- October 8, 2018
People
- Welcome to Paul Horn, NYU’s former Senior Vice Provost for Research, who will be CUSP’s Acting Director through the end of the year.
- Welcome to Amanda Ryley, who has joined us as Interim Associate Director for Administration taking over from Pat. Amanda comes to us from NYU’s Office of Budget and Financial Planning where she is the Assistant Director for Budget and Planning.
- Welcome to Gonen Minuskin, who has joined the Administrative Data Research Facility as Director of Technology.
- Welcome to Laura Vert, who will join us as our Grants Specialist starting October 10. Laura comes to us from the Furman Center where she has served as Development Director and, preceeding that, as Fiscal & Grants Manager.
- Welcome to Xiangyu Wang, a PhD student from NYU Abu Dhabi, who will be working with Prof. Masoud Ghandehari until June, 2019.
- Welcome to Murat Barlas, a Tandon Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) student, and Cyrus Blinkinship, a graduate RA, both of whom will be working with Prof. Laefer.
- CUSP MS students Sam Manzi, Rachel Sim, and Tandon CSE MS student Kedar Potdar will be working with Prof. Paul Torrens as SimSpace RAs. Tandon CSE MS students Anshul Garg, Madhur Biyani, and Shubham Aggarwal will be working with Paul on their theses.
Research
- Prof. Julia Lane is hosting a seminar by Sir Bill English, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, entitled, “The right services for the right people at the right time: A national case study in successful integrated government data” from noon – 2PM, October 24, 2018 at The Puck Building – 295 Lafayette Street, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Floor.
- Debra Laefer delivered a talk, “This technology could transform life in cities,” at the NYS Geospatial Summit.
- Vu Vo is delivering a paper, A 6-dimensional Hilbert approach for indexing full waveform lidar data in a distributed computing environment, at the ISPRS conference in Delft, Netherlands.
- Congratulations to Constantine Kontokosta, who was named a Senior Scholar at the New York Academy of Medicine. He will also be chairing a Civic Analytics and Urban Science “Big Ideas : Civic Analytics & Urban Science” session at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference and presenting a paper on big data applications for gentrification studies.
- Sokratis Papadopoulos to present a paper, “Do Mandatory Building Energy Audits Change Energy Behaviors?,” at the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference
- Bartosz Bonczak and Yuan Lai will be presenting at the MetroLabs Network Annual Summit. Bartosz will be a panelist for the “Programs that Strengthen City/University Partnerships” workshop, and Yuan’s lightning talk will be “Big Data for Local Climate Change.”
- Justin Salamon will be delivering a talk, “Robust Sound Event Detection in Acoustic Sensor Networks,” at the SANE 2018 Speech and Audio in the Northeast conference in Cambridge, MA on October 18th. BirdVox intern Kendra Oudyk will be presenting her internship work, “BirdVox-Imitation: A dataset of human imitations of birdsong with potential for research in psychology and machine listening,” at the same conference. Note: this dataset was collected thanks to the help of 19 CUSP students, faculty, and staff, who were asked to perform vocal imitations of bird songs. Kendra and Vincent Lostanlen would like to thank all participants for devoting some of their time to their research.
Publications
- Bonczak, Bartosz and Constantine E. Kontokosta. 2018. “Large-scale Parameterization of 3D Building Morphology in Complex Urban Landscapes Using Aerial LiDAR and City Administrative Data,” Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, in press.
- Lai, Yuan, and Constantine E. Kontokosta. “Quantifying place: Analyzing the drivers of pedestrian activity in dense urban environments.” Landscape and Urban Planning180 (2018): 166-178.
- Kontokosta, Constantine E., Jeff Merritt, and Sander Dolder. 2018. “Solving City Challenges through Neighborhood Innovation Labs: Moving from Smart Cities to Informed Communities,” in Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate, André Corrêa d’Almeida, ed. New York: Columbia University Press
- Kontokosta, Constantine E., Yuan Lai, Bartosz Bonczak, Sokratis Papadopoulos, Boyeong Hong, Awais Malik, and Nicholas Johnson. 2018. “A Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Model of Urban Carbon Emissions for Data-Driven Climate Action by Cities,” Proceedings of the 2018 Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange Conference, New York, NY.
- Kontokosta, Constantine E. and Boyeong Hong. 2018. “Who Calls for Help? Statistical Evidence of Disparities in Citizen-Government Interactions Using Geospatial Survey and 311 Data from Kansas City,” Proceedings of the 2018 Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange Conference, New York, NY.
- Zhu, Enwei, Maham Khan, Philipp Kats, Shreya Santosh Bamne, and Stanislav Sobolevsky. “Digital Urban Sensing: A Multi-layered Approach.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01280 (2018). Note: Stan’s co-authors are CUSP Masters alumni.
- Zhu, Enwei, and Stanislav Sobolevsky. “House Price Modeling with Digital Census.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03834 (2018).
- Sobolevsky, Stanislav, Ekaterina Levitskaya, Henry Chan, Marc Postle, and Constantine Kontokosta. “Impact Of Bike Sharing In New York City.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06606(2018).
- Sobolevsky, Stanislav. “On The Painleve Property For A Class Of Quasilinear Partial Differential Equations.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03640 (2018).
- Lostanlen, Vincent, Grégoire Lafay, Joakim Andén, and Mathieu Lagrange. “Relevance-based quantization of scattering features for unsupervised mining of environmental audio.” EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing2018, no. 1 (2018): 15.
- Lostanlen, Vincent, “Eigentriads and Eigenprogressions on the Tonnetz,” Proceedings of the Late-Breaking / Demo session (LBD) of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). September 2018, Paris, France. arxiv: 1810.00790 (2018).
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