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Dr. Timothy (Tim) Fraser is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University , where he has been working since 2022. He is also Coordinator for the Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH) .

Dr. Fraser is a computational social scientist , developing methods, systems, and software to help communities combat environmental crises. He has published 51 peer-reviewed studies , plus dashboards, R packages, and software, on urban resilience and environmental systems in the US and Japan. His research has been funded by multiple national grants, including Fulbright .

He has advised researchers on social infrastructure at the OECD and UN Development Programme's Accelerator Labs , and earned his PhD from Northeastern University in 2022.

Current Research Focus: Developing AI and cloud computing tools to quantify, visualize, and communicate environmental policy data to the public, to support community action and resilience in socio-technical systems.


Featured Work

Analyzing the environmental impacts of congestion pricing policies in New York City.

Mapping social infrastructure and community resources across urban areas.

Visualize your county's emissions from transportation! Powered by Gao Labs @ Cornell

How prepared is your city for crisis? Find out here!


Research Impact

51

Peer-Reviewed Studies

10+

R Packages & Dashboards

50+

Student Coauthors

30+

Journal Reviews


Areas of Expertise
AI & Cloud Computing
Big Data & APIs
Dashboards & DataViz
Environmental Policy
Urban Resilience
Network Statistics
Renewable Energy
GIS & Spatial Analysis
R Packages & Software

Research

Research Overview

Research Focus

Dr. Fraser's research focuses on developing AI and cloud computing tools to quantify, visualize, and communicate environmental policy data to the public, supporting community action and resilience in socio-technical systems.

Key Areas:
  • Urban resilience and environmental systems
  • Transportation emissions and climate action
  • Social infrastructure and community resilience
  • Network analysis and big data analytics
  • Environmental policy in the US and Japan

Research Highlights

  • 51 peer-reviewed publications
  • 10+ R packages and dashboards
  • 50+ student coauthors
  • Social Network Analysis, GIS, Panel Statistics, Surveys
  • Consulted for OECD and UN Development Programme
Interview in the field with environmental activists in Japan
Research Projects
Air Quality
Transportation Systems
Dashboards & Public Communication
Networks & Resilience
Mapping Resilience
Social Ties & Pandemics
Polarization & Health
Energy Policy
Japanese Environmental Policy
Scholarly Networks
Public Scholarship & Press
Collaborators

Faculty Collaborators

  • Oliver Gao , Cornell University
  • Gina Park , Cornell University
  • Daniel Aldrich , Northeastern University
  • Courtney Page-Tan , Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • Andrew Chapman , Kyushu University
  • Pinar Temocin , Hiroshima University
  • Costas Panagopoulos , Northeastern University
  • Sameera Nayak , Northeastern University
  • Juheon Lee , Midwestern State University
  • Melanie Fraser , Cornell University
  • Daniel Kim , Northeastern University

Student Collaborators

  • Larissa Morikawa
  • Andrew Small
  • Lily Cunningham
  • Mary Bancroft
  • Eri Lee
  • Nikki Naquin
  • Amos Nasongo

Together, these students and I have applied data science techniques and published peer-reviewed studies in top journals in environmental policy, including:

  • Global Environmental Change
  • Environmental Innovations & Societal Transitions
  • Climate Risk Management
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Nature Scientific Reports
  • And more!

Teaching

Teaching

Graduate Courses

@ Cornell University Systems Engineering Program

  • SYSEN 5300 - Systems Reliability & Six Sigma (2022, 2023)
  • SYSEN 5400 - Systems Architecture (2023, 2024)
  • SYSEN 5460 - Data Science for Socio-Technical Systems: Data Communication & Decision-Making at Scale (2024)
  • SYSEN 5900 - Research Projects for Masters of Engineering Student Teams (2023, 2024)

Undergraduate Courses

@ Northeastern University Political Science Department

  • POLS 2400 - Quantitative Techniques & Statistics in R (Fall 2021, Spring 2020)
  • POLS 2399 - Research Methods in Political Science (Summer 2021)
  • Masters Capstone Coordinator (Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020)

Educational Resources

Dr. Fraser develops methods tutorials for coding in R, MATLAB, and SQL. See tutorials at RPubs and Sigma Textbook .