Dr. Fabio Duarte is the Associate Director, Research and Design, at the MIT Senseable City Lab, where he is also a Principal Research Scientist. He is also a Lecturer in DUSP and is affiliated with the Sustainable Urbanization Lab, in the Center for Real Estate. He has a background in urban planning and a PhD in communication and technology from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Duarte was a professor at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica (PUC, Curitiba, Brazil) and a visiting professor at the Yokohama University and Twente University. His research field focus on environmental and urban aspects involving vehicles, but not the vehicles themselves.