Researchers led by Maurizio Porfiri, an engineer at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, are using data science to predict how the cascading effects of the migration in Bangladesh will ultimately affect… Continue Reading Implications are global in new study predicting Human exodus in Bangladesh due to sea-level rise

While both masks and social distancing help slow the spread of airborne pathogens, a new study by Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri shows that viral outbreaks can be prevented if at least 60% of a population complies with both measures (press release… Continue Reading Twice as good: combining mask wearing, social distancing suppresses COVID-19 virus spread

How the sounds of New York City changed in the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic: featuring research from the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project (via Scholastic Magazine). As you read, think about what sounds you hear in your own community. VROOM! A car roars along a busy street. RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT! A worker cracks the pavement open with a jackhammer. WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO! An ambulance blares its sirens. These are the sounds you’ll hear in a big city. The hustle and bustle is exciting. But excessive noise, called noise pollution, can harm people’s health. In 2016, researchers at New York University began studying noise pollution in New York City (NYC) using high-tech sensors. The project, called Sounds of New York City (SONYC), aims to pinpoint where loud sounds are coming from so something can be done to quiet them down. During the project’s first four years, the sensors picked up sounds from things like traffic, roadwork, and street musicians. But in the spring of 2020, NYC became quiet. That’s because schools, stores, and offices closed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This event, together with other data the researchers had collected, revealed new insights into NYC’s sounds.   Keep Reading Recent News

The Floodsense Project was named the MetroLab Innovation of the Month, which highlights impactful tech, data and innovation projects underway between cities and universities. Congratulations! (via Government Technology). Work in New York City collects systematic data on street-level flooding, partnering with… Continue Reading Data Project May Drive Policy for Hyperlocal Flooding in NYC

NYU Tandon researchers, including Institute Professor & Director of Doctoral Studies Maurizio Porfiri, join collaboration with Politecnico di Torino revealing that after spread, travel bans are of limited value in thwarting the spread of COVID-19 (Press Release via NYU Tandon… Continue Reading New discoveries on the containment of COVID-19 finds travel bans are of limited value

A new paper on “Understanding spatial patterns in rape reporting delays” by Associate Professor Daniel B. Neill, Visiting PhD Student Konstantin Klemmer, and Stephen A. Jarvis is featured by Cosmos Magazine. Reporting sexual assault is a very sensitive and nuanced matter, and identifying… Continue Reading Why are reports of sexual assault delayed?

A research team led by NYU CUSP and NYU Tandon Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri has developed a new theory & simulation platform that could prove invaluable in the fight against COVID-19 (Press Release via NYU Tandon School of Engineering). BROOKLYN, New York,… Continue Reading New COVID-19 model shows little benefit in prioritizing high-risk individuals for vaccination

Research by Juan Pablo Bello, Director of CUSP, and Justin Salamon, Research Scientist at Adobe Research and former Senior Research Scientist at CUSP, has won the 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society (SPS) Signal Processing Letters Best… Continue Reading NYU Tandon research to advance environmental sound classification wins IEEE Best Paper Award

NYU Tandon interviews Assistant Professor Luis Ceferino, CUSP’s newest faculty member beginning in January 2021 (via NYU Tandon). New faculty member Luis Ceferino is exploring novel ways to model natural disasters The magnitude-7 earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, the superstorm… Continue Reading Earth-shaking expertise

NYU Tandon interviews Assistant Professor Qi Sun, CUSP’s newest faculty member beginning in January 2021 (via NYU Tandon). Qi Sun, a joint professor in Computer Science and Engineering and the Center for Urban Science and Progress, has a mission: to create computer graphics… Continue Reading Qi Sun is expanding the AR/VR experience

The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) Project is collaborating with Loft to develop a rugged, easy to install IIOT (Industrial Internet Of Things) urban noise collection network meter (via Loft LL). Setting the Scene New York is a city that truly never… Continue Reading Bringing Some Peace and Quiet to the City That Never Sleeps

A new article examines the recent NSF Rapid Research Award by CUSP Professor Debra Laefer that observes individual behaviors outside of COVID-19 hotspots (via Medical Xpress). In March, just as New York City began a strict lockdown, a team of 16… Continue Reading Researchers release 3-D data tracking human interactions outside of coronavirus hotspots

Brooklyn Paper explores a new partnership between NYU CUSP, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), and urban tech startups Walkspan and Aclima. Take a whiff of that! A group of researchers is planning to measure the air quality, walkability, and traffic patterns in Downtown… Continue Reading Researchers to Study Air Quality, Traffic, and Walkability in Downtown Brooklyn

A new partnership between NYU CUSP, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), and urban tech startups Walkspan and Aclima will use Downtown Brooklyn as a testing ground for technology that has the potential to make cities more livable (via Downtown Brooklyn Partnership). Downtown Brooklyn… Continue Reading Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Announces Latest Living Lab Cohort to Pilot Smart City Technologies