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Dr. Federico Cugurullo

Ussher Assistant Professor (Geography)
MUSEUM BUILDING

 cugurulf@tcd.ie

 3531896 4915


Biography

Federico Cugurullo is Assistant Professor in Smart and Sustainable Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin. His research is positioned at the intersection of urban geography, political philosophy and experimental urbanism, and explores how ideas of sustainability are cultivated and implemented, with a focus on projects for smart and eco-cities. He is currently researching how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting on urban governance and planning, thereby influencing the sustainability of cities. Federico has done extensive empirical research in the Middle East and Southeast Asia where he has investigated the sustainability performance of supposedly experimental cities such as Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong. His work has been used by the United Nations and the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to foresee future urban challenges and develop preventive policies. Building upon his empirical research on AI, Federico has contributed to the development of the theory of autonomous urbanism. Other theoretical contributions include the concept of urban eco-modernisation, the notion of urban artificial intelligence, the development of urban equations and the critical theory of Frankenstein Urbanism. Before joining Trinity College Dublin, Federico held positions at the University of Manchester, King's College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research Tags

  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   autonomous vehicles   generative AI   HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION   new cities   Smart Cities

Representations

Details Date
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 2019 - present
Member of the editorial board of Geotema 2018 - present
Reviewer for the European Commission of ERC Starting Grants and Advance Grants. 2020 - present
Research analyst, Cities Programme (United Nations) 2013-2014
Horizon scanner, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), United Kingdom Government 2014-2016

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Global associate, Circles of sustainability (UN Global Compact Cities Programme; Metropolis) 2015 present
Fellow, American Association of Geographers 2011 present
Fellow, International Eco-Cities Initiative 2011 present
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society 2009 present
McCarroll Cian, Cugurullo Federico, Social implications of autonomous vehicles: a focus on time, AI & Society, (37), 2022, p791 - 800, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Gaio, Alexander, and Federico Cugurullo, Cyclists and autonomous vehicles at odds: Can the Transport Oppression Cycle be Broken in the Era of Artificial Intelligence?, AI & Society, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Federico Cugurullo, Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City, London, Routledge, 2021, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Acheampong, R. A., Cugurullo, F., Gueriau, M., & Dusparic, I. , Can autonomous vehicles enable sustainable mobility in future cities? Insights and policy challenges from user preferences over different urban transport options, Cities, 112, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Federico Cugurullo, Ransford Acheampong, Maxime Gueriau, Ivana Dusparic, The transition to autonomous cars, the redesign of cities and the future of urban sustainability, Urban Geography, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Gueriau, Maxime and Cugurullo, Federico and Acheampong, Ransford A. and Dusparic, Ivana, Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand: Learning-based approach and its performance in the presence of traffic congestion, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Cugurullo Federico, Urban artificial intelligence: From automation to autonomy in the smart city, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2, 2020, p1 - 14, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Yigitcanlar Tan and Federico Cugurullo, The sustainability of artificial intelligence: An urbanistic viewpoint from the lens of smart and sustainable cities, Sustainability, 12, (20), 2020, p8548-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Acheampong, R. A., & Cugurullo, F., Capturing the behavioural determinants behind the adoption of autonomous vehicles: Conceptual frameworks and measurement models to predict public transport, sharing and ownership trends of self-driving cars, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 62, 2019, p349 - 375, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, Paperback, London, Routledge, 2018, Book, PUBLISHED
  

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Federico Cugurullo, Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, Review of Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, by Davina Cooper , Area, 46, (4), 2014, p448 , Review, PUBLISHED
Reconsidering Utopia and Dystopia: a matter of perception in, editor(s)Blaim A. and Gruszewska Blaim , Spectres of Utopia. Theory, Practice, Conventions, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2012, [Federico Cugurullo], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
IRC Laureate Award September 2022
The Syllabus Book of the Week: Frankenstein Urbanism June 2021
Provost's PhD Project Award January 2020
New Horizons Interdisciplinary Research Award, Irish Research Council (220,000 euro), Principal Investigator, project title: Surpass - How shared autonomous cars will transform cities. December 2016
Plenary at the international winter conference of the Regional Studies Association November 2016
Recognizing and Rewarding Exceptional Performance (RREP) - University of Manchester June 2016
Italy Made Me Award (Social Sciences and Humanities Category), Best Italian early-stage academic working in the UK, Italian Embassy July 2015
European Union's Master and Back Postgraduate Scholarship (76,640 euro) October 2009

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Federico's latest strand of research investigates, empirically and theoretically, how the development of artificial intelligence is changing the development of cities. He is currently the Principal Investigator of Surpass, a project funded by the Irish Research Council, to study the urban sustainability potential of self-driving cars operated by AI: http://research.ie/what-we-do/loveirishresearch/blog/autonomous-cars-are-driving-fast-towards-us/