Rafal Kucharski Lab
Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
I research complex social systems: urban mobility. Congested, urban multimodal networks used by millions of agents to reach their destinations and leaving huge sets of mobility traces ready to be applied for modelling, optimization, understanding and control. Full CV
Currently, I run the ERC Starting Grant COeXISTENCE where I bridge between ML and transportation - we simulate how intelligent machines compete with humans for limited urban resources (space) and what can we expect. See details here I am Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) with the Group of Machine Learning Research GMUM. I run the NCN Opus Grant on Shared Mobility in the pandemic times, ERC StG and Horizon Europe projects.
Before, I worked (2019-2021) with prof. Oded Cats at TU Delft in his ERC Starting Grant Critical MaaS. I modelled two-sided mobility platforms, specifcally focusing on ride-pooling (ExMAS) and agent-based simulator for Uber-like systems (MaaSSim). I did PhD at Cracow University of Technology with an excellent goup of prof. Andrzej Szarata and working closely with Guido Gentile from La Sapienza on non-equilibrium dynamic traffic assignment. In the interdisciplinary field of urban mobility I did research which can be classified as:
- model estimation, optimization, system control, network design;
- agent-based simulation, game-theory, network science, stochastic simulation, epidemic modelling;
- machine learning, spatial analysis, big data analysis, pattern recognition, unsupervised learning;
- behavioural modelling, economic discrete choice models, policy, sustainability.
Teaching materials
I run the seminar on Complex Social Systems (transport is one of them) at Jagiellonian University - materials and papers are on my github
news
Apr 3, 2024 | 🗞 Complex social systems simulations – human behavior modeling, lecture on Friday at Auditorium Maximum I will be talking about how challenging is introducing the human factor into models and simulations considering humans have their unpredictability and free will what makes simulations more complex. The main question is how do we incorporate these aspects into modeling. Together with the audience I will go on a journey through various examples, from road traffic to pedestrian traffic simulations, presenting how human decisions can shape social phenomena. Finally, I will show how to use artificial intelligence in simulations where people compete for limited resources with intelligent machines. See you there! Presentation |
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Mar 13, 2024 | Young blood at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science during the 16th edition of the Faculty Day! So many inspiring lectures, fruitful discussions and workshops including mine conducted together with Zoltán Varga. Complex social systems simulation at the example of road traffic occured to be very vivid theme for all participants. Such brainstorming atmosphere urges us for further action. I am very proud I could be the part of this initiative. Let me take you there |
Feb 28, 2024 | Great honour to meet with the Jagiellonian University Representatives and my colleagues from other faculties, who also run ERC grants. I talked about the progress in my COeXISTENCE grant, future plans and challenges. Check out more here |
Dec 12, 2023 | Such a wonderful evening at #Krakow’s Kazimierz. Not only a Christmas Party, but also the first time when the complete team of #ERC #COeXISTENCE had a chance to meet and integrate with themselves as well as with ‘older’ friends. 👐 Ten brilliant minds, working now at Jagiellonian University to contribute towards future urban mobility. Great pride of you, wish all the best in the coming year! |
Dec 11, 2023 | 🗞 When ride-pooling is attractive/efficient for all the parties involved (passengers, platforms/providers, city/environment/sustainability)? We examined half a year (1.5 million trip sample) from NYC, run 9 000 experiments with our 𝐄𝐱𝐌𝐀𝐒 and report 6 KPIs to move beyond the well-known 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬 and better understand ride-pooling potential. See our results in 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲: https://lnkd.in/dW5hBvhC or: https://lnkd.in/dGWVbjGN with Olha Shulika Michał Bujak and Farnoud Ghasemi |
Sep 9, 2023 | Today I gave a keynote speech at the TSTP Conference - I gave an overview of future equilibira with CAVs - slides |