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SUMMARY:Where are they now? A catch-up with recent transportation engineering graduates as they start their new careers in industry\, government\, and academia
DESCRIPTION:From preparing for the final stretch of your degree to choosing your next steps after graduating\, navigating the job market and charting your career path can feel overwhelming. Join C2SMART alumni Diego Correa\, Di Yang\, and Srushti Rath\, as they talk about their journey in engineering and transportation and will answer questions from students about life after matriculation. \nSpeakers \nDr. Di Yang is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Transportation & Urban Infrastructure Studies at Morgan State University. His research focuses on developing novel statistical and data-driven methods at the intersection of transportation safety\, connected and autonomous vehicles\, human factors\, policy analysis\, and shared mobility. His research contributions have led to 27 publications in various journals and conferences\, featuring 11 first-author papers\, and recognized by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Northeastern District Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award in 2021. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from New York University in 2022. \nDr. Srushti Rath is a research scientist at Amazon (in Amazon Transportation Services). She graduated from NYU Tandon School of Engineering in summer 2022 with a Ph.D. degree in Transportation Planning and Engineering. Her research was focused on developing data-driven decision support tools for large-scale strategic deployment of emerging mobility services. During her graduate studies at NYU\, she interned at Amazon working on freight recommender systems and at Uber Elevate focusing on air taxi infrastructure location optimization. Prior to joining NYU for her MS studies in 2018\, she worked as an assistant executive engineer in the housing and urban development department\, Government of Odisha (India)\, contributing toward the India’s flagship smart city program. She is the recipient of the S. David Ali Memorial scholarship awarded by the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Greater NY chapter for the year 2020. Her interest lies in leveraging operations research\, machine-learning\, and supply- demand modeling for designing sustainable\, data-driven\, and intelligent transportation solutions. \nDr. Diego Correa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology at the University of Azuay\, and the General Director of Mobility of the City of Cuenca-Ecuador. His research focuses on emerging mobility services\, travel demand modeling\, and how big data\, technology\, and machine learning can address urban problems. Diego’s innovative approach to transport has been recognized by the Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE as the Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Awardee 2017\, by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America ITS-NJ as the Outstanding Graduate Student Awardee 2016\, by the National Operations Center of Excellence NOCoE\, as the TSMO Student Champion 2018\, by the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU\, as an Emerging Leader in Transportation in 2018\, and lastly\, as part of the 2019 class of NYU’s Urban Doctoral Fellows.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/where-are-they-now-a-catch-up-with-recent-transportation-engineering-graduates-as-they-start-their-new-careers-in-industry-government-and-academia/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student Events,Virtual Events
ORGANIZER;CN="C2SMART":MAILTO:c2smart@nyu.edu
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SUMMARY:USDOT Free Public Webinar:  Intersection Safety Challenge Prize Competition
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will host a webinar on May 22 to discuss the Intersection Safety Challenge Prize Competition\, which launched on April 25\, 2023. \nEach year\, roughly one-quarter of traffic fatalities and about one-half of all traffic injuries in the United States are attributed to intersections. According to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)\, an estimated 42\,939 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2021\, a 10.1% increase compared to 39\,007 fatalities reported in 2020. From 2020 to 2021\, pedestrian and pedalcyclist fatalities and injuries increased at an alarming rate. For example\, pedestrian fatalities increased 13% and pedestrian injuries increased 11% from 2020 to 2021. In response to growing concerns regarding the safety of vulnerable road users at intersections and as part of the recent National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) Call to Action\, the DOT aims to transform intersection safety through the innovative application of emerging technologies to identify and mitigate unsafe conditions involving vehicles and vulnerable road users. \nTo help address this growing problem and support U.S. DOT’s vision\, U.S. DOT is launching the Intersection Safety Challenge. This Challenge includes a multi-stage Prize Competition to encourage teams of innovators and end-users to develop and test their intersection safety systems (ISS) to compete for up to $6 million total in prizes. \nThe Challenge is considering the potential of emerging technologies to transform intersection safety and ensure equity among all road users (including vehicles and vulnerable road users). Leveraging emerging technologies to anticipate\, prevent\, and mitigate unsafe roadway conditions could augment traditional safety engineering in roadway design and intersection control. These emerging technologies could include machine vision\, machine perception\, sensor fusion\, real-time decision-making\, artificial intelligence\, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications (among other approaches). These technologies in most cases rely on real-time decision-making informed by data ingested and analyzed from multiple sensor systems. \nThe webinar will discuss the U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge Prize Competition\, including a program overview\, the Prize Competition structure\, and Stage 1A expectations. Please register for this webinar by visiting the following registration link: https://iscwebinar.eventbrite.com. \nFor more information about the program\, please visit the program website: https://its.dot.gov/isc. For more information about the ITS JPO\, please visit: https://www.its.dot.gov/.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/usdot-free-public-webinar-intersection-safety-challenge-prize-competition/
