- May 14, 2021
Research
- Congratulations to Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri, who has received the 2021 NYU Tandon Excellence in Research Award for his outstanding research performance, exceptional publication record, mentorship work, and industry impact!
- While both masks and social distancing help slow the spread of airborne pathogens, a new study by Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri shows that viral outbreaks can be prevented if at least 60% of a population complies with both measures.
- In a new study, “Modeling human migration under environmental change: a case study of the effect of sea level rise in Bangladesh,” researchers led by Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri applied data science to predict how the cascading effects of the migration in Bangladesh will ultimately affect 1.3 million people across the country by 2050. The work has implications for coastal populations worldwide.
- Congratulations to Joseph Chow, who has been promoted to Associate Professor!
- Associate Professor Joseph Chow has joined the Transportation Research Part B Editorial Board as an Editor! Transportation Research: Part B publishes papers on all methodological aspects of the subject, particularly those that require mathematical analysis.
- Congratulations to Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate Eric Corbett, who was awarded the Mellon ACLS Fellowship to support ongoing research on public engagement with AI in NYC. This funding amplifies public facing, socially relevant scholarship between universities and public entities. The specific project Eric is working on is a collaboration between Queens Public Library and NYU’s Center for Responsible AI that is looking at how to provide AI educational programs as well as exploring the design of new modes of public engagement with public sector AI in the city.
- Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate Eric Corbett presented a paper on “Designing Civic Technology with Trust” at the CHI 2021 Conference, the premier venue for Human Computer-Interaction Research. Eric’s research presents a new way of thinking about trust in civic technology that goes beyond efficiency and transactionality to consider design approaches centered around closing distance in civic relationships between the public and their government.
- Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate Eric Corbett also began a fellowship at the NYC Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer. He will be working within the CTO office on AI policy in NYC government, as well defining equity in applied machine learning projects. This fellowship will allow Eric to better understand the governmental landscape and directly connect his research agenda at CUSP.
- Professor Debra Laefer’s summer research program will be welcoming 4 students from Tandon’s ARISE program to involve promising high school students in research and 4 students from Tandon’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
- Professor Debra Laefer is an invited panelist to ESRI/Crain’s event “Real-Time Intelligence Now: How NYC executives Can Improve Efficiency and Operations” on June 17th. Professor Laefer will discuss what’s next in GIS technology for city leaders in New York and beyond.
- The GovLab published a new episode of The GovLab Collective Intelligence podcast. This latest installment interviews Haris Biskos who leads synAthina, an online-offline public platform where the City of Athens supports citizens in developing and implementing projects that improve the quality of life in the city.
- Until May 21, The GovLab is accepting applications for a new course through our Data Stewards Academy: “Developing a Data Reuse Strategy for Solving Public Problems.” You can learn more and apply here.
- On April 23, The GovLab celebrated the first anniversary of the Open Data Policy Lab, in partnership with Microsoft, and announced “A Selection of Activities, Achievements, and Future Priorities” for this next year. You can read more here.
Publications
- Martínez-Alés, G., Pamplin, J.R., Rutherford, C. et al. “Age, period, and cohort effects on suicide death in the United States from 1999 to 2018: moderation by sex, race, and firearm involvement.” Mol Psychiatry (2021).
- Dakic, I., Yang, K., Menendez, M. and Chow, J.Y., 2021. “On the design of an optimal flexible bus dispatching system with modular bus units: Using the three-dimensional macroscopic fundamental diagram.”Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 148, pp.38-59.
- Wang, D., He, B.Y., Gao, J., Chow, J.Y., Ozbay, K.and Iyer, S., 2021. “Impact of COVID-19 behavioral inertia on reopening strategies for New York City Transit.” International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology.
- , , & (2021). “Modeling human migration under environmental change: A case study of the effect of sea level rise in Bangladesh.” Earth’s Future, 9, e2020EF001931.
- Lea Tøttrup, S. Farokh Atashzar,Dario Farina, Ernest Nlandu Kamavuako and Winnie Jensen. “Altered evoked low-frequency connectivity from SI to ACC following nerve injury in rats.” Journal of Neural Engineering, 2021.
- Soroosh Shahtalebi, S. Farokh Atashzar, Rajni V. Patel, Mandar S. Jog, and Arash Mohammadi. “A deep explainable artificial intelligent framework for neurological disorders discrimination.” Sci Rep 11, 9630 (2021).
