NYU FACULTY URBAN RESEARCH DAY Friday, March 6, 2020

Table of Contents

Urban Research Day 2020 Agenda -- 3

NYU Faculty Presentation Groups -- 4

Luncheon Speakers -- 6

Faculty Presenters -- 7

Doctoral Presenters -- 38

Urban Initiative Co-Directors -- 43

Faculty Advisory Committee -- 45

Urban Doctoral Fellows -- 50

References and Resources -- 55

NYU FACULTY URBAN RESEARCH DAY Friday, March 6, 2020

12:00 - 4:55 pm | Luncheon + Program 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor

**As of February 18, 2020 (program subject to change)**

Time Location Event______

11:00 - 12:00 Rudin Registration Opens & Doctoral Poster Session

12:00 - 1:00 Rudin Luncheon Reception Begins

12:05 - 12:15 Rudin Welcome & Opening Remarks Cybele Raver, Deputy Provost, NYU

12:45 - 1:00 Rudin Closing Remarks Sherry Glied, Dean, NYU Wagner

1:00 - 1:15 -- Transition to Presentation Rooms

1:15 - 2:15 Various Rooms Round 1: Lightning Presentations + Panel Discussions

2:15 - 2:35 Murphy Break, Transition, & Poster Display (A Doctoral Student Poster Session will take place in the Murphy Conference Room. Refreshments and snacks will also be available.)

2:35 - 3:35 Various Rooms Round 2: Lightning Presentations + Panel Discussions

3:35 - 3:55 Murphy Break, Transition, & Poster Display (A Doctoral Student Poster Session will take place in the Murphy Conference Room. Refreshments and snacks will also be available.)

3:55 - 4:55 Various Rooms Round 3: Lightening Presentations + Panel Discussions

NYU FACULTY URBAN RESEARCH DAY PRESENTATION GROUPS

Up to five faculty presenters will be in each room, and will share their research in a lightning style presentation sequentially. Presenters give a 3 minute presentation of their work accompanied by 3 slides. A facilitator will then moderate a 15 minute discussion on the common theme. Q&A will follow the discussion for 15 minutes. 15 minutes will conclude the panel allowing for one-on-one conversations with panelists. This process will be repeated in three rounds. Each room will have a timekeeper and facilitator.

ROUND 1 (1:15 pm - 2:15 pm)

Group Environment Health Urban Design & Safety & Development Resilience Room & Rice Lafayette Mulberry Jersey Location (2nd Floor) (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor)

Moderator Thomas Sugrue Kathy Gianpaolo Baiocchi Andrea O’Regan Silverman Presenters Barry Hersh Ingrid Gould Alexander Shermansong & Quanyan Zhu Ellen Neil Kleiman Juan Pablo Bello Timothy H. Alice Elliott Yu Chen Savage Sanjaya Singh Blagovesta Momchedjikova Gaur Chenjuan Ma Stanislav Sobolevsky Jon Ritter

Bonnie Kerker Silvia Maier

ROUND 2 (2:35 pm - 3:35 pm)

Group Diet & Methods & Urban Growth & Transportation Education Data Sustainability

Moderator Lorna Thorpe Linsey Clay Gillette Alexander Edwards Shermansong Room & Rice Lafayette Mulberry Jersey Location (2nd Floor) (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor)

Presenters Krishnendu Ray Marc Maria-Monica Salazar John Falcocchio Gourevitch Karla Rodriguez Shlomo Angel Rae Zimmerman Mark Stella S. Yi Cartwright Shitong Qiao Zhan Guo Carolyn Strom ChengHe Charlie Guan Vasant Dhar

ROUND 3 (3:55 pm - 4:55 pm)

Group Methods / Data Environmental Biodiversity & Vulnerable Exposures & Health Environment Populations

Room & Rice Lafayette Mulberry Jersey Location (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor) (3rd Floor)

Moderator Pablo Charlie McNally -- Kathy O’Regan Hernandez-Lagos

Presenters Johannes Lorna Thorpe Elizabeth Hénaff Jodie Adams Stroebel Kirshner Andrea Silverman Mary Killilea Magdalena Rachel Atkins Fuentes Masoud Ghandehari Pablo Sewin Chan Hernandez-Lagos Tae Hong Park Dr. Justin John Debra Laefer Moniz

LUNCHEON SPEAKERS

Cybele Raver Deputy Provost, Professor of Applied Psychology Cybele Raver serves as Deputy Provost for NYU. She also maintains an active program of research, examining the mechanisms that support children's self-regulation in the contexts of poverty and social policy. Raver and her research team currently conduct CSRP, a federally-funded RCT intervention and she regularly advises local and federal government agencies and foundations on promoting school readiness among low-income children. See our new articles in American Psychologist downloadable from the list, below. Raver has received several prestigious awards from organizations such as the American Psychological Association and the William T. Grant Foundation as well as support from the Spencer Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

Sherry Glied Dean, Professor of Public Service, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service In 2013, Sherry Glied was named Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. From 1989-2013, she was Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She was Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management from 1998-2009. On June 22, 2010, Glied was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, and served in that capacity from July 2010 through August 2012. She had previously served as Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993, under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. She has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of

Social Insurance, and served as a member of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. Glied’s principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy.

FACULTY PRESENTERS Alexander Shermansong Wagner, CUSP

Alexander Shermansong makes smart cities practical and urban tech useful. Alexander serves on the faculty of NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and NYU Tandon School of Engineering – Center for Urban Science and Progress. He teaches about smart cities and Lean innovation; he also leads research on transforming

Research Description: When the focus is government innovation, culture is the elephant in the room. One of the greatest factors for success for any organization in any sector, culture is rarely discussed in concrete terms -- especially at city hall. We are hoping to change that. The project grows out of hundreds of conversations we've had with mayors and city leaders who believe organizational culture is one of the single greatest impediments to innovation—and who want guidance to address the issue. We will profile three cities to answer: What is organizational culture in municipal government? Why do mayors and city executives seek to change their organizational culture? To what degree, do external pressures influence culture change? How can city leaders design, initiate, and manage effective culture change? Can performance improvements related to culture change be measured?

