Bernd Resch

Visiting Scholar, Center for Geographic Analysis at IQSS
Professor, of Geo-social AI, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U)
Bernd Resch
bresch@fas.harvard.edu

Bernd Resch is a Full Professor of Geo-social AI at IT:U and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for Geographic Analysis. Bernd Resch did his PhD in the area of “Live Geography” (real-time monitoring of environmental geo-processes) together with University of Salzburg and MIT. Prior to joining IT:U, he held positions of Associate Professor and Faculty Speaker at University of Salzburg (Austria), Research Director at Heidelberg University (Germany), and Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT (USA). His research interest revolves around understanding cities as complex systems through analysing a variety of digital data sources, focusing on developing machine learning algorithms to analyse human-generated data like social media posts, mobile phone data and physiological measurements from wearable sensors. The findings are relevant to a number of fields including urban research, disaster management, epidemiology, and others. Bernd received the prestigious Theodor Körner Award for his work on “Urban Emotions”. He also established the iDEAS:lab, a multi-functional outreach and science communication laboratory environment. Amongst a variety of other functions, he is an Editorial Board Member of IJHG, IJGI and PLOS ONE, a scientific committee member of various international conferences (having chaired several conferences), and an Executive Board member of Spatial Services GmbH.