Fabio Carrera
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Fabio Carrera is a full time member of the faculty of the
Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division at the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute (WPI), where he is also the director of the Venice and Boston Project
Centers, as well as the founder and director of City Lab, an interdisciplinary
research laboratory dedicated to Urban Technology and Information Systems. In
addition to a number of scientific papers, he has been featured in the National
Geographic magazine, MIT’s Technology Review magazine, the Smithsonian magazine,
Wired, New Scientist and Science. He was also featured on BBC Radio and in a
National Geographic video completely dedicated to his work in his hometown of
Venice, Italy. Ever since he earned his Ph.D. degree in Urban Information
Systems and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a
dissertation entitled “City Knowledge: an emergent information infrastructure
for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning”, Fabio’s main
research focus has been on emergent systems and in particular on the gradual and
systematic accumulation of urban and environmental information for the creation
of comprehensive municipal information infrastructures that will reliably and
continually support maintenance, management and planning operations, as well as
education and outreach. He is currently working on the release of twenty years
of detailed geospatial data collected by over 450 WPI students who produced 120
research projects in Venice since 1988.