Neil Kleiman Wagner, CUSP, Marron Institute, & GovLab

Neil Kleiman has spent 20 years building a career at the intersection of policy, philanthropy, government and academia. He founded an urban issues think tank, established new university degree programs, and developed innovative and practical policy solutions for dozens of cities across the United States. He has also written and edited over thirty policy reports, with his work featured in many media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education, PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio. Kleiman has a joint appointment at the Wagner School of Public Service and the Center for Urban Science + Progress. He is a Senior Fellow at The GovLab and an Affiliated Scholar at the Marron Institute of Urban Management. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on policy formation, urban innovation, and new approaches to managing technology and big data. In 2017, he published a book with Stephen Goldsmith on urban governance reform entitled A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative and Distributed Governance on Brookings Institution press. Kleiman serves as the MS Program Director at CUSP. And, as Director of the NYU Wagner Innovation Labs, he

supports the development of initiatives and programs to address pressing urban challenges, both nationally and globally.

Research Description: Working with Alexander Shermansong (see above).

Alice Elliott NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film, Television and Media, Undergraduate Film and Television, Area Head, Documentary Studies

Alice Elliott is an Academy Award nominated director for the The Collector of Bedford Street. She directed the PBS Award winning documentary Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, which is now being made into a musical. A Guggenheim Fellow recipient, Ms. Elliott and Jason Dasilva are co-directing a feature film, The Dismantled, about an unlikely smuggler. Her recent documentary, Miracle on 42nd Street, about affordable housing for artists, is nominated for an Emmy Award this year. She is head of Documentary Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a media diversity consultant for corporations and non-profits. www.welcomechange.org.

Research Description: "Miracle on 42nd Street" is the first film about the impact of affordable housing for artists on the urban landscape. Using the example of Manhattan Plaza in New York city, this conversation provoking solution looks at issues of gentrification and urban renewal through the story of a building and the people it housed.

Chenjuan Ma NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Dr. Chenjuan Ma is health services researcher and an assistant professor at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her program of research focuses on understanding how to optimize nursing care and patient outcomes, particularly on home health care and community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Dr. Ma completed her doctoral training in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Prior to joining the NYU Rory Meyers faculty, Dr. Ma was a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist at the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators and worked on quality indicator development and evaluation.

Research Description: My primary research interest focuses on how to optimize home- and community-bases services, particularly the home health care to older adults of diverse backgrounds, including those with dementia. A secondary research focus is nursing workforce.

Anastasios Noulas Center for Data Science Anastasios is a Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow at the Center for Data Science, New York University. Anastasios completed his PhD in 2013 in the Network and Operating Systems group at the Computer Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. His main research interests include human mobility modelling, social network analysis, location-based services and disruptive technologies. During his PhD he has published at top-tier conferences and journals in the fields of data mining, online social systems and user behaviour modelling, combining machine learning and complex systems techniques. Prior to joining New York University, Anastasios was also a Data Scientist at Foursquare Labs in New York and Telefonica Research, Madrid. Over the past years he has collaborated with a number of Start-Ups including retail analytics provider PiinPoint, whereas in 2015 he has teamed up with researchers in Cambridge and Belgium to launch the OpenStreetCab project.

Research Description: Wiki Atlas, is a web platform that enables the exploration of Wikipedia content in a manner that explicitly links geography and knowledge. To explore content, users can click and interact with three dimensional polygon structures, each corresponding to a wikipedia article embedded in geographic space. As a use case example, let's imagine a user who is eager to explore museums in the city of London. By setting 'London' as the city of interest in the location search container available on the map and typing the 'Museum' search keyword, they can view all museums in the city that are featured in Wikipedia. Using Mapbox as the primary cartography platform for development, the Atlas offers global coverage with users being able to explore geo-tagged Wikipedia content wherever it is present around the world. Our first prototype of the altas features almost 1.2 million articles of the English Wikipedia, as well as five other popular languages and expanding. Moreover, we are in the process of integrating new tools for personalisation that, for example, will allow users to save lists of articles (“knowledge lists”) in order to view them at a later time or share them with peers. Besides being a general knowledge exploration tool, we aspire that Wiki Atlas also evolves to a knowledge discovery and learning platform that will help educators and students alike to systematically acquire knowledge through a fun and interactive medium. In this presentation, we will walk through a demo of the tool and the technologies that were used to build it, aiming at receiving feedback from the community in terms of improvements as well as possible future directions and use cases that could be enabled through the platform. Moreover, we will take some time towards the end of the presentation to showcase a mobile version of the Atlas that is currently under development at New York University and involves the geographic discovery of knowledge through Augmented Reality and Computer Vision technologies. We will discuss the possibilities and opportunities for novel way not only to acquire, but also contribute media other content, through new immersive mediums.

Andrea Silverman Civil and Urban Engineering (NYU Tandon) & Global Health (College of Global Public Health) Andrea Silverman is an Assistant Professor, with appointments in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and the NYU School of Global Public Health. The overarching goal of Dr. Silverman’s work is to develop sustainable and appropriate wastewater treatment systems, in an effort to protect public health and environmental quality. Within the broad topics of water quality and wastewater treatment, she focuses on the detection and control of waterborne pathogens, the design of natural wastewater treatment systems (e.g., treatment ponds and constructed wetlands), and the safe reuse of human waste. Dr. Silverman works in both high- and low-income settings, and has conducted field research in California, USA; Accra, Ghana; and Nairobi, Kenya.

Research Description: Cities require high quality drinking water and wastewater treatment to maintain a healthy population and environment. Research conducted in the Silverman Laboratory is focused on water quality and wastewater treatment, primarily from the perspective of waterborne pathogens and disinfection. Current projects include the frequency and impact of hyperlocal, sewage-influenced urban floods; mechanisms of disinfection of waterborne pathogens (including antibiotic resistant bacteria); and the design of natural wastewater treatment systems (e.g., constructed wetlands and treatment ponds) with enhanced disinfection performance. Additional research interests include onsite wastewater treatment systems (e.g., septic tanks and pit latrines), safe reuse of human waste, and disparities in provision of high quality water and sanitation in urban areas.

Barry Hersh Faculty: NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate; Alumni, NYU Wagner MUP

Barry F. Hersh is a Clinical Associate Professor at the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate and Chair of the Masters in Real Estate Development Program. He teaches courses in Land Use and Environmental Regulation, Sustainability and the Development Capstone. He works with faculty and curriculum; mentors students featuring successful national competition teams. Mr. Hersh conducts research on environmentally responsible urban real estate redevelopment, is a core faculty member of the NYU Center for the Sustainable Built Environment, and participates in international programs, most recently with the University of Amsterdam and NYU Shanghai.

Research Description: Case Study of Rheingold Brewery Redevelopment in Bushwick Brooklyn published by Lincoln Land Institute and American Collegiate Planning Society 2019. This study follows the redevelopment of the vacant former industrial site from an initial international site visit through numerous phases, starting with all affordable housing to mixed housing featuring cutting edge design. The study details the environmental remediation accomplished through both state and city programs. Demographic changes are detailed, including measures of gentrification, as well as the provision of affordable housing and public amenities. Sustainable design, especially some recent innovative architecture, is also included. The overall transformation of the specific site and the larger neighborhood is the theme of the case study.

