School of Computer and Communication Sciences

With: Professor Nikhil Kaza is currently Host professor at the EPFL Habitat Research Center. He is Associate Professor at the Department of City & Regional Planning and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US).  Professor Kaza works at the intersection of urbanization patterns, local energy policy, and equity. In his research, he seeks to understand the motivations, intentions and plans of multiple actors endowed with limited capabilities, imperfect foresight and distributed authority, in urban settings. Lately, he has been studying these issues in the context of local energy planning. He routinely uses high cadence, large geospatial and temporal datasets and novel quantitative methods in my research. He is also a planning theorist, specializing in organizational decision-making, institutional restructuring and the role of plans. In addition to his faculty appointments in the City & Regional Planning and Environment, Ecology and Energy program at UNC, he is a faculty research fellow at Center for Community Capital and faculty fellow at the Institute for the Enviroment and Center for Urban and Regional Studies. Homepage: https://sia.planning.unc.edu
Place and room: GC C2 413
Category: Conferences - Seminars