Arianna Salazar Miranda

Arianna is a Ph.D. student in Urban Information Systems, interested in studying the effect that the physical environment has on people. In particular, to understand how the form of cities and buildings shape behavior, social interactions, and people’s access to economic and social opportunity. She studies these topics primarily through the use of spatial techniques of analysis on large datasets gathered from social media or collected by sensors, and remote sensing.

She completed a Master of City Planning degree at MIT and was awarded the Outstanding Master Thesis Prize for the 2016/17 academic year. Her thesis analyzed the relationship between urban form and segregation. She is also a co-founder of Bitsence, a startup that develops technology to measure the impact of urban interventions. For this initiative, she was named one of the Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in Latin America.