Blagovesta Momchedjikova Expository Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD, Senior Language Lecturer, is the editor of Captured By The City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies (2013), guest-editor of Streetnotes: Urban Feel (2010), and contributor to The Everyday of Memory; Robert Moses and the Modern City; Streetnotes; Iso Magazine; The Journal of American Culture; Tourist Studies; Genre: Imagined Cities; and Piers. Also: Urban Culture Area Chair (MAPACA); PANORAMA educator (Queens Museum); Board Member (International Panorama Council).

Research Description: I work with scale models of urban environments, most notably The Panorama of the City of New York in the Queens Museum, and how these representations affect memory and our experiences of the lived city. The Panorama of the City of New York is legacy of the infamous urban planner Robert Moses and of the New York World's Fair of 1964/65, and as such carries aspects of both (i.e., Moses' ambitions for a clean, clear-cut and connected city; and the fair's purpose of staging and celebrating the glory of the city with the fair-goers). In the era of VR technology and google maps, the Panorama scale model appears as an outdated way of representing an urban environment. Yet it captures urban space comprehensively, in the same place and at the same time--in the museum gallery--like no other technology can. I will examine the effects of that, and how and why scale models are vital to understanding, remembering, and planning cities in this day and age.

Bonnie Kerker Departments of Population Health and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Bonnie Kerker, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor of Population Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. She is also the Director of Together Growing Strong, a community-based initiative aimed at supporting families with young children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. With training in health policy and epidemiology, Dr. Kerker focuses her research on interventions and policies that prevent and mitigate the impact of adverse experiences among young children and families. Her work emphasizes the process of adapting evidence- based programs for implementation in different populations and settings. Dr. Kerker’s current projects include the adaptation of a postpartum depression prevention intervention for women living in homeless shelters, as well as the development and evaluation of community- wide programs to enhance early childhood development and school readiness at kindergarten entry in an immigrant community in NYC.

Research Description: My research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of place-based initiatives, including the adaptation of evidence-based programs for specific communities. I focus on initiatives that attempt to mitigate the impact that adverse experiences, such as poverty and postpartum depression, have on young children and families in traditionally underserved neighborhoods or communities

Carolyn Strom Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Dr. Carolyn Strom is an educator and classroom researcher whose work focuses on improving early literacy outcomes and reading experiences for young children. Specifically, her work centers on bridging the divide between scientific research and instructional practice. She collaborates widely with teachers, school districts, and curriculum developers; currently, she is leading an initiative for New York City preschool teachers called 'Cortex2Classroom,' which centers on the practical application of reading science and learning technologies in early childhood. Recent work also includes 'Tools or Toys,' a framework for curating early reading apps. Noodle Education named Carolyn as one of 67 Influential Educators Who Are Changing the Way We Learn. As a state-certified reading specialist and former public elementary school teacher, Dr. Strom has spent the last two decades working at the intersection of research and practice. She has a PhD in Early Literacy from New York University and a Masters degree in the Science of Reading from the University of Southern California. She received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Description: My research focuses on how findings from neuroscience about literacy development are applied in urban early childhood settings. Specifically, I will share my work with as a part of a research-practice partnership with Steinhardt faculty, preschoolers in a Head Start program, and their teachers.

ChengHe Charlie Guan NYU Shanghai

ChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai, a core member of the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU Wagner. He serves as a research consultant at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford. Before joining NYU Shanghai, Dr. Guan worked as a postdoc at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Harold A. Pollman Research Fellow of Real Estate and Urban Development, both at Harvard University and also as a consultant to the World Bank. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University.

Research Description: A comparative study of urban transformation at city and regional scales using Cellular Automata urban growth modeling: Shanghai, New York, and Abu Dhabi Globally, over 50 per cent of the world’s population resides in urban areas. This number is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050, with most of the growth projected to take place in already highly dense cities. There is great diversity in the characteristics of these rapidly growing cities. Hence, it is of value to understand how cities at different development stages expand their urban proper, which has direct implication on their carbon future. We first collect geographical, land use, and infrastructure data for the modeling of urban growth. We will then apply empirical research methods such as Cellular Automata urban growth modeling to quantify urban transformation at city and regional scales under different scenarios. Proposed scenarios will correspond to a variety of planning, transportation, environmental, and migration policy interventions, and contribute differently to build low carbon cities for tomorrow.

Debra Laefer CUSP & Civil and Urban Engineering (Tandon) Professor Debra Laefer has a wide-ranging background spanning from geotechnical and structural engineering to art history and historic preservation. Not surprisingly, Professor Laefer’s work often stands at the cross-roads of technology creation and community values such as devising technical solutions for protecting architecturally significant buildings from sub-surface construction. As the density of her aerial remote sensing datasets continues to grow exponentially with time, Professor Laefer and her Urban Modeling Group must help pioneer computationally efficient storage, querying, and visualization strategies that both harness distributed computing-based solutions and bridge the gap between data availability and its usability for the engineering community. In her decade and a half as a faculty member in both the US and Europe, Professor Laefer has served as the principal investigator for grants from a wide range of sponsors including the National Science Foundation, the US Federal Highway Administration, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Science Foundation Ireland, and the European Research Council (including a €1.5 million single investigator award from the flagship ERC program for which she is the only civil engineer to have been funded in Ireland in the program’s 11 year history).

Research Description: With degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NYU (, and Columbia University, Prof. Debra Laefer has a wide-ranging background spanning from geotechnical and structural engineering to art history and historic preservation. Not surprisingly, Prof. Laefer’s work often stands at the cross-roads of technology creation and community values such as devising technical solutions for protecting architecturally significant buildings from sub-surface construction. As the density of her aerial remote sensing datasets continues to grow exponentially with time, Prof. Laefer and her Urban Modeling Group must help pioneer computationally efficient storage, querying, and visualization strategies that both harness distributed computing-based solutions and bridge the gap between data availability and its usability for the engineering community. Her current research interests focus on subsurface data integration with high density laser scanning, hyperspectral imagery and historical data about the built environment and its forgotten remnants as a way to both understand urban spaces and to manage them.

