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SUMMARY:ITS America Webinar: Creating Access Through Equity in Transportation
DESCRIPTION:We all rely on some form of transportation to access employment\, education\, health care\, and other services. But not everyone has equal access to high-quality\, reliable\, and safe transportation. Even with a growing variety of transportation options available\, many residents find themselves limited in their choices due to physical accessibility limitations\, safety concerns\, or other impediments to safe and efficient travel. \nBy leveraging and utilizing new and emerging technologies\, we can build a more affordable and inclusive transportation system for more of our communities\, particularly for those who have traditionally been underserved or overlooked in transportation policy development. In this webinar\, leaders from top US research institutions will discuss how new developments and innovations in Transportation Equity can help make our system safer and more equitable for all users. \nSpeaker:\n• Dr. Robert Hampshire – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and Chief Science Officer\, U.S. DOT \nPanelists:\n• Dr. Mansoureh Jeihani – Director of the Urban Mobility & Equity Center (UMEC) and Professor\, Morgan State University\n• Dr. Kaan Ozbay – Director of the Connected Cities with Smart Transportation (C2SMART) Center and Professor\, New York University\n• Tia Boyd – Research Associate with the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR)\, University of South Florida\n• Dr. Hilary Nixon\, Deputy Executive Director\, Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San José State University (SJSU) (moderator)
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/its-america-webinar-creating-access-through-equity-in-transportation/
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SUMMARY:Women in TransitTech: Solutions to the Pink Tax on Transportation
DESCRIPTION:“The Pink Tax” has emerged as a term used to describe the higher prices women pay for equivalent products and services: the classic example is that a pink “ladies’” razor costs more than a blue “men’s” one. But how pervasive is this “tax\,” and how does it impact services that seem at first glance more difficult to gender\, like transportation? The NYC subway charges the same fare to every adult\, regardless of gender — but how do social factors\, like more frequent exposure to harassment or heightened caregiving responsibilities\, affect how women incur transportation costs? \nDive into a discussion on “The Pink Tax on Transportation: Women’s Challenges in Mobility\,” a recent study by the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation\, moderated by one of its authors\, Sarah Kaufman (Associate Director at NYU Rudin). Kaufman will lead a conversation with three transit experts on the paper’s findings\, its implications for equitable transit strategy and planning\, and the solutions panelists have explored to minimize women’s additional transportation costs. \nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nMeghna Khanna\nSenior Director at Mobility Corridors\nLA Metro\nMeghna Khanna is a Senior Director with the Mobility Corridors Department at LA Metro. She manages and oversees environmental clearance and design of various Light Rail Transit Projects including West Santa Ana Branch. As a previous member of the LA Metro’s Women and Girl Governing Council\, she led the Understanding How Women Travel Study- first of its kind by a transit agency in the United States – and is currently managing the Gender Action Plan.\n\n\n\n\nSarah Meyer\nChief Customer Officer\nMetropolitan Transportation Authority\n\nSarah Meyer is the Chief Customer Officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She is charged with rebuilding and enhancing the customer experience for New York City’s subway\, bus\, and paratransit riders\, and for those using MetroNorth and Long Island Rail Road services. From trip-planning\, to purchasing fare media\, to on-board experiences\, she is responsible for the customer journey end-to-end. She is currently focused on COVID response and bringing New York City back to life\, making it easier for customers to get from A to B\, quickly and easily. Her team recently won a Cannes Gold Lion for their groundbreaking work on map.mta.info.Prior to her work at Transit\, Sarah was a communications and business transformation consultant with 15 years of experience. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in art history\, and she currently lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.\n\n \nLeni Schwendinger\nUrban Lighting Designer\nLeni Schwendinger Light Projects \n\nLeni Schwendinger is a published\, award-winning authority on issues of city lighting\, with more than 20 years of worldwide experience creating illuminated environments. Her innovative interdisciplinary practice\, nighttime design urbanism\, focuses on city districts’ darkened hours and includes fresh community involvement methodologies such as “NightSeeing™\, Navigate Your Luminous City” program. Leni is a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics\, a Design Trust for Public Space Fellow (NYC).\n\n\n\n\nSarah Kaufman\nAssociate Director\nNYU Rudin Center for Transportation\n\nSarah M. Kaufman is the Associate Director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation\, where she researches\, advocates for and educates about cutting-edge technologies in transportation. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Planning\, teaching Intelligent Cities and Advanced Projects in Urban Planning.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/women-in-transittech-solutions-to-the-pink-tax-on-transportation/
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SUMMARY:NYU Transportation Joint Campus Research Summit