LOCATION:Virtual\, 6 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Safety in Transportation Systems,Virtual Events
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Gittins Indices for Cost-aware and Freeze-thaw Bayesian Optimization
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Qian Xie\, Cornell \nHyperparameter optimization is crucial in real-world applications such as machine learning model training\, robotics control\, material design\, and plasma physics. In transportation\, hyperparameter optimization plays a significant role in applications like traffic flow prediction\, dynamic pricing\, route planning\, and public transportation scheduling\, where complex models need to be fine-tuned to achieve optimal performance. These scenarios are often modeled as black-box functions\, which take hyperparameters as inputs and output performance metrics. Bayesian optimization is a powerful framework for efficiently optimizing such black-box functions\, especially when evaluations are time-consuming or expensive. However\, practical factors such as varying function evaluation costs and observable partial feedback during function evaluation remain under-explored in this framework. My research leverages Gittins indices\, which are inherently cost-aware and feedback-aware\, by drawing connections to Pandora’s Box problems and Markovian/Bayesian bandits\, where Gittins indices are Bayesian optimal. \nIn the first half of my talk\, I will present my published work\, which adapts Gittins indices into a cost-aware acquisition function class for Bayesian optimization\, demonstrating competitive empirical performance\, particularly in medium-to-high dimensions. In the second half\, I will discuss my ongoing work on developing Gittins indices for freeze-thaw Bayesian optimization involving decisions on early stopping and switching of hyperparameter tests based on partial feedback.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/seminar-gittins-indices-for-cost-aware-and-freeze-thaw-bayesian-optimization/
LOCATION:C2SMART Center Viz Lab\, 6 Metrotech Center\, Room 460\, Brooklyn\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Virtual Events,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Inverse Learning and Intervention of Transportation Network Equilibrium
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nBy 2035\, nearly half of all new vehicles in the United States will be connected\, generating unprecedented volumes of mobility data. Leveraging emerging connected mobility data\, this talk establishes an AI-enabled inverse learning framework to transform the transportation network equilibrium modeling paradigm\, which has been the foundation of system planning and management for over seventy years. \nTraditional transportation network equilibrium models are time-consuming and costly to calibrate. This talk presents the inverse learning of user equilibrium as a novel framework for constructing nonparametric\, context-dependent network equilibrium models directly from empirical travel patterns. We compare nonparametric and parametric approaches\, mathematically clarifying the trade-offs among behavioral realism\, data availability\, and computational cost. The proposed neural-network-based nonparametric framework can automatically discover any well-posed network equilibrium model given\nsufficient data\, without relying on predefined behavioral assumptions. In contrast\, the semi-parametric approach is more computationally tractable\, as it simplifies the inverse learning problem into a sequence of convex optimizations. \nFinally\, we apply the inverse learning framework to a long-term network design problem for the city of Ann Arbor\, Michigan. Using real-world crowdsourced data\, we learned a context-dependent equilibrium model and introduce a certified\, auto-differentiation-accelerated algorithm to solve the resulting distributionally robust bi-level network design problem under contextual uncertainty. \nBio:\nDr. Zhichen Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Stony Brook University Department of Civil Engineering. Her research focuses on innovating next-generation modeling and computational tools for mobility and logistics systems\, with an emphasis on connectivity\, electrification\, and automation. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Industrial and Operational Engineering from the University of Michigan\, and previously served as a Visiting Scientist at General Motors. Dr. Liu is a recipient of the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship and was honored as the sole global awardee of the prestigious Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship by the WTS International Foundation.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/89965/
LOCATION:C2SMART Center Viz Lab\, 6 Metrotech Center\, Room 460\, Brooklyn\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Student Events,Virtual Events,Webinars
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SUMMARY:NYU MS Open House Series\, Session 1
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URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/nyu-ms-open-house-series-session-1/
CATEGORIES:Student Events,Virtual Events
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SUMMARY:NYU MS Open House Series\, Session 2
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URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/nyu-ms-open-house-series-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Student Events,Virtual Events
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SUMMARY:NYU MS Open House Series\, Session 3
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URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/nyu-ms-open-house-series-session-3/
CATEGORIES:Student Events,Virtual Events
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SUMMARY:NYU MS Open House Series\, Session 4- Last one!
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URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/nyu-ms-open-house-series-session-4-last-one/
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