Dr. Justin John Moniz NYU Steinhardt, Music and Performing Arts Professions, Vocal Performance Dr. Justin John Moniz currently serves as Associate Director of Vocal Pedagogy and Music Assistant Professor of Vocal Performance at New York University’s (NYU) Steinhardt School, where he teaches courses in pedagogical theory and practice, applied voice, and supervises the graduate vocal pedagogy program. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Dr. Moniz served as Chair of Vocal Studies at Millikin University and Visiting Instructor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Highly regarded as one of the preeminent teachers of contemporary commercial music, Moniz’s current and former students have performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, on national and international tours, in regional theaters and opera houses, on national television (including The Voice: Season 15), and in bands touring throughout the United States. He has presented at both national and regional conferences for the National Opera Association (NOA), National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), and at institutions including Temple University, the Berklee College of Music, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Oklahoma City University, Auburn University, and St. Olaf College. Dr. Moniz holds four degrees from Florida State University, the University of Miami, and SUNY Potsdam, as well as certificates in Nonprofit Leadership and Sustainable Business Strategy from Duke University and Harvard Business School, respectively. He has received young alumni awards from all three of his alma maters, having recently been named one of Florida State University’s Notable Noles and University of Miami’s 30 Under Thirty. In addition, Moniz was awarded the Rising Star Award by SUNY Potsdam.

Research Description: The buzz around Seattle Opera’s 2017 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was not only about the opera’s beautiful music or the critical attention to historic visual details and lavish, authentic costumes. It also initiated a culture-shifting conversation in which Seattle’s Asian-American community decried the racist stereotypes and cultural appropriation at the core of the opera. Cultural Sensitivities in Opera: Enlisting Support and Navigating Controversy will begin to address racist stereotypes and cultural appropriation at the core of opera. Rather than shying away from the controversy, we will address how arts leaders and supporters of the art form may engage in the presentation of such works. In an effort to preserve the integrity of the operatic canon, a discussion will be had on how we must carefully navigate the many controversial elements present within the material.

Elizabeth Hénaff NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Technology, Culture and Society She earned an International Baccalaureate with honors in 1999 from Lycée Jeanne d’Albret, in France, and then entered the University of Texas, in Austin, where she earned a B.S. in Computer Science (2005) and an M.A. in Plant Biology (2008). In 2013 she earned her Ph.D., cum laude, in Bioinformatics, from the University of Barcelona. At the center of her research is a fascination with the way living beings interact with their environment. This inquiry has produced a body of work that ranges from scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, to projects with landscape architects, to artistic practice. She has made contributions to understanding how plants respond to the force of gravity, how genome structure changes in response to stress, and most recently has turned her attention to the ubiquitous and invisible microbial component of our environment. She has presented her research findings at scientific conferences such as the International Society of Microbial Ecology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the International Conference on Transposable Elements, and her design projects have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale and at local Brooklyn galleries, among other venues. Prior to coming to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Hénaff undertook postdoctoral research at Barcelona’s Center for Genomic Regulation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Weill Cornell Medical College, and was a research associate at the MIT Media Lab. Her teaching experience includes a program of international workshops implemented for varied audiences, from students at Rockefeller University to technologists at the Tokyo FabLab.

Research Description: In the era of computational genomics, a great deal of progress has been made in determining the relationships between genetic information and the development of multicellular organisms: plants, animals, humans. But what’s become most clear from this research is that all these organisms owe meaningful aspects of their development and phenotype to interactions with the microorganisms—bacteria or fungi—with which they live in symbiosis. Those microbes are an integral part of, and are affected by, our environment. As such, the individual microbiome—whether it lives on the skin, gut, mouth or elsewhere—manifests the continuum between organism and environment. It is a powerful tool for studying the impact of the environment on humans, and ultimately a vector with which to intervene through engineered landscapes. Responsible design for multicellular inhabitants (like humans) needs to take these microbes into account. These simple organisms determine our phenotype in ways that are far more consequential than any designer can hope to address through material or form.

Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel Liberal Studies Dr. Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University, is a graduate of Yale University (B.S., Cum Laude, Distinction in Biology). She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Columbia University, where she also earned a Certificate in Environmental Policy. Her research program focuses on genetic approaches for aquatic biodiversity and conservation. Population structure and history of threatened organisms such as sea turtles, with conservation and educational applications, represent her main interests. With the revolution in next-generation sequencing, she has expanded into environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis of genetic material collected from waters or soils, ranging from remote Pacific coral reefs to New York City oyster restoration sites. Genia is also a committed practitioner of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies in the classroom, and has co-authored numerous educational materials on protected areas and biodiversity conservation

Research Description: Next-Generation Approaches for Biodiversity: Monitoring Oyster Restoration with Environmental DNA Once widespread, eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations have declined greatly, primarily through overharvest, habitat degradation and disease. Restoring these keystone species can enhance water quality and sustain ecosystems. We monitored restored and wild oyster reefs at Soundview Park on the Bronx River, New York using environmental DNA (eDNA) samples collected from waters and sediments, in addition to morphological surveys. The eDNA analysis targeted the eukaryotic 18S gene region and identified 2,747 features from 1,944,035 sequences across 48 environmental samples. Significant differences were detected between benthic sediment and surface water eukaryotic community profiles. Although relatively rare, Crassostrea oyster eDNA was detected, as were Perkinsus oyster parasite sequences. The latter pathogens are currently uncommon in the area, pointing to eDNA’s potential as an early warning system. This study highlights the promise of eDNA as an essential complement to traditional oyster restoration monitoring efforts.

Jon Ritter FAS Art History

Jon Ritter is Clinical Associate Professor in the NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in architectural history from the NYU Institute of Fine Arts in 2007. His research and teaching focus on the origins of urban planning in the U.S. and Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Professor Ritter is currently president of the New York chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and he co-directs the NYUs London-based M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture.

Research Description: My research assesses the historical development of governmental civic centers in early 20th century cities. I will present a comparative analysis of the development of civic projects in Cleveland, San Francisco, and New York, emphasizing site selection, physical design, and social use. This research reveals tensions between the aspirations of

Progressive-era political reform and the power of commercial interests to shape urban form and function in American cities. Tracing the history of negotiations about the development of these projects suggests enduring patterns shaping cities today.

Goffredo Puccetti New York University Abu Dhabi Goffredo Puccetti is a graphic designer and visual communications consultant. His area of expertise is in corporate identity and branding. His main interests are in the interactions of visual communications with policy and decision-making processes. Prior to joining NYUAD in 2011, he worked in Italy, UK and France. He is a partner of the design consultancy Graines d'Octets, based in Fontainebleu, France, and Humus Design based in Rome, Italy.

