January 10, 2025
C2SMARTER Center at NYU Tandon continues its efforts to build international transportation research and education collaborations with NYU’s Global campuses. Towards this global partnership goal, for a second time in the last two years, the 8th NYU Abu Dhabi Transportation Symposium was held in New York City at Washington Square on Friday, January 10, with the support of C2SMARTER Center.
The theme of this year’s symposium was Transportation and AI: Opportunities and Challenges. The daylong forum served as a platform for collaboration among scholars and researchers active in fields relevant to AI in transportation.
NYU Tandon Professors Kaan Ozbay and Joseph Chow helped to convene the symposium, in support of NYUAD faculty Samer Madanat, Monica Menendez, and Saif Jabari.
Tandon Profs. Eugene Vinitsky and Takahiro Yabe both presented their research; Prof. Vinitsky presented his work on evaluating autonomous systems while Prof. Yabe discussed his research on predicting human mobility patterns. Other presenters represented institutions such as MIT, UC Berkeley, and University of Florida and explored AI related themes such as neural networks, climate disasters, and real-time traffic prediction. C2SMARTER student researchers also presented posters of their work during the lunch break.
C2SMARTER continues to work diligently to build research and education initiatives with KAIST researchers, many of whom were in attendance. This symposium was another opportunity to bring KAIST transportation researchers together with NYU transportation faculty based in both New York City and Abu Dhabi campuses.
The day brought together faculty and students who are usually separated by distance but who share very close research interests. The exchange of ideas helps not only to strengthen the connections between the researchers but also to improve the future of AI in transportation overall.
Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in this year’s symposium! s