Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist
Groups
  • City Science

Luis Alonso is a research scientist in the City Science group and Principal Investigator of the Andorra Living Lab Project. He has a PhD in architecture and coordinates the Andorra Living Lab project. He oversees the integration of the group's diverse research topics (energy consumption, city simulation, urban mobility, innovation district, and smart housing) in City Science Network of Collaborative Cities, to provide comprehensive solutions for urban and country challenges, in order to transform cities into more diverse and vibrant "human scale ecosystems."

Since he is focused on very different lines of research and work, his antidisciplinary approach fits on the Media Lab philosophy: City Science, urban indicators, big data analysis, urban planning, architectural robotics, building design and construction, new and smart materials (free-form transparent energy efficient envelopes and biomedical uses), energy simulation and building efficiency and sustainability, eco-innovation, e-learning and its impact on social networks, new technologies, IoT, etc. 

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Somos Centinelas - We are Sentinels

Somos centinelas: hacia una educación sin barreras de accesoWe are Sentinels: Towards an education without access barriersLa Univ…
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Brigada forestal FEMAF - FEMAF's Forest Firefighters

Protegiendo el bosque del CentinelaPromover y brindar las herramientas necesarias en el comportamiento del fuego y en el manejo de incident…
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Urban Safety Perception Metrics in Conflict-Sensitive Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Lomas del Centinela, Guadalajara (México)

Humanitarian Mapping. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 23-27, 2020
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Keyhole. Huertos Comunitarios - Community Gardens - Lomas del Centinela

Huertos Comunitarios Keyhole en Lomas del Centinela Keyhole Community Gardens in Lomas del Centinela
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City Robotics Member Workshop

Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…
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CityScope Champs-Élysées

An interactive  platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ta…
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ChampScope

Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.
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MAS.552 City Science: Settlements Without (Guadalajara, Mexico), Spring Term 2020

Instructors:Kent LarsonLuis AlonsoGuest critics:Norman Foster The Norman Foster FoundationCourse description:By 2050, 3.5 billion peop…
MAS.552 · with Kent Larson, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor
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MAS.552 Settlements Without Course, Fall Term 2019

Instructors:Norman FosterKent Larson Course Description:By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Of that 70%, …
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2019 MIT Startup Showcase: Keynote Speakers

Hae Won Park, PhD, is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab and a principal investigator of the Social Robot Companions Program. H…
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City Science Lab Guadalajara in the news

Below is a selection of  press coverage of the collaboration between the MIT Media Lab City Science group at the University of Guadala…
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Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data

Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A. and Larson, K., 2019. Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), pp.1480-1498.
Article, Sept. 2019
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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Safe Cities: Urban Mobility and Security Perception via Agent-Based Modeling

Walking as the most natural form of urban mobility plays a crucial role in shaping the quality of daily life. However, safety concerns ofte…
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With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
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Lomas del Centinela - understanding a community in Mexico

Lomas del Centinela is a growing community on a hilltop in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. It borders the Bosque del Centinela, an important …
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CIUDADES INTELIGENTES: TECNOLOGÍAS Y NARRATIVAS PARA CREAR CIUDADES SOSTENIBLES

INTELLIGENT CITIES: TECHNOLOGIES AND NARRATIVES TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE CITIES
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Tourism Mapping Workshop

With more than eight million visitors a year, tourism represents almost 46% of the economy of Andorra. By gathering and analyzing multiple …
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CITIES WITHOUT

This City Science Summit explores a future WITHOUT top-down and increasingly obsolete heavy infrastructure.
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Lima: What is the road that must be followed for the development of an intelligent city?