Research Description: I am a designer with a background in visual identity and communications. Prior to joining NYUAD in 2011, I worked in Italy, UK and France. My research in inclusive design moves from the intellectual stance that disability is not a condition but a product of a condition and the environment. Together with Roberto Casati (CNRS, EHESS, Institut Nicod, Paris) we investigated disorientation and kept a design watch (mangrovia-collective.org). Our upcoming book (Design Errands, 2020) will present an overview of our observations. The conspicuous body of in-house design work carried on by students and faculty at NYUAD from 2012 to present has been organized into the show 'Design Works' held here in January 2019. The show will move to NYU, 19 Washington Square, in the Fall 2020. Specifically I would gladly share the outcomes of research carried on by students and myself on accessibility and sustainable urban transportation in Abu Dhabi.

Ingrid Gould Ellen NYU Wagner Ingrid Gould Ellen, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, is a Faculty Director at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She joined the NYU Wagner faculty in the fall of 1997 and presently teaches courses in microeconomics, urban economics, and urban policy. Professor Ellen's research interests center on housing and urban policy. She is author of Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters related to housing policy, community development, and school and neighborhood segregation. Professor Ellen has held visiting positions at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. She attended Harvard University, where she received a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy.

Research Description: While poor housing conditions can directly affect health, the key challenge for households in the US is housing affordability. Half of all renters now pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared to 1 in 4 in 1960. Such high rent burdens may trigger involuntary moves, elevate stress, and leave fewer resources for health-promoting expenditures. We estimate an event study of the effect of moving into a new subsidized housing development using a longitudinal sample of children born from 2006-2008 and continuously enrolled in New York State Medicaid. We restrict the sample to children who lived in market-rate housing in December 2008 but who won a lottery to move into a subsidized building at some point between 2009-2015. Our outcomes include the occurrence of asthma, anxiety, ADHD, and obesity in 2015-2017. We estimate separate linear probability models for each outcome with individual fixed effects and year dummies.

Jodie Adams Kirshner Marron Institute

Jodie Adams Kirshner is a Research Professor at the New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management. Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises, her narrative nonfiction book on the Detroit bankruptcy, funded by the Kresge Foundation, was published by St. Martin's Press in November 2019. It was recently shortlisted for the J Anthony Lukas Prize for Nonfiction. Her academic book International Bankruptcy Law: the Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy was published by the University of Chicago Press in May 2018. Until 2014, Kirshner was a law professor at Cambridge University, where she also served as the deputy director of the Cambridge LL.M. program, the deputy director of the Cambridge Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, and as a fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge. She has also served as a technical advisor to the Bank for International Settlements and as an independent consultant for financial funds investing in distressed debt. Kirshner is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a senior research associate of the Cambridge Centre for Business Research. She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Columbia Law School Center for Law and Economics, and the Center for Law Economics & Finance in Washington, and a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since returning to the U.S., she has taught international bankruptcy law at Columbia Law School. Kirshner received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and graduate degrees in law and in journalism from Columbia University. She studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University and completed funded postdocs at the London Business School and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Hamburg, Germany.

Research Description: BROKE: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises (St. Martin's 2019), which follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after the city’s 2013 bankruptcy, Jodie Adams Kirshner asks: How could policymakers hype bankruptcy as the solution to struggling cities without understanding the efficacy or basic consequences of its use? We had overlooked urban residents and considered the issues all wrong. The individual lives portrayed in BROKE underscore Kirshner’s assertions. Reggie loses his savings trying to make a habitable home for his family. Cindy fights drug use, prostitution, and dumping on her block. Lola commutes two hours a day to her suburban job. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, state and federal negligence, and—even before the 2013 decision to declare Detroit bankrupt—the root causes of a city’s fiscal demise. Like Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, BROKE looks at what municipal distress means in practical and personal terms. More than 35 percent of Detroit’s

700,000 residents fall below the poverty line. Post-bankruptcy, they struggle with a broken real estate market, school system, and job market—and their lives have not improved. In his foreword, Michael Eric Dyson sums it up beautifully: The central, trenchant, undeniable argument of BROKE is clear: bankruptcy is neither a fiscally responsible nor morally irresistible response to the myriad challenges faced by the modern American city… after reading the poignant, heartbreaking, defiant pages of BROKE, no one should question the need for a moral referendum on how policy is created in and for urban America. BROKE’s implications extend beyond the city it takes for its subject because Detroit is nationally emblematic. Kirshner makes a powerful argument that cities—the economic engine of our nation—aren’t being given the state or federal government aid they need for their residents to survive, much less flourish. Success for all America’s citizens depends on equity of opportunity.

Johannes Stroebel NYU Stern

Johannes Stroebel is the David S. Loeb Professor of Finance and the Boxer Faculty Fellow at the New York University Stern School of Business. He joined NYU in 2013 from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Economics. Professor Stroebel conducts research in finance, macroeconomics, real estate economics, and climate finance. He has won numerous awards, including the AQR Asset Management Institute Young Researcher Prize and the Brattle Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Finance. He has also won an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics. Professor Stroebel is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Finance. Professor Stroebel read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Merton College, Oxford, where he won the Hicks and Webb Medley Prize for the best performance in Economics. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University, where he held the Bradley and Kohlhagen Fellowships at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Research Description: Which parts of the US and the world are New Yorkers most connected to, and how does the structure of friendship networks vary with demographic characteristics? How do friendship links vary across areas within New York City, and how much of this is driven by public transit infrastructure? Which countries are most connected to each other, and how does this affect patterns of international trade? We present findings on these and other questions using large-scale anonymized data from Facebook, the world's largest online social networking platform.

John Falcocchio Tandon School of Engineering; Department of Civil and Urban Engineering Dr. Falcocchio has been professor of transportation planning and engineering since 1981. He has served (1995-2014) as the director of the Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center (UITSC), executive director of the Transportation Research Institute, and head of the Department of Civil Engineering. As director of the UITSC, and he prepared the first ITS Strategic Plan for New York City, and assisted the New York City Department of Transportation with the deployment of its first ITS projects through research, professional training, demonstration projects, and international outreach. His transportation career has been shaped through a blend of academic and professional practical work experiences, ranging from academic teaching and research projects in transportation planning, to professional work with regional transportation agencies and local transportation planning projects with the private sector. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Transportation, New York State Department of Transportation, and New York City Department of Transportation.

