Alex Curtis Named C2SMART’s 2019 Outstanding Student of the Year C2SMART has chosen Alex Curtis, a master’s student at New York University in Transportation Planning and Engineering, as its 2019 Outstanding Student of the Year. The annual award recognizes a student from one of C2SMART’s consortium member schools, as chosen by the Center’s executive leadership…
Babu Veeregowda, Congestion Pricing in NYC New York City has become more and more congested in recent years. In addition, the state of the MTA New York City Subway has become severely deteriorated to the point where derailments, signal failures, and track fires are becoming more common. Congestion pricing has been proposed in recent years…
Zhiding Yu, Towards Weakly-Supervised Visual Understanding Learning with weak and self-supervisions recently emerged as compelling tools towards leveraging vast amounts of unlabeled or partially-labeled data. In this talk, Zhiding presented some of the latest advances in weakly-supervised visual scene understanding from NVIDIA. Specifically, He summarized and discussed some challenges and potential solutions in weakly-supervised learning,…
Subway Signaling Innovation Summit On December 10th, C2SMART Professor Joseph Chow joined the Signaling Innovation Summit as a tech pitch evaluator. This Summit brought together innovators, stakeholders and academic experts to create partnerships that will improve subway safety, performance and operational efficiency through signaling modernization. The MTA is allowing private vendors to have a part…
Better Buses: Advancing Social Equity for New Yorkers: How Can Improved Bus Service Transform Economic Opportunity On December 9th, NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation had a forum called “Better Buses: Advancing Social Equity for New Yorkers: How Can Improved Bus Service Transform Economic Opportunity”. The panelists were: Polly Trottenberg, Commissioner, NYC Department of Transportation David…
C2SMART Members and Affiliates at TRB 2020 Join C2SMART at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C. on January 12-16, 2020. Once again, our members and affiliates will be presenting a wide variety of research during lectern and poster sessions, as well as presiding over several workshops and committee meetings.…
Ziyi Ma Awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship This past fall, Ziyi Ma, a former undergrad at NYU Tandon with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and now a graduate student studying Transportation Planning and Engineering, has been awarded a Student Designee for the 2019 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Since its…
NYU graduate student Ziyi Ma awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Ziyi Ma, a graduate student studying Transportation Planning and Engineering, has been awarded a Student Designee for the 2019 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Since its inception in 1983, the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) has…
Jingqin Gao Wins WTS Leadership Award C2SMART congratulates Ph.D. candidate Jingqin Gao, who has been awarded the WTS Beverley Swaim Staley Leadership Legacy Scholarship by the WTS Greater New York Chapter. The award is presented annually to an outstanding young woman pursuing graduate studies working toward a career in transportation or a related field, and who…
C2SMART congratulates its students Hella Alosta-Alnajjar, Wassim Nasr Eddine, and John El-khouri, who have been awarded 2019 Scholarship by the Tri-State Arab-American Association of Engineers and Architects (AAAEA) at its annual Scholarship Gala on November 3rd. The award is presented annually to outstanding undergraduate or graduate students in the fields of Engineering, Architecture or Computer Science. The…