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 NYU Transportation Joint Campus Research Summit seeks to bring together colleagues from New York City\, Shanghai\, and Abu Dhabi to exchange information and ideas from their current research\, and to determine ways in which the three campuses can collaborate on transportation and mobility problems related to smart cities. This hybrid event will take place synchronously\, in-person on each campus\, connected to one another through Zoom.  \n \nAgenda\n \nSpeakers\n \nKaan M.A. Özbay joined Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU in August 2013. Since 2017\, Ozbay has been the Founding Director of the C2SMART Center (Tier 1 UTC funded by USDOT). He is also Global Network Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering\, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Global Network Professor of Engineering and Computer Science\, NYU Shanghai (NYUSH). Ozbay was a tenured full Professor at the Rutgers University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He joined Rutgers University as a tenure track Assistant Professor in July\, 1996. In 2008\, he was a visiting scholar at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department of Princeton University. Ozbay is the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. \nProfessor Ozbay served as the elected member of Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of New Jersey in 2013. He has been an active member of national and international scientific and professional committees and organizations\, including IEEE\, ITE\, ASCE\, AASHTO and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the US National Academies. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at the City University of New York – USDOT’s Region 2 University Transportation Center. \nJoseph Chow is an Institute Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Urban Engineering and the Deputy Director at the C2SMART Tier-1 University Transportation Center at NYU\, and heads BUILT@NYU: the Behavioral Urban Informatics\, Logistics\, and Transport Laboratory. Chow’s research expertise lies in transportation systems\, with emphasis on multimodal networks\, behavioral urban logistics\, smart cities\, and transport economics. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient\, a former elected Chair of the Urban Transportation SIG and appointed TSL Cluster Chair at INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Society\, chair of the TRB subcommittee on Route Choice and Spatiotemporal Behavior\, and is an appointed Associate Editor for International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology and Transportation Research Record\, the journal for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. At NYU Chow is an Associated Faculty at CUSP and Rudin Center. \nSemiha Ergan is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering (courtesy) at New York University\, and an associated faculty at CUSP. With her background in civil engineering\, data science\, and building informatics\, she works on improving buildings’ performance during design\, construction\, and operation phases. Ergan leads the Building Informatics and Visualization Lab (biLAB)\, where she actively seeks data-driven and model-based solutions to operational challenges associated with construction and operation of civil infrastructure systems\, with an emphasis on buildings. Her work has been supported by DOE\, NSF\, DARPA\, and private organizations. Ergan’s achievements have been recognized by a number of awards\, including most recently the DARPA Young Faculty Award (2015) and the Construction Industry Institute New Scholar Award (2015). She is the Vice Chair for ASCE TCCIT Visualization\, Information Modeling and Simulation Committee\, an Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering\, and academic committee member of Construction Industry Institute. \nMasoud Ghandehari serves on the Faculty of Civil and Urban Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is an associate faculty at the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress. Ghandehari is the author of Optical Phenomenology and Applications: Health Monitoring for Infrastructure Materials and the Environment\, 2018\, the founding investigator of the New York State Resiliency Institute for Storm Events\, and founder of Chromosense LLC.\, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health for innovation in environmental sensing. His research in optical spectroscopy\, sensing\, imaging\, and data analytics has led to the development of applications and technologies suitable for diverse environments and multiple scales; ranging from the molecular to the urban landscape. \nShri Iyer serves as the Managing Director for the C2SMART Center\, overseeing the operations of the center as well as agency outreach and strategic planning of the center. Prior to joining C2SMART\, Iyer worked at MTA New York City Transit on promoting data-driven policy and analysis within the agency. He is also experienced in working with other agencies in the New York area\, and brings with him extensive knowledge of the regional transportation system. Iyer completed his MS in Civil (Transportation) Engineering at Rutgers University in 2009 and received his MPA for Public Service Leaders from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service in 2020. \nMolly Seeley completed her MSc in Public Policy and Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020 and received her B.A. in Anthropology and Comparative Literature from New York University in 2013. Prior to coming on board at C2SMART\, Seeley spent six years at the Institute of Global Homelessness at DePaul University\, working with a portfolio of thirteen cities across six countries to measurably and sustainably reduce homelessness. At C2SMART\, Seeley is responsible for overseeing\, tracking\, and coordinating multiple parallel research efforts undertaken by Principal Investigators\, staff\, and students. She manages project stakeholders across multiple sectors and is responsible for the organization and facilitation of meetings\, workshops\, and training to ensure successful technology transfer. \n \n \nMonica Menendez is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Affairs and a Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi\, as well as a Global Network Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering in New York University. She is also the Director and Lead PI of the NYUAD Research Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES); and the recipient of the NYUAD Distinguished Research Award for 2021. Between 2010 and 2017\, Menendez was the Director of the research group Traffic Engineering at ETH Zurich. Prior to that\, she was a management consultant at Bain & Company. She joined Bain after receiving a PhD and a MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2006. During her studies there\, Menendez received\, among other awards\, an NSF Fellowship and the Gordon F. Newell Award. In total\, she is the recipient of more than 20 scholarships and awards from well-known and prestigious organizations\, professional societies\, and universities. Menendez also holds a dual degree in Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering from the University of Miami\, from where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2002. \n \nSamer Madanat\, Dean of New York University Abu Dhabi’s Engineering Division\, is the Xenel Distinguished Professor of Engineering\, former Chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and former Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1986\, and a MS and PhD in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1988 and 1991\, respectively. From 2001 to 2011\, Madanat served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. He is currently  Editor of  Transport