Research Description: Current sources (e.g., fares, bridge/tunnel revenues, and other revenues across traditional sources like taxes, fees, and subsidies) and projected sources of MTA funding (e.g., Congestion Pricing) are inadequate to sustain reliable long-term transit maintenance and operations. Missing from these sources are potential revenues from the true beneficiaries of transit service: in the HUB, commercial skyscrapers could not be built or function without the subway and commuter rail, yet they do not share a proportional cost of the rail and subway service they receive. In 2015, this was estimated at $3.04 billion serving 662 million square feet of commercial space the HUB - a benefit equivalent to $4.48 per square foot. Allocating a fair share ($0.50-$1.50 annually per square foot?) of the operating and maintenance costs to owners of buildings and companies in the Hub could yield an annual revenue between $332 million and $996 million. Reliable rail and subway service will yield increased worker productivity, the protection of worker wages, and better workforce recruiting and retention.This could be accomplished through a proposed Transit Maintenance District.

Juan Pablo Bello Center for Urban Science and Progress -- Tandon/Steinhardt

Juan Pablo Bello is Professor of Music Technology and Computer Science & Engineering at New York University. In 1998 he received a BEng in Electronics from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and in 2003 he earned a doctorate in Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. Juan’s expertise is in digital signal processing, machine listening and music information retrieval, topics that he teaches and in which he has published more than 100 papers and articles in books, journals and conference proceedings. He is the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and of the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL). His work has been supported by public and private institutions in Venezuela, the UK, and the US, including Frontier and CAREER awards

from the National Science Foundation and a Fulbright scholar grant for multidisciplinary studies in France.

Research Description: The focus of my research is on the development of computational methods for making sense of the world through sound. In the urban context, my team develops audio-visual sensing platforms, machine learning methods and crowd-labeling strategies for the detection and classification of environmental sounds, with an emphasis on urban noise pollution monitoring at scale. Through our main initiative, the SONYC project, we collaborate with city agencies and community organizations in investigating how our technologies can be leveraged for enforcement, advocacy and noise mitigation efforts.

Karla Rodriguez Rory Meyers College of Nursing Karla Rodriguez, CNE, DNP, RN, is a clinical assistant professor at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is a certified nurse educator with a background in adult and pediatric medical-surgical populations. She has been a registered nurse since 1999 and an instructor in NYU's undergraduate nursing program since 2007. Her interests are in mobilizing patients back into the community and taking part in making positive lifestyle changes for lifelong health. Rodriguez earned her DNP from Quinnipiac University, MSN in nursing education from Phoenix University, and BSN from Long Island University.

Research Description: Health care professionals are held in high regard yet, when it comes to healthful eating, many have reported they had little to no education pertaining to diet and nutrition. A power point presentation was shared by the researchers in the study about Plant Based nutrition and its benefits. A quantitative descriptive study consisting of 15 items pre- and post-survey about their knowledge and beliefs pertaining to a plant-based diet was filled out. A total of 26 participants were in attendance. Twenty-three participants chose to take part in this survey based on the handouts returned. Quantitative findings from the pre-survey questions showed 34% of respondents agreed and 27% disagreed that they received nutrition education while in school. 42% strongly agreed while 15% agreed that chronic diseases can be prevented and even reversed with the use of lifestyle changes. There are many advantages in adopting a plant-based diet.

Krishnendu Ray Nutrition and Food Studies, Steinhardt

Krishnendu Ray is the Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at NYU. He was a faculty member and the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at The Culinary Institute of America. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table (2004), The Ethnic Restaurateur (2016), and the co-editor of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (2012). His most recent work is on street vending in global cities with attention to questions of law, livelihood, and liveliness of cities.

Research Description: In cities in low- to medium-income countries, 1-2% of the urban population is engaged in informal street vending. In New Delhi, for instance, that accounts for almost 300,000 self-employed street vendors, supporting over a million people in their households,

who are central to feeding the city, provisioning over 90% of households with produce and cooked food. Yet city planners never assume the presence of vendors in planning their cities, often assuming them to be problems that need to be removed for better flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. What are the instance where street vendors have been incorporated into urban planning, with positive consequences of livelihood generation, liveliness, resilience and safety, and how can those instances be extended as best practices in cities such as New Delhi, and other cities in the developing world, such as Bangkok, and Mexico City?

Magdalena Fuentes Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the Tandon School of Engineering

Magdalena Fuentes is an assistant professor/Dean’s fellow with a joint appointment between Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the Tandon School of Engineering. She obtained a BEng in Electrical Engineering at Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, in 2015 and a PhD in Music Information Retrieval in University Paris-Saclay, France, in 2019. Her research interests and expertise include machine listening, music information retrieval, machine learning and audio signal processing.

Research Description: The focus of my research is machine learning for urban scene understanding. I work developing machine learning methods to the automatic understanding of audio-visual scenes, in particular to identify different audio sources, their location and dynamics.

Lorna Thorpe School of Medicine

Lorna Thorpe, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Division of Epidemiology, as well as Vice Chair of Strategy and Planning in the Department of Population Health. Dr. Thorpe is a leading expert in population health surveillance and performing population-based studies. Her current research focuses on the intersection between epidemiology and policy, particularly with respect to chronic disease prevention and management and improving modern forms of public health surveillance. She is co-principal investigator of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a center aimed at reducing cardiovascular disease disparities through evaluation of innovative community-clinical linkage initiatives in low-income communities. She also serves as principal investigator of the New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES 2013) that aims to evaluate a number of municipal health policies launched in the past decade, as well as validate the use of electronic health records for population health surveillance purposes.

Research Description: Effective July 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development passed a rule requiring all public housing authorities to implement smoke-free housing (SFH) policies. As part of an NCI-funded natural experiment, we measured objective secondhand smoke (SHS) incursions before and after implementation of the SFH policy in a

purposeful sample of 21 high-rise buildings: 10 public buildings subject to the policy and 11 private sector buildings where many residents received housing subsidies, with no SFH policy (‘Section 8’ buildings).Preliminary nicotine concentration and cigarette butt quantification findings suggest slightly larger declines of SHS exposure in NYCHA hallways compared to Section 8 hallways from pre-policy levels to 12 months post-policy. There was no change in nicotine concentrations inside the apartments of non-smoking households. One year post- policy implementation, evidence suggests no change in nicotine concentrations in stairwells and homes in NYC public housing buildings, but nicotine concentrations in hallways may be decreasing.

Mary Killilea FAS Biology and Environmental Studies

Research Description: Mangroves are an important ecological and cultural resource in Abu Dhabi. These ecosystems have undergone periods of expansion and contraction throughout their history in Abu Dhabi. Our research is working to quantify the amount of change experienced in these ecosystems at various time periods. Quantification of these changing coastal ecosystems will be the first step to further understanding the ecological and social drivers that underpin mangrove conservation and management.

