Dr. Takahiro Yabe is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress and Department of Technology Management and Innovation at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Media Lab working with Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and Esteban Moro. Taka’s research develops data-driven methods to understand collective social dynamics during disruptions and to model the resilience of complex urban systems to natural hazards, pandemics, and mobility technology. His recent works have been published in journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Machine Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University and his Master's and Bachelor's Degrees from the University of Tokyo.