Hi, I'm Freya Tan

I'm an incoming CS PhD at the NYU Computer Science Department, where I'll join the VIDA Center, advised by Prof. Claudio Silva and co-advised by Prof. Paul Torrens.

My research builds multimodal AI systems that perceive and reason about the physical world. Current threads include vision-language models for geospatial imagery, graph-based representations of human movement and the built environment, and LLM-driven reasoning over structured spatial data — broadly at the intersection of GeoAI and urban computing.

Prior to NYU, I completed my M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT, advised by Prof. Phillip Isola at CSAIL — concurrently pursuing a Master in City Planning at the City Form Lab under Prof. Andres Sevtsuk.