Marc Gourevitch Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH, is the Muriel and George Singer Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center. The focus of Dr. Gourevitch's work is on developing approaches that leverage both healthcare delivery and policy- and community-level interventions to advance the health of populations. Dr. Gourevitch leads the City Health Dashboard initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to equip city and community leaders with an accurate understanding of the health of their populations, including its social, economic, and environmental drivers, to support population health improvement. He directs NYU Langone’s participation in the New York City Clinical Data Research Network, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). In other research, he focuses on improving health outcomes among drug users and other underserved populations, including by integrating pharmacologic treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence into primary care. Dr. Gourevitch previously served as founding Director of NYU Langone’s Division of General Internal Medicine, and led NYU Langone’s CDC-funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research.

Research Description: Public health practitioners require granular data to inform local-level change. Although county-level data are readily available, standardized and comparable city- level data are not. The City Health Dashboard, a public-use data source, addresses this gap by providing access to over 35 measures of health, health determinants and equity for more than 500 U.S. cities. Recent research using this rich cities-oriented dataset: i) compares city-level

values for important public health metrics to county-level values for the same metrics; ii) analyzes life expectancy variation within and between the 500 cities; and, iii) describes variation in walkability across cities and how walkability varies by poverty and race/ethnicity. While primarily designed to inform city policymakers, the City Health Dashboard offers researchers new and valuable access to a large and continually refreshed set of city-level (and in many cases census-tract level) metrics to study health, drivers of health and health inequalities in US cities.

Maria-Monica Salazar Marron Institute of Urban Management

María Mónica Salazar Tamayo is a Research Scholar in the Urban Expansion program. Prior to moving to New York, she worked for the Marron Institute as an Urban Consultant for Latin America, supporting the implementation of the POT Modern Project in Colombia. She also served as an advisor for the General System of Royalties at the National Planning Department of Colombia, where she supported local governments in the implementation of local investment projects and intergovernmental transfer management. She has also worked on local development strategies, citizens participation, accountability and governance, and public policies both from the national and local perspectives. She has taught at Universidad Externado de Colombia and Universidad Sergio Arboleda classes in Public Policy Theory, Public Policy Design, and City Planning. María Mónica holds a Masters of Urban Planning from NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a Masters in Government and Public Policy from Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Research Description: The Inter American Development Bank (IDB) and the Marron Institute conducted a study of urban extents and the expansion of 6 metropolitan areas in Latin America. The purpose of this research was to gather data to contribute to a more comprehensive study to evaluate the real impact of Metropolitan governance entities in sustainable urban development throughout the Latin American continent. Most of the big cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have shown growth dynamics that surpass the political and administrative boundaries of the original municipalities. In this context, the research help to understand the role of metropolitan governance in managing urban growth in LAC metropolitan areas within a context of local administrative fragmentation.

Mark Cartwright Tandon Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Urban Science and Progress, Steinhardt Music and Audio Research Lab Mark Cartwright is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University, with affiliations to the Center for Urban Science and Progress and the Music and Audio Research Lab. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and machine learning applied to the audio domain. Specifically, he researches human-centered machine listening and audio processing tools that enable new interactions for creative expression through sound and for understanding the acoustic world at scale. Recently, his research has focused on the Sounds of New York City (SONYC), a project to monitor, analyze, and mitigate urban noise pollution with the aid of a smart acoustic sensor network. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University, and he holds an MA from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University.

Research Description: My research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and machine learning applied to the audio/music domains. In particular, I research human-centered machine listening and audio processing systems that enable new interactions for observing the acoustic world and expressing oneself through sound. For Urban Research Day, I would like to present my research as a member of the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project, in which I investigate two approaches for coping with limited labeled data for urban noise monitoring: efficiently collecting crowdsourced audio annotations and self-supervised representation learning in an acoustic sensor network.

Masoud Ghandehari Tandon, Civil and Urban

Masoud 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. His research focus is on urban systems engineering and the application of advanced instrumentation and data analysis targeting the aging, health and performance of infrastructure systems. Through the application of sensing, and modeling, he works on methodologies that generate data on the interaction of physical, natural and human systems in cities. 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. Professor Ghandehari is 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

Research Description: Exposure Assessment & the Urban Environment Impact of exposure to harmful environments is traditionally assessed at aggregated population levels. This prevents deeper understanding of cofactors such as baseline heath conditions, genetic disposition, housing condition, commuting routs, and other factors, all of which are best assessed at level

of individual. In this discussion we focus on the interplay between advances in environmental exposure assessment and developments in policy, highlighting recent progress in the granular measurement of air pollutants and individual-level exposure assessment. For more information see: Advancing Environmental Exposure Assessment Science to Benefit Society, NATURE Communications, 2019 People-centric Cognitive Internet of Things for the Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Exposure, IEEE Journal Internet of Things, 2018.

Rachel Atkins Management and Organizations NYU – Stern

Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations Department at the Stern School of Business. She received a Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy from The New School, an MPA from NYU, a Master of Government Administration from The University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S., summa cum laude, from West Chester University.

Research Description: In this study, I examine the relationship between housing wealth and black-white differences in firm starts. Empirical research on the housing collateral channel shows a positive relationship between increases in housing assets and entrepreneurship. Although blacks possess less housing wealth than whites in the US, the housing collateral channel literature does not examine whether access to this funding source or its efficacy vary by racial subgroup. Using PSID data from 2003 through 2013, my Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition estimates indicate that black-white differences in home equity account for approximately 13 percent of the black-white gap in firm starts among homeowners. Estimates from entrepreneurial choice models show that, conditional on homeownership, an increase in home equity is positively related to the probability of starting a business for whites but not for blacks. Thus, blacks who own home assets are less able to access the housing collateral channel than whites all else equal.

Pablo Hernandez-Lagos Social Science, NYU Abu Dhabi

Pablo Hernandez-Lagos is an Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He studies the economic forces underlying effective incentives within the firm, as well as global entrepreneurship, peace and prosperity. Media coverage of his work includes: The Financial Times on employee compensation and incentives; The Hill and The Times of India on the importance of technology and middle-class markets in India, China, Africa and Latin America for multinational firms; Voxeu.org on the origins of peace and prosperity (most read in August 2016) and Knowledge@Wharton on entrepreneurial spending and survival. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business (BPP group) and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Chile. He also holds a MSc in Applied Economics from the Universidad de Chile-CEA and a MSc in Business Administration from UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business. Prior to his doctoral studies, he participated in the creation of Chile’s National Innovation Strategy. He currently teaches a course titled “What Do Leaders Do?" He has also taught Corporate Finance and Mathematics for Social Scientists at NYU AD, Principles of Economics at the

Universidad de Los Andes, and graduate and undergraduate courses in management and strategy, as well as executive training to entrepreneurs outside academia. He co-founded ChileSeminars at UC Berkeley (academic speakers share their research with professionals and entrepreneurs).

