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     Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

                    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Date: Friday, October 23, 2026, 4:30pm to 5:30pm HKT

Venue: ERB 909, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title:  Urban segregation: Going beyond residential neighbourhoods

Speaker: Prof. Xiaowen Dong, University of Oxford

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. In this talk, I will present some of our recent work on understanding segregation from a behavioural perspective, that is, segregation measured based on patterns of individual behaviours and social interactions. These results provide novel insights into a new form of urban segregation with socioeconomic implications.

Biography:

Xiaowen Dong is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Machine Learning Research Group. Prior to joining Oxford, he was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab, and received his PhD degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His main research interests concern signal processing and machine learning techniques for analysing data with complex structures, and their applications in social, urban, and financial network analysis.

Everyone is welcome to attend the talk!

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