Andres Sevtsuk is Head of the City Design and Development Group and an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Urban Science and Planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, where he also leads the City Form Lab. His research focuses on the influence of urban form on sustainable travel behavior and on public qualities of built environments--urban ground floors, main streets, and amenity location patterns. His work contributes to making city environments more walkable, sustainable and equitable, bridging the fields of urban design, spatial analytics and mobility research. Andres is the author of the Urban Network Analysis framework and software tools, used by researchers and practitioners around the world to model pedestrian activity in cities and to study coordinated land use and transportation development in ways that reduce transportation carbon emissions. He has published a book entitled “Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks” with Penn Press and before that, "Urban Network Analysis: Tools for Modeling Walking and Biking in Cities" with Tianjin University Press. Andres has collaborated with a number of city governments, international organizations, planning practices and developers on urban designs, plans and policies in both developed and rapidly developing urban environments, including those in US, Indonesia, Australia, Lebanon, Estonia and Singapore. He has led various international research projects, published in planning, transportation and urban design journals, and received numerous awards for his work.

His classes at MIT include 11.001 Introduction to Urban Design and Development, 11.324/11.024 Modeling Pedestrian Activity in Cities, as well as urban design workshops and studios.

Before joining MIT, Andres was an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds a PhD from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and an SMArchs in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT.

Rounaq Basu is an Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech, with an affiliation to the Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Science and Planning from MIT, as well as dual master’s degrees in Transportation and City Planning, and a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay with a focus on transportation engineering.

Rounaq’s research centers on sustainable urban mobility, with a particular focus on reducing auto-dependence in metropolitan areas. His work integrates urban analytics, econometrics, and agent-based microsimulations to inform policies that promote transportation equity, sustainable growth, and better urban systems. He is passionate about using these diverse tools to create more resilient and equitable cities that support the well-being of all residents.

Before joining Georgia Tech, Rounaq worked at the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization, where he led multimodal planning efforts to improve transportation modes and services across the region. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of WalkMassachusetts, the first pedestrian advocacy organization in the U.S. He has also worked internationally with organizations like the World Bank, contributing to urban planning projects in cities across Latin America, India, Lebanon, and Singapore.

Rounaq brings a global perspective to his work, combining technical expertise with a deep commitment to addressing the real-world challenges of urban growth, equity, and sustainability.