Last week, NYU CUSP and The GovLab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering co-hosted a webinar on "Solving Urban Challenges Using Data: Toward a Data Skills Toolkit for Public Employees to Shape the Future."The online event, facilitated by Victoria Alsina, academic… Continue Reading Solving Urban Challenges Using Data: Toward a Data Skills Toolkit for Public Employees to Shape the Future
Congratulations to Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri and Professor Oded Nov, who were recently awarded a new $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for their research on "LEAP-HI: Understanding and Engineering the Ecosystem of Firearms: Prevalence, Safety, and Firearm-Related Harms!"Together… Continue Reading New NSF grant on Understanding and Engineering the Ecosystem of Firearms awarded to Professors Maurizio Porfiri and Oded Nov
NYU CUSP’s Capstone Program brings together student research teams with government agencies, industry, or other research partners to address real-world urban challenges through data. The capstone presentations are the culmination of their six-month projects and mark the final presentation of… Continue Reading Economic Impacts of New York City’s Investment in Water Supply: 2020 Capstone Program
Research Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yury Dvorkin, who was awarded a new Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant for his research on "RETrofitting REsiliency AgainsT COVID-19! (RETREAT COVID-19!)." Professor Dvorkin intends to design a model that can represent infrastructure operations under… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: June 2020
NYU CUSP’s Capstone Program brings together student research teams with government agencies, industry, or other research partners to address real-world urban challenges through data. The capstone presentations are the culmination of their six-month projects and mark the final presentation of… Continue Reading Mapping Sustainable Mobility in NYC Nightlife Culture: 2020 Capstone Program
NYU CUSP’s Capstone Program brings together student research teams with government agencies, industry, or other research partners to address real-world urban challenges through data. The capstone presentations are the culmination of their six-month projects and mark the final presentation of… Continue Reading Urban Dynamics of Bird Migration: 2020 Capstone Program
Spotlight on COVID-19 Four CUSP faculty members- Professors Debra Laefer, Paul Torrens, Maurizio Porfiri, and Constantine Kontokosta- have received National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding to examine the spread and impact of COVID-19 in New York City and other cities… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: May 2020
NYU CUSP Professors Debra Laefer, Paul Torrens, Maurizio Porfiri, and Constantine Kontokosta have begun new research to understand the spread, impact, and threats from COVID-19 facing New York City and other cities worldwide. Recent National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Research Grants… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Faculty Research Responds to COVID-19
Research Visiting scholar Vincent Lostanlen, alongside colleagues from various institutions, has released the second stable version of Kymatio, a software package for wavelet scattering in Python. Compared to its predecessor, Kymatio v0.2 has a greater interoperability with machine learning libraries:… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: April 2020
Congratulations to Professor Debra Laefer, who has been appointed to the editorial board of the Remote Sensing Journal! Remote Sensing is the third highest ranking publication under the topic of remote sensing. More from the CUSP Community
Research Congratulations to NYU Tandon School of Engineering Assistant Professor Anna Choromanska, who was named to the 2020 cohort of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellows for her work in computer science! Professor Choromanska will join 126 early-career scholars who represent the… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: March 2020
Congratulations to NYU Tandon Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Anna Choromanska, who will join the 2020 cohort of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellows! Professor Choromanska will join 126 other early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their… Continue Reading Assistant Professor Anna Choromanska Awarded 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
People Deadline extended to 2/15: NYU CUSP is currently accepting applications for Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associates, with a tentative start date of September 1, 2020. We seek applicants with a strong record of interdisciplinary work in developing and applying concepts and… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: February 2020
People NYU CUSP is currently accepting applications for Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associates, with a tentative start date of September 1, 2020. We seek applicants with a strong record of interdisciplinary work in developing and applying concepts and methods from science,… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: January 2020
Education Our first application deadline for Fall 2020 entry is December 15! Learn more about our graduate programs in Applied Urban Science and Informatics using the following links: Apply: https://apply.cusp.nyu.edu/apply/ Application Guide: https://cusp.nyu.edu/guide Admissions FAQ: https://cusp.nyu.edu/admissions-faq/ Research Congratulations to Professor Maurizio Porfiri, whose… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: December 2019
