Research Team
Chaithat (Hom) Vanasrisawasd
Urban Digital Twin TeamM.Eng. Computer Science
Cornell University
Chaithat (Hom) Vanasrisawasd is an M.Eng. student in Computer Science at Cornell University, working with AI4C on the Digital Twin track. His interests center on software engineering, AI, and building scalable, data-driven applications.
Before Cornell, Hom spent several years as a software engineer working across full-stack development, backend systems, and data infrastructure. He holds a B.A. in Geography and Data Science from the University of Washington. At Cornell, he is interested in expanding his knowledge of AI and exploring how it can be applied alongside his software engineering experience to build real-world systems.
“Excited to learn, contribute, and help build the future of urban digital planning.”
Focus areas
Projects
Heatscape NYC
Urban heat intervention planner — 10,081 populated cells scored on 43 indicators and matched to the cooling intervention their context supports.
Project overview
URIS Mapper
A causal diagram platform — build a loop map, let it find the reinforcing and balancing structures, and ask what a change would propagate to.
urismapper.com