Category: Past Events

April 23, 2019 Professor Maloney will give a detailed ‘walk through’ of the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST), a child welfare predictive risk model (PRM) built by an international team led by the Centre for Social Data Analytics (CSDA). Since it… Continue Reading Predictive Analytics for Child Welfare: A Case Study from Allegheny County, PA with Professor Tim Maloney, Auckland University of Technology

Data and AI in Cities: An Inside Perspective of Analytics in the NYC Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) April 19, 2019 Ever since the creation of NYC's Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) in 2013 through executive order, many… Continue Reading Data and AI in Cities: An Inside Perspective of Analytics at NYC MODA with Amen Ra Mashariki, Head of Urban Intelligence at UrbInt.com

Without Smart Planning, Can We Truly Have a Smart City? April 12, 2019 Abstract: New York City’s former Chief Urban Designer Alexandros Washburn shows how three hero’s of urban planning shaped New York and with Dana Chermesh, Director of Urban Data… Continue Reading Without Smart Planning, Can We Truly Have a Smart City? with DRAW Brooklyn

Improving Transparency at MTA New York City Transit Using Service Performance Dashboards April 5, 2019 On June 29, 2017, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority… Continue Reading Improving Transparency at MTA New York City Transit Using Service Performance Dashboards with Alla Reddy, MTA

The Resiliency of Pittsburgh March 29, 2019 From its previous history as the center of steelmaking and heavy industry, Pittsburgh has emerged as a cosmopolitan center of technology, entrepreneurship and education. As part of the direction of improving the environment… Continue Reading The Resiliency of Pittsburgh with Grant Ervin, Chief Resiliency Officer of Pittsburgh PA

NSF’s Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart and Connected Communities Programs March 15, 2019 Abstract: This talk will explore the NSF programs of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) and their respective visions, details of the solicitations regarding submissions of… Continue Reading NSF’s Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart and Connected Communities Programs with Jonathan Sprinkle, National Science Foundation

https://vimeo.com/332852658 Data Science for Smart Grids and Beyond March 13, 2019 Abstract: This tutorial presentation will describe cutting-edge decision-making problems that arise in the area of smart electric power grids. These problems are motivated by the recent technological advances in… Continue Reading Data Science for Smart Grids and Beyond with Yury Dvorkin, NYU Tandon

Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit February 20, 2019 We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the… Continue Reading Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit with Michael Luca, HBS

https://vimeo.com/318257172 Can Neural Networks Learn Paper Folding? February 19, 2019 Abstract: It is always fun to learn paper-folding/zhezhi/origami, the art of turning a piece of paper into a 3D shape. It is even more fun to do so with a… Continue Reading Can Neural Networks Learn Paper Folding? with Dr. Chen Feng, NYU Tandon

https://vimeo.com/316827527 Holobiont Urbanism: Towards Metrics for Smart Cities that Span Scales and Species February 8, 2019 Abstract: In the era of computational genomics, a great deal of progress has been made in determining the relationships between genetic information and the development… Continue Reading Holobiont Urbanism: Towards Metrics for Smart Cities that Span Scales and Species with Dr. Elizabeth Henaff, NYU Tandon