About

Ravi Bapna is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor in Business Analytics and Information Systems and serves as the Academic Director of the Carlson Analytics Lab at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He is closely affiliated with the Carlson School's MS in Business Analytics program and the Carlson Analytics Lab, where graduate students study a broad range of data analysis techniques and apply them to real business problems. These students are skilled in exploratory data visualization, predictive analytics techniques, programming, data engineering, machine learning methods, and more, emerging as data science professionals. Partner organizations have the opportunity to work with these talented students while supporting the educational mission of the programs.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Transport engineering
• Simulation
• Geography
• Human–computer interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engineering
• World Wide Web
• Data science
• Psychology
• Medicine
• Mathematics
• Applied psychology
• Economics
• Meteorology
• Ecology
• Environmental economics
• Microeconomics
• Environmental science
• Business
• Natural resource economics

Selected publications

• Market incentives, carbon quota allocation and carbon emission reduction: Evidence from China's carbon trading pilot policy

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2022 · 369 citations

  • Political Science
  • Natural resource economics
  • Environmental economics

  As a major carbon dioxide-emitting country, China set carbon trading market to reduce enterprise carbon emissions through the rational allocation of carbon quotas among different enterprises and regions. The market has also conducted a preliminary exploration for the country to achieve carbon dioxide emissions peak in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060 while actively addressing the challenges of global climate change. This study analysed the emission reduction effect of China's carbon trading pilot policy, especially the role of carbon quota and carbon trading price. The analysis used county-level panel data from 1997 to 2017, regarded the implementation of the carbon trading pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment, and used the difference-in-differences method. The results showed that, first, the policy implementation not only reduced regional carbon emissions but also inhibited carbon dioxide emissions per capita, with long-term effects. Second, the carbon emission reduction effect brought by the carbon pilot policy showed significant heterogeneous results with the different degrees of regional carbon emissions and environmental supervision. The effect was greater in areas with higher carbon emission density and stronger legal supervision. Third, the difference in carbon quota allocations resulted in different emission reduction effects, among which the historical method had the strongest effect. The carbon quota price and number of enterprises participating carbon trading market were the key factors affecting carbon emission reduction.

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• An agent-based simulator for indoor crowd evacuation considering fire impacts

  Automation in Construction · 2020 · 80 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Simulation
  • Computer Science
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• Virtual and augmented reality technologies for emergency management in the built environments: A state-of-the-art review

  Journal of Safety Science and Resilience · 2020 · 165 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • Data science

  With the rapid technological advancements in recent decades, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have been increasingly adopted to address various challenges in emergency management in the built environments. This paper presents a review of state-of-the-art applications in this rapidly evolving area. A total of 84 relevant articles are identified based on searching in the Web of Science Core Collection and snowballing. These papers are then organized based on a taxonomy developed in this study. Next, a range of VR/AR applications presented in these papers that are aimed to enhance various processes associated with pre-emergency preparedness, responses during emergency and post-emergency recovery are reviewed in detail. The existing VR/AR applications are also described from a human-computer interaction perspective. Finally, current research trends, knowledge gaps and directions for future research are discussed. The findings presented in this paper are expected to provide a synthetic and critical review of state-of-the-art VR/AR applications for emergency management in the built environment and facilitate further advancements in both research and practice in this area.

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• Do people follow the crowd in building emergency evacuation? A cross-cultural immersive virtual reality-based study

  Advanced Engineering Informatics · 2020 · 182 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
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Frequent coauthors

• Burçin Becerik-Gerber

  41 shared

• Lúcio Soibelman

  University of Southern California

  26 shared

• Dongping Fang

  Tsinghua University

  26 shared

• Jing Lin

  25 shared

• Fang Wei

  Criminal Investigation Police University of China

  20 shared

• Eyüphan Koç

  Taiyuan University of Technology

  20 shared

• S. Thomas Ng

  17 shared

• Pengfei Du

  16 shared

Education

• B.S. in Civil Engineering, Department of Construction Mangement

  Tsinghua University

  2009

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