Publications

2025

Automated Neighborhood Archetypes: Integrating Urban Morphology and Topology for Scalable Urban Building Energy Modeling

Xinwei Zhuang, Freya Tan

Energy & Buildings, Under Review (2025)

[Project Page]

MINGLE: VLMs for Semantically Complex Region Detection in Urban Scenes

Liu Liu, Alexandra Kudaeva, Marco Cipriano, Fatimeh Al Ghannam, Freya Tan, Gerard de Melo, Andres Sevtsuk

AAAI 2026, arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.13484 (2025)

[arXiv]

Sidewalk Moments: Decompose visual impressions based on dynamic city walk video footage

Liu Liu, Freya Tan, Fabio Duarte

American Association of Geographers 2026 (AAG) (2025)

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Beyond Prompts: A reference-based interaction framework for generative AI in design fields

Rohit Sanatani, Richa Gupta, Freya Tan, Randall Davis, Takehiko Nagakura

HCI International 2026 Under Review (2025)

Seeing "HAI": Human Activities and Interactions Detection from Streetviews through LLMs

Liu Liu, Marco Cipriano, Freya Tan, Aleksandra Kudaeva, Andres Sevtsuk

2025 ACSP 65th Annual Conference

[Project Page]

2023

Chapter 4: Reimagining Education, Rewinding Valley: A New Knowledge-Production Vision for Salinas Valley

Tan, F., Yu, M., Gogri, Y.

In Ettore Santi (Auth.), Margaret Crawford (ed.), Designing the Rural. Urban Design in Rural California, UC Berkeley

[Project Page]