Abdullah Kurkcu is responsible for leading transportation research projects and developing web-based data management solutions at the center. He completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at NYU and previously received his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Istanbul University and master's degree in Transportation Engineering from Florida State University. His

Ana Elisa is a doctoral student in the MIR group under the direction of Dr. Juan Pablo Bello. She received her Master's degree in Music Technology from NYU Steinhardt in 2015 and a B.S. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. She is also a classically trained pianist.

Bartosz "Bart" Bonczak is a Research Scientist at CUSP working with Quantified Community and Building Informatics Group. His research interests focus on building energy use and the analysis of urban topology ... More

Bea Steers is a researcher working on SONYC and related research projects. She has an M.S. in Urban Science and Informatics from NYU CUSP (2018), and a B.S.E. in Acoustical Engineering and Music from the University of Hartford (2017). She decided to change course from UoH’s well-paved acoustical consulting tracks

Boyeong Hong is a PhD candidate in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, as well as a research affiliate of Dr. Constantine Kontokosta's Civic Analytics Program at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. Her research interests focus on how to apply urban informatics to real world problems in urban

Charlie Mydlarz is a Senior Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor at NYU CUSP and the Music and Audio Research Laboratory. He works on the development and implementation of cyberphysical systems for large scale, high ... More

Chenglu Jin is a smart cities postdoctoral associate at NYU CUSP. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Connecticut in 2019. Before that, he got his master degree from NYU in 2014. During his Ph.D. study, he spent a summer in the Singapore University of Technology and

Fabio Miranda is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science department at NYU. He obtained his Ph.D. from NYU in 2018, advised by Prof. Claudio T. Silva. In conjunction with his Ph.D., Fabio has completed internships at Argonne National Lab, IBM Research, AT&T Labs Research, and Sandia National Labs. He

Graham Dove is a Research Assistant Professor with an interest in participatory design methods for working with challenging materials such as personal data and machine learning. He is currently working on SONYC (Sounds of New York City) an NSF funded interdisciplinary research project at NYU in Brooklyn. SONYC is researching

Jason Cramer is currently a PhD candidate in the Music and Audio Research Laboratory studying Electrical and Computer Engineering, under the direction of Juan Pablo Bello. Jason obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from U.C. Berkeley in 2015, where he completed the EECS Honors program with a

João Rulff is a computer science PhD student at NYU Tandon School of Engineering since 2019, under the supervision of Professor Claudio Silva. He mainly focuses his research on large scale data-analytics working in projects like ARIES and SONYC. He worked as a Research Associate at VIDA Lab-NYU and

John Pamplin is a Smart Cities Postdoc with NYU CUSP, as well as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, under the office of the Provost. John received his Ph.D. in 2020 and his M.P.H. in 2014, both from the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He

Junaid Ahmed Khan is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), New York University. Prior to this, he was a research fellow at the DRONES and Smart City research clusters at the FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis from January 2018 to August

Kim Mahler is a Smart Cities Postdoc affiliated to both NYU CUSP and NYU WIRELESS. His research interests involve the development of viable 5G applications, drone/vehicular communications, localization using 5G millimeter wave and user-centric innovation developments. He received the M.Sc. degree with honors and the Dr.-Ing. degree (magna cum laude)

Magdalena Fuentes is an assistant professor/Dean’s fellow with a joint appointment between Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the Tandon School of Engineering. She obtained a BEng in Electrical Engineering at Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, in 2015 and a PhD in Music Information Retrieval in

Mahin Salman is a Brooklyn based multimedia installation artist. Her work explores physical computing, human computer interaction, third culture identity, gender, mental health, memory and cognition. Her most recent work was featured at the Rubin Museum of Art as part of the "World is Sound" Exhibit. She is currently developing

Mark Cartwright is a Research Assistant Professor in NYU’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a Research Scientist at the Center for Urban Science and Progress, and a member of the Music and Audio Research Lab.

Martina Balestra is a Smart Cities postdoctoral research associate at NYU CUSP. She completed her PhD from NYU in 2019, M.S. from Cornell University in 2014, and B.S. from the Olin College of Engineering in 2010. From 2010 to 2012 she worked at the MITRE Corporation as a Systems Engineer.

Nick Feng received the B.S. degree from Binghamton University, State University of New York, New York, NY, USA, in 2013, and the M.S. degree from New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA, in 2016, both in electrical engineering. Currently, he is a PhD candidate joint appointed in Center for Urban Science

Dr. Sheng Wang got his Ph.D. from RMIT University, Australia in 2019. He got his master and bachelor degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 2016 and 2013, respectively. His research interests are mainly on the spatial database, especially trajectory data management. Since 2016, he has published

Vincent Lostanlen is a Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher affiliated to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and is currently visiting both the MARL and NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). In 2013, he graduated jointly from Télecom ParisTech and from Ircam, with a focus on Acoustics, Signal Processing,

Yu Wang is a PhD student in the Music Informatics group under the direction of Dr. Juan P. Bello. She holds two M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015) and National Taiwan University (NTU) (2012), and a B.S. in Physics from NTU (2010). She

Yurii Piadyk received his B.S. and M.Sc. in High Energy Physics from The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2016) and is pursuing PhD degree in Computer Science from New York University under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Silva. He is working as research assistant in Visualization and Data Analytics