Past Event

About the Speaker

Dr Xiaowen Dong

Xiaowen Dong is a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and a Faculty Member of the Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford. He is primarily interested in developing novel techniques that lie at the intersection of machine learning, signal processing, and game theory in the context of networks, and applying them to study questions across social and economic sciences, with a particular focus on understanding human behaviour, decision making and societal changes.

Abstract

Urban income segregation is a widespread phenomenon that challenges societies across the globe. Classical studies on segregation have largely focused on the geographic distribution of residential neighbourhoods rather than on patterns of social behaviours and interactions. In this talk, I will present some of our recent work on understanding segregation in economic and social interactions using large-scale behaviour data, e.g., credit card transactions, Twitter mentions, and mobility records, in several culturally different metropolitan areas. Our results provide novel insights into the understanding of behavioural segregation in human interactions in urban environment with socio-political and economic implications.

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