Stanislav Sobolevsky has been an Associate Professor of practice with the Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University, since 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1999 and the D.Sc. (Habilitation) degree in 2009 in mathematics in Belarus. His former work experience includes research, faculty, and administrative positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Belarusian State University, and the Academy of Science of Belarus. He applies his fundamental quantitative background to studying human behavior in an urban context and a city as a complex system through its digital traces and spatiotemporal big data created by various aspects of human activity. His research is conducted in close cooperation with city agencies and industrial partners from banking, telecom, defense, insurance, and other areas.