Project Description
Research Outcomes/Impacts
New York University Mentors
Kaan Ozbay, PhD
Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering & Director, C2SMARTER
Joseph Chow, PHD
Associate Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering & Deputy Director, C2SMARTER
Research Interests:
Development of simulation models of large scale complex transportation systems, advanced technology and sensing applications for Intelligent Transportation Systems, modeling and evaluation of traffic incident and emergency management systems, feedback based on-line real-time traffic control techniques, traffic safety, application of operations research techniques in network optimization and humanitarian inventory control, and transportation economics
Essential Skills Recommended:
Data analysis or basic coding knowledge preferred
Examples of Expected Research Outputs:
Literature review, data analysis, data visualization, modeling
Read more about Prof. Ozbay. and his UrbanMITS lab.
Research Interests:
Transportation systems, multimodal networks, behavioral urban logistics, smart cities, transport economics, behavioral urban informatics, logistics
Essential Skills Recommended:
Basic modeling and data analysis knowledge preferred
Expected Research Output:
Basic mathematical modeling, literature review, data analysis, data visualization
Read more about Prof. Chow and his BUILT @ NYU lab.
Frank Darconte, RA
RESEARCH PROFESSOR, CIVIL AND URBAN ENGINEERING
Semiha Ergan, phd
Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
City and regional planning, civil engineering, architectural technology, research-driven initiatives, engineering and construction management; practice-based and theoretical expertise in construction project delivery focused on the building of collaborative, high-performance teams
Essential Skills Recommended:
Basic modeling and survey-related skills are preferred, but not required
Expected Research Output:
Survey-based data analysis
Potential Research Project(s) for the Research Cohort
Explore permitting large-scale capital projects in New York State
Read more about Prof. Darconte.
Research Interests:
Building informatics, information modeling and visualization, construction automation, urban sustainability, AI/data analytics for civil infrastructure systems
Essential Skills Recommended:
Basic coding knowledge and basic understanding of machine learning concepts are preferred
Expected Research Output:
Posters, conference papers, working papers, snippets of codes, etc.
Potential Research Project(s) for the Research Cohort:
A Computer Vision based approach to detect defects on urban building façades.
Data-driven Building and Urban Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Cities
Sensor-enabled Calibration of VR-integrated co-simulation Platforms for Enhanced Accuracy in Multi-modal Mobility Models
AI-based semantic generative design models for architectural layout design
Intelligent Wearable Warning Devices for Improving Roadway Worker Safety
Read more about Prof. Ergan and her biLAB.
Daniel Vignon, PHD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CIVIL AND URBAN ENGINEERING
Eugene Vinitsky, phd
Assistant Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering
Research Interests:
Transportation economics, ride-hailing systems, smart-infrastructure, automated driving systems; design, regulation and operation of emerging mobility services and of smart infrastructure systems; models and analysis of the interactions of systems with different markets; impact on social welfare, and designs policies to maximize welfare
Essential Skills Recommended:
Multivariable calculus with A- or better (required); Thermodynamics/Heat Transfer and/or Fluid Mechanics with A- or better (recommended); experience with a programming or scripting language (recommended)
Expected Research Output:
Literature review and/or mathematical/computer modeling, data analysis
Read more about Prof. Vignon and his FEATS lab.
Research Interests:
Reinforcement learning, autonomous vehicles, traffic control, scaling multi-agent reinforcement learning, transportation system optimization; reinforcement learning algorithms and simulators used to train and deploy energy-smoothing cruise controllers
Essential Skills Recommended:
TBD
Expected Research Output:
TBD
Read more about Prof. Vinitsky and his Emerge lab.
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Personnel
Gerarda Shields
Dean, CUNY
Gerarda Shields is the Principal Investigator on this project.
Hamidreza Norouzi
Professor, CUNY
Hamidreza Norouzi is a Co-Principal Investigator on this project.
Jingqin Gao
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, C2SMARTER, NYU
Jingqin Gao is the NYU Site Coordinator on this project.