Hello! I’m Jared. I’m a second-year PhD student at the UW Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering. I am a part of the Makeability Lab, advised by Jon Froehlich, working to make cities more sustainable and accessible.
My research interests are in urban informatics and urban data understanding, powered by AI and computer vision. Specifically:
- 📝 Tools for managing raw, multimodal data
- How can we bridge the gap between collecting multimodal data and using it in downstream applications?
- 💡 Using AI to extract insight
- How can AI extract insight out of unstructured and multi-dimensional data?
- How can we make context aware, personalized systems for urban exploration?
- 🚞 Building better cities
- How can we extract insight about our cities and how humans live?
- How can we present this insight to policymakers and individuals intuitively?
- How can this insight ultimately guide us in designing better cities?
Check out my Research and CV to see how my interests got to where they are now. Or, if you want to chat with me about my research, cities, the PhD program, or anything else, reach out to me at my email!
Recent news
[04/26] Our paper on generating personalized bike routes (BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery), was accepted to CHI’26! I will be presenting this in Barcelona!
[05/2025] Our paper, “‘Where Can I Park?’ Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery” was accepted to ASSETS ‘25. I will be presenting this work in person in Denver!
[09/2024] I start my PhD at UW!
[12/2023] Our paper was accepted to NeuRIPS 2023! Check it out here
Page updated April 2026.