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From June 30 – July 4, 2025, I attended the 16th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2025) in Kyoto, Japan. I also presented my research paper titled “Choice Sets and Smart Card Data in Public Transport Route Choice Models: Generated vs. Empirical Sets”. This study was conducted in collaboration with Filipe Rodrigues, Ravi…

On September 18th, 2024, I had the opportunity to present my on-going research work at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe). Hosted by Assistant Professor Melvin Wong, the seminar focused on my work with generative latent class choice models, specifically using Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). Below are the title and abstract on my talk at TUe. Title:…

A new paper from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project Econ-ML has been published in Transportation journal. The paper is titled: “Analyzing the reporting error of public transport trips in the Danish national travel survey using smart card data” and co-authored with Filipe Rodrigues, Maya Abou-Zeid, and Francisco Camara Pereira. This blog post provides an overview of…

Next stop: Vienna! From July 14-18, 2024, I attended the 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (IATBR), where I presented my latest research paper titled: “Identifying choice sets for public transport route choice models using smart-card data: generated vs. empirical sets”. This work was co-authored with Filipe Rodrigues, Ravi Seshadri, Izgi Tulunay, and Carlos…

Ever since the 2024 International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC) was announced back in 2022, with Chile as the host, I knew I had to go. Who could resist a trip to Chile? Two years later, that decision paid off as I found myself in Puerto Varas, ready to present my second research paper titled: “Generative…

In February 2024, I had the opportunity to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a visiting Postdoctoral Researcher. I became part of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) lab within the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering department, led by the Edmund K. Turner Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva. This experience was both professionally enriching and personally…

Right after the Christmas holiday, I flew to Washington D.C. for the 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting held from January 7-11, 2024. This conference marked a significant milestone in my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, as I presented the first results of my research through a paper titled: “Analyzing the reporting error of public…