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
People The New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering invites applications for a cluster of tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2020 at the rank of Assistant Professor. The focus of these positions is urban science and engineering, with each… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: November 2019
People The New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering invites applications for a cluster of tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2020 at the rank of Assistant Professor. The focus of these positions is urban science and engineering,… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: October 2019
MS Student Yusu Qian recently gave a lightning talk at the 2019 West Coast NLP Summit at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California! Yusu discussed her research on “Gender Stereotypes Differ between Male and Female Writings,” a paper she wrote last semester… Continue Reading MS student Yusu Qian gives lightning talk at 2019 West Coast NLP Summit
Research SONYC participated in the ARISE program again this year, which resulted in several successful projects. Director of CUSP Juan Bello and Research Scientist Mark Cartwright mentored Marin Hyatt from Hunter College High School. Marin worked on "Trucking in Relation to Noise… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: September 2019
Research Assistant Professor Yury Dvorkin recently carried out a study on the vulnerability of urban power grids to cyberattacks on electric vehicles, discovering that you only need to hack 1000 Teslas to cause a major power outage and harm the grid.… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: August 2019
Research Associate Professor Daniel Neill recently gave an invited plenary talk on "Machine Learning and Event Detection for Population Health" at the 2nd Annual Conference on Machine Learning for Science and Engineering. The conference highlighted advances in research that utilize… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: July 2019
Rufei Sheng and Zhu WangNYU CUSP Graduate Student Rufei Sheng is part of a winning team for the NYU 2nd Annual Innovators in Aging Award!The NYU Aging Incubator invited students to submit innovative ideas for tools or resources that would significantly… Continue Reading Graduate Student Rufei Sheng Wins NYU 2nd Annual Innovators in Aging Award
Congratulations to NYU CUSP Professor Debra Laefer, whose paper "Laser scan-based structural assessment of wrought iron bridges: Guinness Bridge, Ireland" was awarded the Manby Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 2019 Publishing Awards! The 2019 ICE Publishing Awards… Continue Reading Paper by Professor Debra Laefer awarded the 2019 Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Publishing Awards Manby Prize
Research Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hénaff was recently selected for The Marron Institute’s Second Annual Seed Grant Award for her proposal on “The Impact of Flooding on the Urban Microbiome and City Residents’ Exposure to Sewage Pathogens.” The research team, which… Continue Reading What’s Happening at CUSP: June 2019
Yusu Qian Urwa Muaz Two papers by NYU CUSP Class of 2019 Graduate students were accepted by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2019 Student Research Workshop!Yusu Qian and Urwa Muaz's paper "Reducing Gender Bias in Word-Level Language Models Using a… Continue Reading Papers by CUSP Graduate Students Yusu Qian and Urwa Muaz accepted at 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics Student Research Workshop
Postdoctoral Researcher Vincent Lostanlen recently spoke at “Artificial Intelligence in Audio Processing: Applications, Advancements, and Trends," an event featuring speakers who explored recent advancements in AI and deep learning for audio, as well as the impact this work will have on the future… Continue Reading Birdvox Machine Listening for Bird Migration Monitoring with Postdoctoral Researcher Vincent Lostanlen
Eve Marenghi MS Class of 2019 Hometown: Westchester, NY Degree: Urban Informatics, M.S. What was your journey to your master’s degree like? I earned my undergraduate degree in math at the University of Virginia and embarked on a career as… Continue Reading Made in Brooklyn with MS Class of 2019 Candidate Eve Marenghi
On May 29th, please join NYU CUSP Associate Professor Daniel Neill, Assistant Professor Ravi Shroff, Affiliated Faculty Professor Beth Simone Noveck, and Class of 2014 Alum Alex Chohlas-Wood at the Data & Ethics: In the Public Sector for the Public Good Conference!Wednesday… Continue Reading Join CUSP Faculty & Alumni at the NYU Data & Ethics: In the Public Sector for the Public Good Conference
