My Work | Nissim Lebovits – Nissim Lebovits

Op Ed: Use Data for Better Cleaning and Greening

In response to Mayor Cherelle Parker’s cleaning and greening initiatives in Philadelphia, I wrote an op ed in The Philadelphia Citizen calling on the Mayor to take a more…

Google Earth Engine for Urban Planning

Based on my work in Google Earth Engine for a UN-Habitat project, I gave a guest lecture to Penn’s graduate-level “deep learning applications for remote sensing” class. The…

Remote Sensing for Urban Planning

Based on an independent study that I did in remote sensing applications for urban planning, I gave a guest lecture to Penn’s graduate-level “deep learning applications for…

Clean & Green Philly

Philadelphia has a gun violence problem. Through Code for Philly, I am leading a civic tech project that will help solve this problem by empowering community groups to carry…

Identifying Upzoning Opportunities

For a “Public Policy Analytics” class at Penn, Laura Frances and I analyzed conflicts between anticipated and current zoning. Using a random forest model trained on historic…

Flood Prediction for Costa Rica

As part of a broader UN-Habitat initiative, I have been developing a methodology to predict urban flooding probabilities using open source remote sensing data and machine…

Wetland Change in Argentina

For an independent study in applications of remote sensing for sustainable urban planning, I used Google Earth Engine and global wetlands datasets to train a Random Forest…

Predicting Illegal Dumping

Illegal dumping is a major problem in Philadelphia. Especially in low-income, minority neighborhoods, illegal dumping has a significant impact on quality of life, property…

Identifying Vulnerable Water Suppliers

As a research assistant for Professor Allison Lassiter, I work on assessing the vulnerability of U.S. coastal drinking water suppliers to climate change. We consider…

Sea Level Rise Threat to Biodiversity

For a floodplain management class in my first semester at Penn, I was interested in using citizen science data from eBird to explore conflicts between biodiversity and sea…

Illegal Dumping Live Dashboard

To improve my R skills, I built a dashboard in R that uses flexdashboard to visualize illegal dumping in Philadelphia. The dashboard is interactive and allows users to…