Policy\, Associate Editor of the European Journal of Transportation and Logistics\, and an editorial board member of Transportation Research D\, and Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Systems. Madanat serves on several advisory committees\, including for the National Research Council\, and has served as an external reviewer of Civil Engineering departments at MIT\,  Nanyang Technological University of Singapore\, and Tongji University. \n \nSaif Jabari an Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi and Global Network Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Prior to joining NYUAD\, Jabari was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Mathematical Sciences and Analytics Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights\, NY. Jabari received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities in 2012. His doctoral dissertation received the 2012 Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for best dissertation in Science and Technology. \nAli Diabat received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology\, Jordan in 1999\, M.Sc. degree in Operations Research from North Carolina State University\, USA in 2003\, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University\, USA in 2008. In June 2008\, Diabat joined Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi as an Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems and Management\, and due to his exceptional performance\, he was promoted to Associate Professor in June 2012\, and to Full Professor in June 2016. Right after completing nine years at Masdar Institute\, Diabat joined New York University Abu Dhabi as a Global Network Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering. \n \n \nZhibin Chen is an Assistant Professor of Engineering\, NYU Shanghai and a Global Network Assistant Professor\, NYU. Prior to this appointment\, he was a research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Chen’s research goal is to identify\, develop\, and implement emerging technologies to achieve a safer\, more efficient\, and environment-friendly transportation system. Chen was the recipient of the Stella Dafermos Best Paper Award and the Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award at the 95th TRB Annual Meeting. \nChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai. He also serves as a research consultant at the Centre on Migration\, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford and as a senior visiting researcher at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Guan is the co-director of the International Urban Innovation Research Center\, a nonprofit organization. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University. Guan has published more than 30 papers in internationally renowned journals indexed in the Science/Social Science Citation Index. Guan has taught courses at both NYU Shanghai and Harvard University.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/nyu-transportation-joint-campus-research-summit/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Collaborative and Adversarial 3D Perception for Autonomous Driving
DESCRIPTION:Robust and reliable perception systems serve as the “eyes” of autonomous vehicles. LiDAR is a widely applied perception sensor in autonomous vehicles for capturing 3D geometry information of the environment. However\, LiDAR-based perception faces many challenges such as data sparsity\, occlusions\, and motion distortion. In this talk\, I will show how we design novel 3D deep learning algorithms from two aspects\, collaborative and adversarial\, in order to improve the robustness of LiDAR-based 3D perception. For effective and efficient collaborative perception\, we propose DiscoNet. It uses a dynamic directed graph with matrix-valued edge weight for an ego-vehicle to adaptively retrieve the most important complementary information from its neighboring vehicles\, which could improve its own perception performance and robustness. Besides collaborative perception\, we also study the adversarial robustness of LiDAR-based perception\, and reveal an often-overlooked vulnerability that lies in the LiDAR motion correction process. We show that spoofing of a vehicle’s trajectory estimation with small adversarial perturbations can jeopardize LiDAR perception. We hope our collaborative and adversarial 3D perception research can help improve the robustness and safety of autonomous driving systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nSpeaker Biography: Yiming Li is a Ph.D. candidate in AI4CE Lab at New York University (NYU) with the Dean’s PhD Fellowship. His research interest primarily lies in robot vision and learning\, with its applications in cyber-physical systems\, autonomous driving\, and human-robot interaction. More specifically\, he is interested in collaborative and adversarial perception\, egocentric vision\, multi-modal perception\, and embodied AI. His works have been published in top-tier conferences including NeurIPS\, CVPR\, ICCV\, ICRA\, and IROS. During his first Ph.D. year\, he visited MARS Lab in Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University\, MediaBrain Group in School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)\, and Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University. He obtained a bachelor degree in mechatronics\, manufacture\, and automation from Tongji University at Shanghai with honors.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/webinar-collaborative-and-adversarial-3d-perception-for-autonomous-driving/
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SUMMARY:Research and Practice: Scaling a Flood Sensor Network for a Resilient NYC
DESCRIPTION:The FloodSense project\, first seeded by C2SMART in 2020\, developed a publicly-accessible platform that provides real-time flood information through deployed sensors capable of detecting the presence of water. Designed to help cities respond to emergencies by providing real-time information on flood depth\, frequency\, and duration\, the project has since grown into the NYC FloodNet consortium\, a partnership with CUNY\, the NYC Mayor’s Offices of Climate Resiliency\, and of the CTO\, Science and Resilience Institute\, Jamaica Bay\, and New York Sea Grant– and plans to scale sensor deployment all over New York City. The research team will share the development and impact of the project\, and its role in the future of NYC’s emergency response and resiliency\, detailing how FloodNet sensors were able to detect and generate warnings from flooding resulting from Hurricane Ida\, the challenges and opportunities of scale\, and the future of smart urban resilience.
URL:https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/event/research-and-practice-scaling-a-flood-sensor-network-for-a-resilient-nyc/
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