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
Please join NYU CUSP and André Corrêa d’Almeida as he discusses “Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate” on Friday, Nov 30th, 2018. He will be joined by Jerry Hultin, President Emeritus of the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, who… Continue Reading Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate
CUSP’s Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG) is pleased to announce their 2nd Speaker Session featuring Shraddha Ramani, the Mitigation Program Manager at NYC Emergency Management. Shraddha will speak to our group about the application of urban data science to prepare… Continue Reading Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG) Speaker Event with Shraddha Ramani
November 1, 2018 Our first AUSG Speaker event will feature Andrew Young, whose research efforts focus on the effect of technology and data-driven policies on public institutions. His grant-funded projects range from the impact of open government data; methods for… Continue Reading Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG): Data Collaboration & Blockchain in Cities with Andrew Young
Download a flyer for the event here! About the Event: IBM Research Africa is IBM’s 12th lab worldwide and is located in both Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa. Research staff members are tasked with tackling Africa’s Grand Challenges while… Continue Reading IBM Research Africa Presents: Mobile Phone-Based Credit Scoring & Pattern Detection on Hidden Layers of Neural Networks
Join NYU CUSP’s Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG) for speaker events and lightning talks this summer! The Applied Urban Science Group is the student and alumni association of NYU CUSP. AUSG events are for all members of CUSP and the… Continue Reading Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG) presents Linking data for the greater good: Entity Resolution, Graph Databases and the EPA Toxic Release Inventory
April 26, 2018 For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. In just a few more decades, 70 percent of the world will live in cities. Enabling those cities to deliver… Continue Reading Kavli Futures Symposium: Sensing the City
October 6, 2017 Please join us for a CUSP seminar with Trevor Bowen, 5th year PhD student (Physics) and NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow (Heliophysics) from the University of California, Berkeley. Extracting Maximal Information from Urban Magnetic Fields Abstract… Continue Reading Research Seminar Series with Trevor Bowen
September 28, 2017 Please join us for a CUSP seminar with Kenneth Steif, Ph.D, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania. Spatial Data Science and City Planning Abstract City planners design, implement and evaluate place-based investments — and have traditionally used data… Continue Reading Research Seminar Series with Kenneth Steif
June 15, 2017 Please join us for a brown bag research seminar with Paul Jensen from The University of Melbourne. Policy Implications of Global Patent Examination Outcomes Abstract Patents play a central role in the global innovation system: providing important incentives for R&D investment decisions… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar Series Brown Bag with Paul Jensen
May 30, 2017 Please join us for a CUSP research seminar to be followed by a networking reception and student Q&A with CUSP alumni Patrick Atwater from ARGO Labs, who serves as project manager for the California Data Collaborative coalition… Continue Reading Research Seminar and Happy Hour with CUSP Alumni Patrick Atwater
May 8, 2017 Join New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress for an exciting research seminar with Professor Zorica Nedovi?-Budi? from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Abstract: Crowd-sourced Data for Urban Planning and Emergency Response: Potential and Value: Since mid-1980s the advances… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Research Seminar with Zorica Nedovi?-Budi?
