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Prof. Daniel Neill announced as runner up of DHS Hidden Signals Challenge
Congratulations to NYU CUSP’s Daniel Neill & CMU Heinz College’s Mallory Nobles, who were announced as runner-ups in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Hidden Signals Challenge! The prize competition, issued in collaboration with the Office of… Continue Reading Prof. Daniel Neill announced as runner up of DHS Hidden Signals Challenge
Professor Debra Laefer attends US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering
On May 17 – 18th at the US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering in St. Petersburg, Professor Debra Laefer spoke on Vertical Data Integration for Tunneling and met with leaders in geotechnology from both the US and Russia. She was… Continue Reading Professor Debra Laefer attends US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering
What’s Happening at CUSP: May 2018
People Welcome to Jeffrey Friedman, who will be working with Julia Lane as the Director of Operations and Business Development for the Coleridge Initiative at NYU from now until October 31, 2018. Congratulations to Nick Jones who has been awarded… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: May 2018
Professor Cordell Schachter named to Government Technology’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers
April 9, 2018 Congratulations to NYU CUSP Professor Cordell Schachter, who was named to Government Technology News‘ Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers! Prof. Schachter was honored for his work as the NYC Department of Transportation Chief Technology Officer. Cordell Schachter… Continue Reading Professor Cordell Schachter named to Government Technology’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers
What’s Happening at CUSP: April 2018
People Welcome Julien Baur, our new Postdoctoral Associate, who will be working with Drs. Greg Dobler and Federica Bianco as part of the Urban Observatory (UO) team. Julien is an accomplished cosmologist skilled in data science tools and their applications… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: April 2018
Announcing: data.tale()
April 3, 2018 Welcome to data.tale()! data.tale() is a collection of stories written and researched by members of the CUSP community. These stories showcase the myriad ways that data can be used to better understand the world around us. As part… Continue Reading Announcing: data.tale()
NYU CUSP Professors Awarded the Marron Institute’s Inaugural Seed Grant Award
March 6, 2018 Professor Constantine Kontokosta Professor Daniel Neill Congratulations to NYU CUSP Professors Constantine Kontokosta and Daniel Neill, who have been awarded the Marron Institute’s inaugural seed grant award for their proposal “Making Local Governments’ Housing Quality Maintenance Systems Fairer and More… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Professors Awarded the Marron Institute’s Inaugural Seed Grant Award
Graduate student Tarek Arafat (MS 19) explores “Monitoring-Based Demand-Side Operations for NYC Agencies”
March 1, 2018 Tarek Arafat- MS Class of 2019 & Program Manager at the NYC DCAS Energy Management (DEM)- recently co-authored an article in BuildingEnergy Magazine by NESEA! The article, titled “Scale it Up: Monitoring-Based Demand-Side Operations for NYC Agencies, ”… Continue Reading Graduate student Tarek Arafat (MS 19) explores “Monitoring-Based Demand-Side Operations for NYC Agencies”
What’s Happening at CUSP: March 2018
People Welcome to Mario Graniero, a visiting scholar from Sapienza Universita di Roma. He will be here at CUSP through September working with Prof. Masoud Ghandehari. Research Congratulations to Zohreh (Mina) Zahiri, one of Prof. Debra Laefer’s UCD students, who… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: March 2018
Investigating the Effect of Sound-Event Loudness on Crowdsourced Audio Annotations
February 26, 2018 How well do people label soft sounds in audio data? Does it depend on factors other than loudness, such as the type of sound? Does it matter for training/evaluating machine learning models? NYU CUSP Senior Research Scientist… Continue Reading Investigating the Effect of Sound-Event Loudness on Crowdsourced Audio Annotations