Previously held academic positions at Nottingham Trent University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Recently undertook research leave at EPFL and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), with ongoing academic visits.
Principal investigator of the EU-Japan EIG project SO-SMART, co-designing a social-based computing infrastructure for smart transportation in Okinawa.
Affiliated as a research fellow with OIST’s Machine Learning and Data Science Unit, UrbanDataLab at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute, Department of Geography at Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Institute of Geographic Sciences at Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Former Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and visiting researcher at Laval University, Shanghai Maritime University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, K.N. Toosi University (Iran), and Hyogo University (Japan).