Andres Sevtsuk is a Charles and Ann Spaulding Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and head of the City Design and Development Group. Sevtsuk leads the City Form Lab at MIT, where his research focuses on the influence of built environments on sustainable travel behavior and on public qualities of cities–urban ground floors, and amenity location patterns. His work contributes to making city environments more walkable, sustainable and equitable, bridging the fields of urban design, spatial analytics and mobility research. He is the author of the Urban Network Analysis framework and software tools, used by researchers and practitioners around the world to model pedestrian activity in cities and to study coordinated land use and transportation development in ways that reduce transportation carbon emissions.

Sevtsuk has collaborated with numerous city governments, international organizations, planning practices and developers on urban designs, plans and policies in both developed and rapidly developing urban environments, including those in US, Indonesia, Australia, Lebanon, Estonia and Singapore. He has led various international research projects, published in planning, transportation and urban design journals, and received numerous awards for his work.

Before joining MIT, Andres was an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds a PhD from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and an SMArchs in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT.