7 papers
Do LLMs Know Your Neighborhood? Auditing LLM Priors for Neighborhood-Level Mobility Prediction and Structural Alignment
Saad Mohammad Abrar, Eesha Kurella, Arnav Dadarya +3
Human mobility is central to urban planning, transportation, public health, and emergency response, yet fine-grained trajectory data are often proprietary, restricted, and privacy-…
From "I have nothing to hide" to "It looks like stalking": Measuring Americans' Level of Comfort with Individual Mobility Features Extracted from Location Data
Naman Awasthi, Saad Mohammad Abrar, Daniel Smolyak +1
Location data collection has become widespread with smart phones becoming ubiquitous. Smart phone apps often collect precise location data from users by offering \textit{free} serv…
Systematic analysis of the effectiveness of adding human mobility data to covid-19 case prediction linear models
Saad Mohammad Abrar, Naman Awasthi, Daniel Smolyak +1
Human mobility data has been extensively used in covid-19 case prediction models. Nevertheless, related work has questioned whether mobility data really helps that much. We present…
DemOpts: Fairness corrections in COVID-19 case prediction models
Naman Awasthi, Saad Abrar, Daniel Smolyak +1
COVID-19 forecasting models have been used to inform decision making around resource allocation and intervention decisions e.g., hospital beds or stay-at-home orders. State of the…
COVID-19's Unequal Toll: An assessment of small business impact disparities with respect to ethnorace in metropolitan areas in the US using mobility data
Saad Mohammad Abrar, Kazi Tasnim Zinat, Naman Awasthi +1
Early in the pandemic, counties and states implemented a variety of non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) focused on mobility, such as national lockdowns or work-from-home strat…
Assessing the Impact of Case Correction Methods on the Fairness of COVID-19 Predictive Models
Daniel Smolyak, Saad Abrar, Naman Awasthi +1
One of the central difficulties of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has been accurately measuring and predicting the spread of infections. In particular, official COVID-19 case cou…