Gestión and Universidad del Pacífico (UP) organized a round table on the concept of smart cities.
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Accessibility Objective: that 'smart cities' do not create more barriers for people with disabilities

By M. Victoria S. Nadal "There is a set of population for which smart cities can make a fundamental difference: people with disabilities."
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City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…
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City Science Lab @ Shanghai

Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …
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Theme | Changing Places

Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for understanding and creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces t…
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CityScience Lyon WorkShop: At the school of the Anthropocene

By mobilizing the Open Data data of the Lyon Metropolis and the devices developed by its Living Lab, developed a tangible city simulator.
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City Science Summit Shanghai 2018 上海城市科学峰会

A one-day event focused on global service innovations
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Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…
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DATA MINING TOURISM PATTERNS

Nai Chun Chen, Jenny Xie, Phil Tinn, Luis Alonso, Takehiko Nagakura and Kent Larson
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Norman Foster Foundation Workshop 2018—On Cities

Autonomous Innovation Communities
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Establishment of a novel in vitro model of stratified epithelial wound healing with barrier function

Gonzalez-Andrades M., Alonso-Pastor L., Mauris J., Cruzat A., Dohlman C.H., Argüeso P. “Establishment of a novel in vitro model of stratified epithelial wound healing with barrier function” Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 19395 (2016 Jan 13)
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The Impact of New Mobility Modes on a City: A Generic Approach Using ABM

Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Taillandier, P., Gaudou, B., Nguyen-Huu, T., Gruel, W., & Larson, K. (2018, July). The Impact of New Mobility Modes on a City: A Generic Approach Using ABM. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 272-280). Springer, Cham.
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Game IT Workshop 1.0

Lyon hosted the first MIT Media Lab City Science Game IT Workshop to study the use of digital tools for the simulation of urban environment…
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Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian network approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal lives …
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UrbInt 2017. Workshop in Urban engineering. Tijuana

UrbInt 2017The theme of this workshop is framed in what is called Urban Intelligence, where new ways of understanding the complex dynamics …
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Smart City Expo World Congress 2017. Andorra Pavilion

Events at the Andorra PavilionTuesday 11/1411:30 - 13:00 - Inauguration of the Andorra Pavilion15:00 - 15:30 - Apiumtech15:30 - 16:00 - FED…
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Amoeba Wall: A context-aware wall system

Amoeba Wall: A context aware wall system: Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors…
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Amoetecture

Amoeba Wall: a context aware wall system. Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors, cei…
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Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources o…
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City Science Exploratory Workshop Guadalajara

UdeG and the MIT Media Lab City Science group will run an educational outreach workshop to understand data-driven decision-making applicati…
Tuesday — Thursday
December 4, 2018 —
December 6, 2018
10:00am — 5:00pm ET
Guadalajara
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City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
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Beyond Smart Cities—online short course

This online professional short course offers people around the globe an opportunity to learn from Kent Larson and the City Science team as …
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Professional Education: Beyond Smart Cities

This course focuses on data analytics, new urban systems, real-time simulation, and urban design strategies that can enable more entreprene…
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HafenCity Workshop

Researchers from the City Science group conducted a workshop at HafenCity University's City Science Lab in Hamburg, Germany.
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Mobility and Innovation Capacity Workshop - with Aalto University

Team members from Aalto University visited the Media Lab’s City Science group to discuss ongoing collaborations and new projects.
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City Science Lab @ Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…
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Innovation Challenge Andorra kicks off with City Science workshop

In January 2019, members of the City Science team traveled to Andorra to further explore Andorra’s innovation opportunity to improve urban …
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City Science Workshop - Guadalajara - Equity and Security

In this workshop, entrepreneurs, stakeholders, community members, professors and students met to discuss safety, security and equity in Gua…
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Top Ten Andorra Workshop Quotes

Highlights from the Andorra workshop
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.
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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
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CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization

Arnaud Grignard, Núria Macià, Luis Alonso Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yan Zhang, and Kent Larson. 2018. CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1939-1940.
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CityScope Cooper Hewitt

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…
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CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The sit…
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Andorra Living Lab

The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban p…
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Andorra | Tourism

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.With more than eight million visitors a year, tourism represents almost 30% of the econo…
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Andorra | Energy + Environment
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Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
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Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…
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Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata

Y. Leng, A. Noriega, A.S. Pentland, I. Winder, N. Lutz, L. Alonso: "Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.