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Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Principal Research Scientist
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Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought

Chance Jiajie Li, Jiayi Wu, Zhenze Mo, Ao Qu, Yuhan Tang, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Jinhua Zhao, Paul Liang, Luis Alonso, Kent Larson. (2025). Position: Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought. In Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

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Predicting mobility choice and community connectivity in Latin America

Eduardo Bilbao Pavón, Luis Alonso Pastor, Alejandro Padilla, Mayra Gamboa, Kent Larson, Predicting mobility choice and community connectivity in Latin America, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Volume 19, 2025,

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Gastronomy and beyond: A collaborative initiative for rethinking food's role in society, sustainability, and territory

Balderas-Cejudo, A., Iruretagoyena, M., Alonso, L., Church, M., Izquierdo, L., Hill, I., & Larson, K. (2025). Gastronomy and Beyond: A collaborative Initiative for Rethinking Food’s Role in Society, Sustainability, and Territory. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 101118.

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Dossier City Science Process

City Science: Process. Internet Archive, uploaded by Internet Archive, archive.org/details/city‑science‑process. Accessed 15 July 2025.

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Urban Mobility Swarms: Towards a Decentralized Autonomous Bicycle-Sharing System

Coretti-Sanchez, N., et al. "Urban Mobility Swarms: Towards a Decentralized Autonomous Bicycle-Sharing System." 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2023.

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Quantum improvement in Spatial Discretization

Gonzalez, Saul, and Parfait Atchade-Adelomou. "Quantum improvement in Spatial Discretization." arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09036 (2023).

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Efficient quantum modular arithmetics for the ISQ era

Atchade-Adelomou, Parfait, and Saul Gonzalez. "Efficient quantum modular arithmetics for the ISQ era." arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08555 (2023).

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Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, 2022, 103489, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103489

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Taxonomy of Informality: Methodology for Establishing Multi-Dimension Global Informal Indicators to Be Used on the Informality Crowd-Sourced

Wang, Xinran and Iruretagoyena, Maitane and Pastor, Luis Alonso and Larson, Kent, Taxonomy of Informality: Methodology for Establishing Multi-Dimension Global Informal Indicators to Be Used on the Informality Crowd-Sourced Database. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4149958 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4149958

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On the performance of shared autonomous bicycles: A simulation study

Sanchez, Naroa Coretti, et al. "On the performance of shared autonomous bicycles: A simulation study." Communications in Transportation Research 2 (2022): 100066

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On the simulation of shared autonomous micro-mobility

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Iñigo Martinez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, "On the simulation of shared autonomous micro-mobility", Communications in Transportation Research, Volume 2 (2022): 100065, ISSN 2772-4247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commtr.2022.100065

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Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting

Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776

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Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra

Berke A, Doorley R, Alonso L, Arroyo V, Pons M, & Larson, K. (2022) Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0264860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264860

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Dynamic V2V power-sharing for collaborative fleets of autonomous vehicles

González, J. M., Sánchez, N. C., Llop, P. G. M., Pastor, L. A., & Larson, K. (2021, October). Dynamic V2V power-sharing for collaborative fleets of autonomous vehicles. In 2021 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) (pp. 408-413). IEEE

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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.

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Dynamic Urban Planning: an Agent-Based Model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use case Kendall Square

Yurrita, M., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Zhang, Y., Jara-Figueroa, C., Elkatsha, M., Larson, K., (2021) Dynamic Urban Planning: An Agent-Based Model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use Case Kendall Square. In: Arai K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_66

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Simulation study on the fleet performance of shared autonomous bicycles

Sánchez, N. C., Martinez, I., Pastor, L. A., & Larson, K. (2021). Simulation study on the fleet performance of shared autonomous bicycles. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09694

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Informando lo informal: estrategias para generar información en asentamientos precarios

Acevedo, P. et al., Informando lo informal: estrategias para generar información en asentamientos precarios, IADB: Inter-American Development Bank. United States of America. Retrieved from https://coilink.org/20.500.12592/4nkcw6 on 26 Jun 2025. COI: 20.500.12592/4nkcw6.

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Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread

Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.

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Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform

Orii, L., Alonso, L. and Larson, K., 2020. Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform. Sustainability, 12(22), p.9458.

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An Agent-Based Model of Social Fabric Seen as an Emergent Behavior

Palomo, G., Siller, M., Grignard, A., Alonso, L. (2021). An Agent-Based Model of Social Fabric Seen as an Emergent Behavior. In: Yang, Z., von Briesen, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. CSSSA 2020. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77517-9_10

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Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems

Sanchez, Naroa Coretti, Luis Alonso Pastor, and Kent Larson. "Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems." 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2020.

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Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints

Doorley, R., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., Maciá, N. and Larson, K., 2020, September. Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

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Urban Safety Perception Metrics in Conflict-Sensitive Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Lomas del Centinela, Guadalajara (México)

Humanitarian Mapping. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 23-27, 2020

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RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data

Doorley, R., Noyman, A., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019, May 1). RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data. 2019 Smart Cities Symposium Prague, SCSP 2019 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2019.8805683

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Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data

Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A. and Larson, K., 2019. Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), pp.1480-1498.

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BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Marrocco, L., Ferrer, E. C., Bucchiarone, A., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Larson, K., & Pentland, A. (2018, July). BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities. In International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (pp. 144-162). Springer, Cham.

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Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management

A. L. Alfeo et al., "Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management," 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 4233-4240.

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CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.

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The Impact of New Mobility Modes on a City: A Generic Approach Using ABM

Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Taillandier, P., Gaudou, B., Nguyen-Huu, T., Gruel, W., & Larson, K. (2018, July). The Impact of New Mobility Modes on a City: A Generic Approach Using ABM. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 272-280). Springer, Cham.

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CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., Elkatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2019). Data-driven, evidence-based simulation of urban dynamics. use case volpe. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, IX, 4.

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CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization

Arnaud Grignard, Núria Macià, Luis Alonso Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yan Zhang, and Kent Larson. 2018. CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1939-1940.

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Evaluation tool for sustainable decision-making during the architectural design

Orondo, J., Alonso, L., & Bedoya, C. (2017). Herramienta de evaluación para la toma de decisiones sostenibles, durante el anteproyecto arquitectónico = Evaluation tool for sustainable decision-making during the architectural design. Anales de Edificación, 3(1), 51-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.20868/ade.2017.3535

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Establishment of a novel in vitro model of stratified epithelial wound healing with barrier function

Gonzalez-Andrades M., Alonso-Pastor L., Mauris J., Cruzat A., Dohlman C.H., Argüeso P. “Establishment of a novel in vitro model of stratified epithelial wound healing with barrier function” Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 19395 (2016 Jan 13)

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Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata

Y. Leng, A. Noriega, A.S. Pentland, I. Winder, N. Lutz, L. Alonso: "Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.

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Graph RAG as Human Choice Model: Building a Data-Driven Mobility Agent with Preference Chain

Hu, Kai, Parfait Atchade-Adelomou, Carlo Adornetto, Adrian Mora-Carrero, Luis Alonso-Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yubo Liu, and Kent Larson. "Graph RAG as Human Choice Model: Building a Data-Driven Mobility Agent with Preference Chain." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16172 (2025).