Research Under a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon, NYU CUSP Professor Daniel B. Neill will lead a three-year research project centered on the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by urban public sector organizations—work… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: February 2021

Research Congratulations to Juan Pablo Bello, Director of CUSP, and Justin Salamon, Research Scientist at Adobe Research and former Senior Research Scientist at CUSP! Their paper “Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Environmental Sound Classification,” has won the… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: January 2021

Research Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yury Dvorkin, who has received a grant from the Electric Power Research Institute to study risk management in electric power systems and electricity markets. A new joint collaboration with NYU CBE, “Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: December 2020

Eric Corbett is a Smart Cities Postdoctoral Research Associate at NYU CUSP. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Savannah State University (a historically Black college) and a PhD in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology.… Continue Reading Design, Social Justice, Democracy, and Technology: A Conversation with Eric Corbett, CUSP Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate

Digital twin: a future of applying urban data by Ziyang Huang Let me start with a simulation computer game Cities: Skylines, where people play as an urban planner and policy maker, create and manage cities in a huge area with a… Continue Reading Meet Yourself in a Virtual World?

By Claudia Gomez Public servants make policy decisions that affect all aspects of their constituents’ lives and as such, as societies become more technological and democratic, it is important for public servants to do the same. Public servants need to… Continue Reading Becoming the next generation of civil servants

John Pamplin II is a Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate at CUSP, as well as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow under the office of the Provost. He received his PhD in Epidemiology in 2020 from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health,… Continue Reading Racial Inequity and Urban Health: A Conversation with John R. Pamplin II, CUSP Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate

How can we better solve public problems with data? by Alba Alsina Maqueda From problems to challenges “Managing rapid change is a key preoccupation of the early twenty-first century”  –  (R. Burdett, P.Rode and M.Groth, Shaping cities in an Urban… Continue Reading Data Action