Research Resources Already Available for Conducting Research

 

NYU has an extensive collection of resources from: Tandon School of Engineering, UrbanITS Center, Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Leadership at Wagner School of Public Service, CUSP, NYU Abu Dhabi, Urban Future Lab, Entrepreneurial Institute, GovLab, and the Marron Institute. Through these resources, NYU is leading several very large scale research and education projects related to smart and connected cities that will be incorporated into the proposed center research. CUSP launched in 2012 to establish a brand new university-wide center whose research and education programs are focused on urban informatics. Using NYC as its lab, and building from its home in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, CUSP integrates and applies NYU strengths in engineering and the natural, data, and social sciences to understand and improve cities throughout the world.  The International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP) at NYU is a leading center focusing on advancing the resilience of both organizations and wider society. InterCEP is led by Bill Raisch of NYU and brings together key elements of both the private and public sectors to actively collaborate on improving resiliency throughout the world. The Center hosts the Global Resilience Network (GRN), which brings together leading multi-national corporations to cooperate on common risks with local governments and NGO’s across the globe. The Kavli HUMAN Project funded by the Kavli foundation and led by Professor Glimcher of NYU capitalizes on recent advances in technology and data analytics to gather information on individuals over an extended period of time. This approach will yield the first “360-degree view” of the dynamic patterns and feedback mechanisms between human behavior, biology, and environment across the lifespan in a single group of subjects.

Rutgers University RIME laboratory led by Professor Nassif of Rutgers University brings unique expertise in SHM in infrastructure applications. A live test bed, part of its on-going 3-year on-call agreement with the NJ Turnpike Authority, will be used by the team for implementing innovative sensor technologies. RIME group also has a mobile laboratory for field-testing and SHM of transportation structures. The laboratory was acquired as part of a 5-year study to instrument and monitor the first LRFD-designed girder bridge in Newark and other bridges in New Jersey.

Smart Cities Initiative at UTEP led by Professor Cheu, initiated the Smart Cities Research Community. Strategic partnerships were quickly established with the Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic and College of Economics and Business Administration, University of Guadalajara, Mexico. UTEP is in a leadership role in integrating collaborative, international education and research, and using educational programs to spur smart cities research. The UTEP Smart Cities Community is also in constant discussions for collaborative opportunity with the City of El Paso, designated as one of “100 Resilient Cities” by the Rockefeller Foundation.