Lin Chen
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Lin Chen

Google Scholar ID: uxaP8ZcAAAAJ
Northeastern University
Urban MobilityUrban ScienceComputational Social ScienceSocial ComputingLLM Agent
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - 2025: Federation of Hong Kong Chiu Chow Community Organizations Fellowship
  • - 2024: KDD Student Travel Award
  • - 2024: HKUST Conference Travel Grant
  • - 2023: Rising Stars Women in Engineering, Asian Deans’ Forum
  • - 2023: ICWSM Student Travel Grant
  • - 2022: HKUST Overseas Research Award
  • - 2020-2024: Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS)
  • - 2020: Shanghai Outstanding Bachelor Graduate
  • - 2019: China National Scholarship
  • - 2018: China National Scholarship
  • - 2017: China National Scholarship
Research Experience
  • - Oct 2025: Invited talk at the Network Science Institute, Boston
  • - Sep 2025: Started postdoctoral journey at SUNLab, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
  • - Sep 2025: Keynote at CCS UrbanSys, Siena, Italy
  • - Jun 2025: Preprint: AI Agent Behavioral Science
  • - Apr 2025: Defended PhD thesis at CSE, HKUST
  • - Feb 2025: Preprint: Invisible Walls in Cities: Leveraging Large Language Models to Predict Urban Segregation Experience with Social Media Content
  • - Aug 2024: Published Large Language Model-driven Meta-structure Discovery in Heterogeneous Information Network in KDD’24
  • - Aug 2024: Published VulnerabilityMap: An Open Framework for Mapping Vulnerability among Urban Disadvantaged Populations in the United States in IJCAI’24
  • - Jan 2024: Published Counterfactual mobility network embedding reveals prevalent accessibility gaps in U.S. cities in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • - Dec 2023: Published How enlightened self-interest guided global vaccine sharing benefits all: a modeling study in Journal of Global Health
  • - Nov 2023: Selected to attend the Asian Deans’ Forum 2023 - The Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop at UTokyo
  • - Jun 2023: Published Getting Back on Track: Understanding COVID-19 Impact on Urban Mobility and Segregation with Location Service Data in ICWSM’23
  • - Aug 2022: Published Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity in Nature Human Behaviour
Education
  • - Postdoctoral Researcher at SUNLab, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Esteban Moro
  • - PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), HKPFS awardee, advised by Prof. Pan Hui
  • - Visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yong Li
  • - Visiting Researcher at Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago, advised by Prof. James Evans
Background
  • - Research Interests: data science, urban science, computational social science, graph neural networks
  • - Current Focus: human mobility networks, urban inequality, segregation, and urban resilience
  • - Actively exploring the potential of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in understanding social networks and urban phenomena
Miscellany
  • - Personal Interests: Administrator for 大模型智能体 (a WeChat public account sharing up-to-date LLM agent research)
  • - Languages: Chinese (Native, both Putonghua & Teochew), English (Proficient), Korean (Beginner)
Co-authors
9 total
Yong Li
Yong Li
Professor, Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
Fengli Xu
Fengli Xu
Tsinghua University
Pan Hui
Pan Hui
Chair Professor, Nokia Chair in Data Science, FREng & IEEE Fellow (HKUST & University of Helsinki)
Qianyue Hao
Qianyue Hao
PhD Student, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
James Evans
James Evans
Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology & Data Science, University of Chicago
Zhenyu Han
Zhenyu Han
Ph.D, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
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Co-author 7
Esteban Moro
Esteban Moro
Professor of Physics & Network Science Institute, Northeastern University