submit it to a journal, and eventually publish it. This task is not limited to the summer of 2024 and should continue until the paper is published.

[Project presentation] The student should present the results at the end of the summer research project (early September).

Timeline:

Application period: now to April 15th

Applicants notification: late April

Program kick-off meeting: late May or early June

Research period: early June to early September

Final project presentation: early September