She works in the area of urban computing, with a focus on the intersections of people with the built environment and their social networks. Her ultimate goal is to design urban mobility solutions and to enable the sustainable development of smart cities. Professor González has injected new tools into transportation research and is a leader in the emergent field of urban computing. She received a licentiate in physics from Universidad Simon Bolivar. She holds a Magister Scientiarum in physics from the Central University of Venezuela in 2001 and a Ph.D. in physics (Dr. rer. nat) from Stuttgart Univarsität.