talks

2026

  1. SSC
    A Dual-LLM Supervised Workflow for Replicating Agent-Based Models: From NetLogo to Mesa
    Boyu Wang, JoAnn S. Lee, and Andrew Crooks
    Social Simulation Conference, Durham, UK, 2026
    Slides
  2. AAG
    Mesa-LLM: Generative Agent-Based Modeling with Large Language Models Empowered Agents
    Boyu Wang, Colin Frisch, Sanika Nair, Jacqueline Kazil, and Andrew Crooks
    AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2026
    Slides

2025

  1. ISDE
    Exploring the Potential of Geospatial Agent-Based Models for Digital Earths: A Socio-Ecological Systems Approach
    Xin Lin, Tao Wu, Mincheng Li, Boyu Wang, Andrew Crooks, and Shuang Song
    14th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Chongqing, China, 2025
    Slides
  2. AAG
    PySGN: A Python Package for Constructing Synthetic Geospatial Networks
    Boyu Wang, Andrew Crooks, Taylor Anderson, and Andreas Züfle
    AAG Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, USA, 2025
    Slides
  3. AAG
    Large Language Models for Conceptualizing, Designing, and Generating Agent-Based Models
    Na Jiang, Boyu Wang, and Andrew Crooks
    AAG Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, USA, 2025

2024

  1. AGU
    A Framework for Populating Urban Digital Twins with Agents
    Andrew Crooks, Na Jiang, Fuzhen Yin, and Boyu Wang
    AGU Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, 2024
  2. CSSSA
    Mesa-Geo: Agent-Based Modeling and Geographical Information System in Python
    Thomas Pike, Jacqueline Kazil, and Boyu Wang
    Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, 2024
    Video
  3. AAG
    Simulating Urban Flow with Geographically Explicit Synthetic Population
    Boyu Wang and Andrew Crooks
    AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024
    Slides
  4. AAG
    Mesa, Agent-Based Modeling in Python
    Jacqueline Kazil, Boyu Wang, and Thomas Pike
    AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024

2023

  1. AAG
    Do People Care About Others’ Opinions of Places? Utilizing Deep Learning to Model Peoples’ Review Patterns
    Boyu Wang and Andrew Crooks
    AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, 2023
    Slides
  2. AAG
    Community Resilience to Wildfires: A Network Analysis Approach by Utilizing Human Mobility Data
    Qingqing Chen, Boyu Wang, and Andrew Crooks
    AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, 2023
    Slides

2022

  1. SIGSPATIAL GeoSim
    Mesa-Geo: A GIS Extension for the Mesa Agent-Based Modeling Framework in Python
    Boyu Wang, Vincent Hess, and Andrew Crooks
    5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation, Seattle, WA, USA, 2022
    Code Slides