- Qian Ye, Xiaohong Chen, Hua Zhang, Junjie Cai, and Kaan Ozbay. “Demonstration of Participation Networks in Urban Transport Policy of Public and Private Sectors through Social Media: The Case of Bike-Sharing Pricing Strategy in China.” Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 2021, Article ID 8881106, 15 pages, 2021.
- Zohreh Zahiri, Debra F. Laefer, and Aoife Gowen. “Characterizing building materials using multispectral imagery and LiDAR intensity data.” Journal of Building Engineering, 2021, 102603, ISSN 2352-7102.
- Farah, I., Rezaiguia, A., Mouassa, A., Laefer, D.,Guenfoud, S. (2021). “Free vibration analysis of multi-span orthotropic bridge deck with rubber bearings.”Diagnostyka 22.
- Shemshadian, M.E., Schultz, A.E., Le, J.L., Laefer, D.F.,Al-Sabah, S., McGetrick, P., (2021). “Structural mechanics characterization of steel intermeshed connection using nonlinear finite element analysis.”Engineering Structures, 238, July, p.112264.
- Stanley, M.H. and Laefer, D.F.(2021). “Metrics for aerial, urban lidar point clouds.”ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 175, pp. 268-281.
- Siyuan Xiang, Ruoyu Wang, and Chen Feng. “Mobile projective augmented reality for collaborative robots in construction.” Automation in Construction, Volume 127, 2021, 103704, ISSN 0926-5805.
- 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 Between-Subject Web-Based Experiment.” J Med Internet Res.2021 Apr 16. doi: 10.2196/26963. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33878017.
- Juntao Chen, Yunhan Huang, Rui Zhang, and Quanyan Zhu. “Optimal Curing Strategy for Competing Epidemics Spreading over Complex Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, doi: 10.1109/TSIPN.2021.3075338.
- Juan Miguel Morales, Salvador Pineda, and Yury Dvorkin. “Learning-based Coordination of Transmission and Distribution Operations.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06100 (2021).
- Brandon M. Behring, Alessandro Rizzo, and Maurizio Porfiri. “How adherence to public health measures shapes epidemic spreading: A temporal network model.” Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science31, 043115 (2021).
- Devansh Bisla, Apoorva Nandini Saridena, and Anna Choromanska. “A Theoretical-Empirical Approach to Estimating Sample Complexity of DNNs.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01867 (2021).
- Hong, B., Bonczak, B. J., Gupta, A., Thorpe, L. E., & Kontokosta, C. E. (2021). “Exposure density and neighborhood disparities in COVID-19 infection risk. ” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(13).
- Kontokosta, C. E., Freeman, L., & Lai, Y. (2021). “Up-and-Coming or Down-and-Out? Social Media Popularity as an Indicator of Neighborhood Change.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X21998445.
- Kontokosta, C. E., & Hong, B. (2021). “Bias in smart city governance: How socio-spatial disparities in 311 complaint behavior impact the fairness of data-driven decisions.” Sustainable Cities and Society, 64, 102503.
- Hong, B., Bonczak, B. J., Gupta, A., & Kontokosta, C. E. (2021). “Measuring inequality in community resilience to natural disasters using large-scale mobility data.” Nature communications, 12(1), 1-9.
Press
- Research highlights the disparate impact of mobility behavior on COVID-19 infection risk for vulnerable communities (NYU Tandon Newsroom)
- Tide of climate refugees swells as Earth heats up (Climate News Network)
- Twice as good: combining mask wearing, social distancing suppresses COVID-19 virus spread (NYU Tandon Newsroom)
- Colonial Pipeline hack highlights grid disruption risks even with IT-focused cyberattack, analysts say (Utility Dive)
- City Gone Silent: How the sounds of New York City changed in the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic (Scholastic Magazine)
- NYU Tandon’s Faculty First-Look initiative is a win-win for grad students and schools (NYU Tandon Newsroom)
Education
- NEW PROGRAM: NYU CUSP’s Online Advanced Certificate can be completed from anywhere in the world, personalized to your busy schedule, and is offered at a 50% tuition discount to qualified individuals, to help meet this critical urban moment. Apply by June 1!
- Congratulations to the winners of this year’s 2021 Commencement and Achievement Awards! 18 CUSP Master’s candidates were honored for their impressive academic achievements, research initiatives, and other accomplishments from their time at CUSP.
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