Alex Berke

We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…

zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…

Door-to-door drone package deliveries are taking off across the US.  In this work we expose and study a newly emerging privacy is…

OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…

Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…

There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private f…

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptograp…

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…

An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls. 

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…