Siqi Zheng
· STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; Faculty Director, MIT Center for Real Estate; Faculty Director, MIT Sustainable Urbanization LabMassachusetts Institute of Technology · Real Estate
Active 2001–2026
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About
Dr. Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She established MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in 2019 and is the current faculty director.
Research topics
- Geography
- Transport engineering
- Engineering
- Virology
- Internal medicine
- Environmental protection
- Biology
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental science
- Business
Selected publications
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nature Human Behaviour · 2022 · 133 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingThe COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented burdens on people's physical health and subjective well-being. While countries worldwide have developed platforms to track the evolution of COVID-19 infections and deaths, frequent global measurements of affective states to gauge the emotional impacts of pandemic and related policy interventions remain scarce. Using 654 million geotagged social media posts in over 100 countries, covering 74% of world population, coupled with state-of-the-art natura…
Cities · 2020 · 109 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingDoes high-speed railway reduce air pollution along highways? —— Evidence from China
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2020 · 97 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingStakeholders’ perceptions of and willingness to pay for circular economy in the construction sector
npj Urban Sustainability · 2024-10-24 · 8 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorAdopting Circular Economy practices in the construction industry can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, many barriers exist to adoption, and current perceptions of and willingness to pay for circularity have yet to be quantified. This study seeks to understand the various perceptions of circularity in the construction industry, characterize uncertainties and risks, and identify economic incentives and opportunities that could accelerate circular adoption via an industry survey of thr…
OmniFlatten: An End-to-end GPT Model for Seamless Voice Conversation
2025-01-01 · 7 citations
articleOpen accessQinglin Zhang, Luyao Cheng, Chong Deng, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Siqi Zheng, Jiaqing Liu, Hai Yu, Chao-Hong Tan, Zhihao Du, ShiLiang Zhang. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.
Frequent coauthors
- 96 shared
Matthew E. Kahn
- 78 shared
Weizeng Sun
Nanjing Audit University
- 73 shared
Matthew E. Kahn
- 57 shared
Jianfeng Wu
- 35 shared
Jianghao Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 32 shared
Cong Sun
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- 21 shared
Edward L. Glaeser
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 16 shared
Hongyu Liu
Labs
MIT Sustainable Urbanization LabPI
Dr. Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She established MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in 2019 and is the current faculty director.
Awards & honors
- MassCPR research funding (2020)
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