Xiongbing Jin is interested in the complexity arising from the interactions among urban land use, transportation infrastructure and individual choices and preferences. During his postdoc at the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Jin was the lead developer of the agent-based Waterloo Regional Model (WARM) which aims to simulate the relationships among residential location choices, trip decisions and landscape management, and the influences of urban infrastructure and policies on these decisions. He was also a lead developer of the Digging into Data (DiD) project MIRACLE (Mining the relationships among variables in large datasets from complex systems) which aims to provide a data analysis, visualization and management platform for the big data generated by agent-based models (ABMs). He received his PhD in 2010 from Memorial University of Newfoundland.