What's Happening at CUSP: July 2021

July 15, 2021

CUSP is Hiring!

Visiting Assistant or Associate Faculty: The successful candidate will serve as the Interim Director of Academics at CUSP, manage a staff of two, and lead admissions, marketing, student services, curricular development and quality control for our programs. As part of CUSP’s leadership team, they will also contribute to strategic planning and decision-making for the center and lead our faculty on academic issues. The successful candidate will also be expected to advise students and teach 4-5 courses/year, including our two-semester capstone sequence of hands-on project work with external partners, as well as specialized courses from our required or elective lists. This position is full-time, non-tenured, with an initial appointment for 1 year, renewable depending on need and performance.

Marketing and Communications Manager: Reporting to the CUSP Academic Director, this position is responsible for managing NYU CUSP’s marketing strategies and tools. Leveraging new and existing technologies, and in accordance with the Director and CUSP’s priorities and strategies, design web content, social media, digital marketing, and communications plans primarily for CUSP MS degree and Online Advanced Certificate program admissions.

Research

Assistant Professor S. Farokh Atashzar organized a workshop on “NeuroHaptics: Touch with the Brain” at IEEE WorldHaptics 2021. The workshop discussed the most recent novel efforts related to neuroscientific models for the human sense of touch and the combination of haptics and advanced neurorehabilitation robotics technologies.

Assistant Professor Joseph Chow has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part C (2020 Impact Factor: 8.089).

Assistant Professor Joseph Chow is guest editing a special issue on “Reliability and Resilience of Emerging Mobility Systems” in relation to the recent virtual 8^th International Symposium on Transport Network Reliability (INSTR).

Professor Debra Laefer has welcomed several new students to her research initiatives:
- Doctoral students Kim Hertz and Elmon Toman (Urban Infrastructure Systems) and Ayman Elzibak (Civil Engineering) have joined the Urban Modeling Group.
- William Schell, an Environmental Science teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School, has joined Prof. Laefer’s summer research program investigating low cost means for localized flood modeling around the Newtown Creek.
- High school students CJ Amos, Priscilla Ramchand, Ron Alweiss, and Ayesa Siddeky, as well as Delphine Protopapas from the Weston Research Program at Brooklyn Technical High School have joined professor Laefer’s summer research group through the NYU ARISE program. They are investigating COVID-19 related spatio-temporal patterns and are also joined by visiting scholar Andrew Larkin from the University of Utah.

Professor Debra Laefer is leading the standards working group for the Disaster Use Case for the development of the Open Geo-Spatial Consortium’s Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration (MUDDI) model, which is designed to make subsurface utility data fully interoperable.

Professor Debra Laefer was recently named a finalist in the NSF BRITE (Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering) completion in the Fellow Track. The BRITE Fellow Track is intended to support established tenured or equivalent researchers who have demonstrated impact beyond scientific output to request extended time and freedom to use their intellectual creativity to explore divergent, bold, and ambitious research ideas where the expected scientific outcomes are highly uncertain and, therefore, high-risk.

Professor Debra Laefer has been named the Chair of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) Bulletin, which produces technical and professional guidance documents and peer-reviewed case studies.

Professor Debra Laefer is also chairing the upcoming 3D GeoInfo 2021 conference, a 4-day virtual event focusing on advances in spatial data collection, analysis, and visualization. NYU faculty member and noble laureate Paul Romer will give the opening talk for the conference.

Publications

Luis Ceferino, Percy Galvez, Jean‐Paul Ampuero, Anne Kiremidjian, Gregory Deierlein, Juan C. Villegas‐Lanza. “Bayesian Parameter Estimation for Space and Time Interacting Earthquake Rupture Model Using Historical and Physics‐Based Simulated Earthquake Catalogs.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2021; doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210013

Patel S, Ceferino L, Liu C, Kiremidjian A, Rajagopal R. “The disaster resilience value of shared rooftop solar systems in residential communities.” Earthquake Spectra. June 2021. doi:10.1177/87552930211020020

Li, L., Pantelidis, T., Chow, J.Y.J. and Jabari, S.E., 2021. “A real-time dispatching strategy for shared automated electric vehicles with performance guarantees.” Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 152, p.102392.

Correa, D., Chow, J.Y.J. and Ozbay, K., 2021. “Spatial-Dynamic Matching Equilibrium Models of New York City Taxi and Uber Markets.” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 147(9), 04021048

Li, M. and Chow, J.Y.J., 2021. “School bus routing problem with mixed ride, heterogeneous fleet, and mixed load.” Transportation Research Record, in press, doi: 10.1177/03611981211016860.

Sophie-An Kingsbury Lee, and Debra F. Laefer, 2021. “Spring 2020 COVID-19 Community Transmission Behaviours Around New York City Medical Facilities.” Infection Prevention in Practice, p.100158.

Peng Zhang, Anh-Vu Vo, Debra F. Laefer, and Maurizio Porfiri, 2021. “Integrated Evolutionary Algorithms/Computational Fluid Dynamics for Drag Reduction in Highway Design.” Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 27(3), p.04021025.

Zohreh Zahiri, Debra F. Laefer, and Aoife Gowen. “Characterizing building materials using multispectral imagery and LiDAR intensity data.” Journal of Building Engineering (2021): 102603.

T. Sun, Q. Hu, P. Gulati, and S. F. Atashzar. “Temporal Dilation of Deep LSTM for Agile Decoding of sEMG: Application in Prediction of Upper-limb Motor Intention in NeuroRobotics,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, pp. 1–1, 2021.

D. Jiménez-Grande, S. F. Atashzar, E. Martinez-Valdes, and D. Falla, “Muscle network topology analysis for the classification of chronic neck pain based on EMG biomarkers extracted during walking,” PLoS One, vol. 16, no. 6, p. e0252657, Jun. 2021.

Ahmed Altelbani, Haoran Zhou, Sarmad Mehrdad, Farshid Alambeigi, S. Farokh Atashzar, “Design and Validation of a New Family of Bio-Inspired 3D-Printable Structurally-Programmable Soft Robots,” 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Yunhan Huang, Linan Huang, and Quanyan Zhu. “Reinforcement Learning for Feedback-Enabled Cyber Resilience.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00783 (2021).

Marcelo Arenas, Pedro Bahamondes, and Julia Stoyanovich. “Temporal Regular Path Queries: Syntax, Semantics, and Complexity.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01241 (2021).

Ayanna Seals, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Jennifer Otiono, Orit Shaer, and Oded Nov. “Effects of Self-focused Augmented Reality on Health Perceptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Web-Based Between-Subject Experiment.” J Med Internet Res 2021;23(6):e26963.

Lucius EJ Bynum, Joshua R. Loftus, and Julia Stoyanovich. “Impact Remediation: Optimal Interventions to Reduce Inequality.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00593 (2021).

Samrat Acharya, Robert Mieth, Charalambos Konstantinou, Ramesh Karri, and Yury Dvorkin. “Cyber Insurance Against Cyberattacks on Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03954 (2021).

Changhong Fu, Ziang Cao, Yiming Li, Junjie Ye, and Chen Feng. “Onboard Real-Time Aerial Tracking With Efficient Siamese Anchor Proposal Network,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3083880.