May 18, 2026 | UT San Antonio | San Antonio, Texas

ScooterLab

Workshop 2026

From Infrastructure to Impact: Advancing Collaborative Research with ScooterLab. Join researchers, students, public-sector stakeholders and industry collaborators for a full day of platform updates, applied research sessions, demos, and collaboration planning.

Monday, May 18, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (CT)

Weston Conference Center, UT San Antonio San Pedro I

Overview

ScooterLab is a community research testbed supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), designed to advance research in urban mobility, smart city infrastructure, privacy, security, and environmental sensing. By leveraging a fleet of sensor-equipped e-scooters, ScooterLab provides a unique open-access platform for micromobility-supported data collection and experimentation.

From Infrastructure to Impact: Advancing Collaborative Research with ScooterLab brings together academic researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore capabilities, real-world applications, and emerging research opportunities enabled by ScooterLab at UT San Antonio under NSF awards #2234516 and #2234517. Building on the foundation established in 2025, this year's workshop focuses on moving from platform demonstration to research execution by highlighting progress from ongoing collaborations, sharing lessons from active projects, and shaping the next wave of deployable studies.

Call for Proposals

To foster new research projects and collaborations leveraging the ScooterLab testbed, we invite academic, industry, and government researchers, engineers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to submit short three-page proposals. Selected proposals will be invited to participate in the workshop, where authors will have the opportunity to present their research ideas to the broader community, explore the ScooterLab infrastructure firsthand, and engage with the ScooterLab team.

Proposal submissions are due by ~~April 2, 2026 (11:59 PM CT)~~ April 7, 2026 (11:59 PM CT) (extended), notification is expected by April 10, 2026, and the registration deadline is May 5, 2026. For submission guidelines and further details, please click below.

More Info

Schedule

Monday, May 18, 2026 (CDT, UTC-5)

All sessions will be in the Weston Conference Center unless otherwise noted.

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Check-in & Breakfast (Provided)

8:45 AM - 8:50 AM

Opening Remarks

Dr. Jinjun Xiong Dean, College of AI, Cyber and Computing at UT San Antonio

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM

Welcome Message & Logistics

Murtuza Jadliwala

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Introduction to ScooterLab

Raveen Wijewickrama

Buddhi Ashan M.K.

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break & Networking

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Keynote 1

Session Chair: Murtuza Jadliwala

John Kenney Toyota InfoTech Labs, Mountain View, California

Title: TBD

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch (Provided)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Community Advisory Board Meeting

Session Chair: Anindya Maiti

Invite only. Room 325.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

ScooterLab Research Collaboration Talks I

Three talks, 20 minutes each. Session Chair: Sushil K. Prasad.

TBD

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Keynote 2

Session Chair: Greg Griffin

Grant McKenzie McGill University

Title: TBD

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Coffee Break & Networking

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

ScooterLab Research Collaboration Talks II

Three talks, 20 minutes each. Session Chair: Anindya Maiti.

TBD

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Panel

Topic: TBD

Moderator: Greg Griffin

Panelists: TBD

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Concluding Remarks

Murtuza Jadliwala, Sushil K. Prasad, Greg Griffin, Anindya Maiti

5:45 PM - 7:00 PM

1:1 Meetings with Collaborators

Weston Conference Center and Room 108

Venue

The event will be held in the Weston Conference Center at UT San Antonio College of AI, Cyber and Computing, located in the heart of San Antonio, TX. The venue is easily accessible by air, road, and public transportation.