Data and Behavior
Energy, Transportation and Smart Mobility 

My team conducts randomized experiments and uses evidence from big data and machine learning algorithms as applied to public policy analysis. 

I am using social data from mobile apps to study resource conservation challenges in cities. 

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Featured Publications:

Big Data and Connected, Smart Devices

Big Data and EV Charging Behavior with AI

Correcting Consumer Misperception
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​Published in Nature Energy

Real-time data from mobile platforms to evaluate sustainable transportation infrastructure 

Published in Nature Sustainability

Big Data and Detecting Behavioral Failures in Infrastructure

Sentiment Analysis

Evaluating Electric Vehicle User Mobility Data Using Neural Network-Based Language Models
​Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2019
Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies
(with Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, and Emerson Wenzel) ​

Topic Classification - binary classification

Detecting Behavioral Failures in Electric Vehicle Infrastructure using Supervised Text Classification Algorithms
​Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2020
(with Sooji Ha, Daniel Marchetto and Mary Elizabeth Burke)

Topic Classification - multi-topic classification​
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Extracting User Behavior at Electric Vehicle Charging Stations through Deep Learning
Forthcoming, CARMA 2020 Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences
(with Daniel Marchetto, Sooji Ha and Sameer Dharur)

Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences through Transformer Based Deep Learning
under review
(with Sameer Dharur, Sooji Ha, and Daniel Marchetto)

Spatial visualization​
Using Machine Learning Techniques To Aid Environmental Policy Analysis: A Teaching Case
in Big Data and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Forthcoming, Case Studies in the Environment, University of California Press
(with Ximin Mi and Sameer Dharur) 

Big Data and Information Policies

The Effectiveness of US Energy Efficiency Labels

​​Published in Nature Energy

Big Data and Energy Conservation

Nonprice Incentives and Energy Conservation

​Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Big Data and Behavior Change

The Dynamics of Behavior Change
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​Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Code and replication materials for current projects on GitHub
www.github.com/asensio-lab

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