Koichi Ito
PhD Student in Urban Analytics at the National University of Singapore
National University of Singapore
Biography
Koichi Ito is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore and has work experience as a consultant at the World Bank Group by leveraging programming skills, interested in researching human mobility with emerging spatial data sources, such as street-view imagery, and machine/deep learning techniques.
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Interests
- Urban analytics
- Spatial analysis
- Human mobility
Education
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PhD, 2022-
National University of Singapore
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Master of Urban Planning, 2019-2021
National University of Singapore
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BA in Liberal Arts, 2015-2019
Soka University of America
Skills
GIS
100%
R
100%
Python
90%
Statistics
80%
SQL
70%
Azure & AWS
50%
Experience
- Examined the impacts of conflicts on socio-economic indicators in the Central African Republic
- Built Shiny dashboard apps to facilitate analysis of project target indicators in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Romania
- Designed a training on GIS and R for government officials in Tanzania
Research Assistant
Data Analytics Intern
- Built a data pipeline of PM2.5 data, weather data, and traffic data in Singapore on Azure Synapse with a real-time dashboard on Power BI
- Programed a real-time time-series model with LightGBM in Python on Azure Synapse
Urban Development Research Intern
- Collected and wrangled a comprehensive data set of more than 4,000 Tokyo-based startups’ numerous information, such as addresses, investors, and accelerators in Python (The report is available here.)
- Visualized financial performance of light rail transport system in Toyama prefecture between 2002 and 2019 (The report is available here.)
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
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(2023).
Assessing the Equity and Evolution of Urban Visual Perceptual Quality with Time Series Street View Imagery.
Cities (145).
(2021).
Assessing bikeability with street view imagery and computer vision.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (132).
(2021).
Street view imagery in urban analytics and GIS: A review.
Landscape and Urban Planning (215).
Contact
(I prefer email or twitter DM)
- koichi19960406@gmail.com
- SDE4, College of Design and Engineering, 8 Architecture Dr, Singapore, 117356
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