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What’s Happening at CUSP: February 2018
People Welcome to Renato Assunção from the Computer Science Department at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horzonte, Brazil, who will be working with Prof. Daniel Neill through the month of February. They are working on a paper together for… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: February 2018
What’s Happening at CUSP: January 2018
People Congratulations to Debra Laefer, who was selected as a member of the American Delegation for the USA-Russia Symposium in May 2018 hosted by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Russian Society for Soil Mechanics,… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: January 2018
What’s Happening at CUSP: December 2017
People Welcome to Ray Mohabir, a Tandon Undergrad who is working as a Digital Video Production Assistant with Debra Laefer. He is producing a digital video fly through of the O’Connell Street area of the 2015 LiDAR Dataset. Welcome to… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: December 2017
What’s Happening at CUSP: November 2017
People Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, will visit us for the week of November 6 as part of her Fulbright Global Scholar award. Huy Vo will have two visiting students joining… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: November 2017
NYCx Challenge Program Seeks Creative Technology Solutions for Urban Life
New York City has launched NYCx, a program that invites both local and global entrepreneurs, start up companies, and community organizations to use New York City as a testing ground for ideas and technologies that can positively impact all New Yorkers. Continue Reading NYCx Challenge Program Seeks Creative Technology Solutions for Urban Life
Structure of 311 service requests as a signature of urban location
While urban systems demonstrate high spatial heterogeneity, many urban planning, economic and political decisions heavily rely on a deep understanding of local neighborhood contexts. Continue Reading Structure of 311 service requests as a signature of urban location
What’s Happening at CUSP: October 2017
People Welcome to Ashley Joyner, our Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School work study student. Welcome to Nicolas Jeanrenaud, who will start as an Associate Research Scientist with the Data Facility. Three of our Master’s students – Jack Lundquist, Emily Hansen,… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: October 2017
What’s Happening at CUSP: September 2017
People Congratulations to Ravi Shroff, a member of CUSP’s first cohort, who was recently hired as an Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics in Steinhart’s Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities. Welcome to Bill Press, who starts his sabbatical… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: September 2017
Identifying And Modeling The Structural Discontinuities Of Human Interactions
January 14, 2019 New research by NYU CUSP Professor Stanislav Sobolevsky and CUSP researchers examines “Identifying and modeling the structural discontinuities of human interactions” in Nature Magazine. ABSTRACT The idea of a hierarchical spatial organization of society lies at the core… Continue Reading Identifying And Modeling The Structural Discontinuities Of Human Interactions
SONYC Is A NYC BigApps 2015 Finalist!
On November 11, BigApps NYC 2015 announced that CUSP’s researchers, Charlie Mydlarz and Justin Salamon have made it through to the competition’s finals. Their submission, the SONYC project has been selected as one of the finalists in the Connected Cities category. Continue Reading SONYC Is A NYC BigApps 2015 Finalist!