Research Description: We examine the influence of Chinese cities’ artificial intelligence (AI) research across the world. AI is a dual-purpose technology (productive and military), and dual-purpose technologies have enabled cities’ development since the origins of civilization. We access all AI publications and citations of papers and patents and match them with socioeconomic variables. Our network encompasses all the cities in the world and cover more than 100 years. The main question is whether Chinese cities disrupt AI knowledge or merely follow the West’s lead. Results suggest that large Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai already produce technologies that make some Western cities’ AI research obsolete. But size is not everything. Less known cities such as Harbin or Changsha have already become hubs of AI research and business innovation. The consequences of having multiple large disruptors in the East and the West simultaneously has not yet seen in modern civilization.

Quanyan Zhu Tandon School of Engineering

Quanyan Zhu received B. Eng. in Honors Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2006, M. A. Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2008, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. After stints at Princeton University, he is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University (NYU). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU. He is a recipient of many awards, including NSF CAREER Award, NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS), and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowships. He spearheaded and chaired INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control on Smart Energy Systems (CCSES), Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (WCGT), and ICRA workshop on Security and Privacy of Robotics. His current research interests include game theory, machine learning, cyber deception, network optimization and control, Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems. He has served as the general chair or TPC chair of the 7th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) in 2016, the 9th International Conference on NETwork Games, COntrol and OPtimisation (NETGCOOP) in 2018, the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019) in 2019, and 2020 IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). His current research is supported by NSF, DoD, DOE, DHS, DOT, and DARPA.

Research Description: Authors: Quanyan Zhu (New York University) and Rae Zimmerman (Wagner School of Public Policy) Abstract. The demand for infrastructure-based service is growing to support urban societies, and these infrastructures are increasingly interdependent, that is, they are either spatially co-located or functionally dependent on one another. This creates vulnerabilities in normal times and during extreme events producing cascading failures. This research presents relationships among energy, transportation and water infrastructures and transformations of these relationships over time accidentally or through deliberate, planned actions. Scenarios are presented that portray how altering one infrastructure service can affect others under normal conditions and extreme events. The

interaction among these infrastructures and food supply chains is also addressed. Recommendations are suggested to reduce adverse consequences from interactions in terms of operational, design and human behavioral changes. Acknowledgements: NYU grant support from NSF (CRISP grant), NSF (URExSRN) through ASU, the U.S. DHS through University of Illinois CIRI center, and the U.S. DOT through NYU’s C2Smart Center.

Rae Zimmerman Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Rae Zimmerman is Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, after being a full-time professor for many years, directing Wagner’s Urban Planning Program five times. Since 1998, she has been Director of the School’s Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS), an interdisciplinary infrastructure center, initially with National Science Foundation (NSF) funding. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, past president and Fellow of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and recipient of SRA’s 2019 Distinguished Achievement Award and 2015 Outstanding Service Award. Recent appointments include member of the first and third New York City Panel on Climate Change and two National Academies committees. Her teaching and research encompass disaster and emergency planning, environmental quality, environmental health risk management, and urban infrastructure and their interconnections in the context of the quality of urban life. She authored or co-edited a half dozen books, including Transport, the Environment and Security, and authored or co-authored almost 200 other publications and research reports. Education: B.A. Chemistry, University of California (Berkeley), Master of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D Planning, Columbia University.

Research Description: Integrating New Transportation Technologies into Existing Travel Modes: the Case of Autonomous Vehicles Rae Zimmerman and Quanyan Zhu Public attention to automated vehicles (AV) is increasing. The success of AV introduction depends upon integrating AVs into existing travel modes and intermodal connectivity. Trip types potentially benefiting from AV, cost, dependability, and public acceptance are presented for AV adoption. This research incorporates trip purposes, travel modes by trip, number and connectivity of modes, and trip duration for first/last mile travel into a proposed framework for AV integration. Then AVs’ viability within this framework is evaluated based upon relative cost advantages, safety, alleviation of congestion, and other benefits. Competition from other travel modes, e.g., electric vehicles, is addressed. The research is based on synthesizing and categorizing literature and cases using a meta-analysis style. Acknowledgements: Grants to NYU from NSF (URExSRN and CRISP), U.S. DOT (NYU-C2Smart) and DHS (U. Ill CIRI).

Sonjaya Singh Gaur NYU School of Professional Studies Dr Sonjaya S Gaur joined the NYU School of Professional Studies on 1st November 2019. Before joining NYU, he was a Professor and Head of Marketing department at the Sunway University Business School, Malaysia. He has been the Director on the board of Bank of India (NZ) Limited during 2012-2017. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Sales and Marketing at the Department of Marketing, AUT School of Business, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. At AUT, he was also the head (academic leader) of the Sales Management area. Prior to joining AUT, he was an Associate Professor of Marketing at the SJM School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and Marketing discipline chair at the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Bombay. He has also consulted many multinational corporations including GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), Johnson & Johnson, HSBC, Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, RFCL, Geologistics India Ltd., 1mailspot.co.nz limited, Pajas Infopath, KMPL, SGS and Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. In recognition of his contributions as a teacher and educator, IBC Cambridge has conferred him with the distinction of being among the “Top 100 Educators 2008 of the World”, and “Leading Educators of the World”. Dr Gaur has also been conferred with the Award for Excellence in Teaching in Management at IIT Bombay. He has also received several “best paper” awards for his research including two from the American Marketing Association in 2017 and 2019.

Research Description: This study investigates consumer’s motives for using closet sharing services in order to satisfy their desire for luxury clothing brands. Thematic analytic procedure is carried out in six phases. Qualitative data in the form of testimonials from both renters and lenders were collected from Style Lend’s blog, also known as “The Style Lend Insider”. Findings indicate that there are three main categories of motives for closet sharing. These are hedonic, utilitarian and economic motives. Our study also provides theoretical and practical insights to relevant stakeholders related to the collaborative fashion consumption of luxury brands.

Sewin Chan NYU Wagner

Sewin Chan is Associate Professor of Public Policy at NYU Wagner. Her research focuses on economic and financial risks faced by households as they interact with housing, labor and credit markets. She has studied rental markets, mortgages, and housing market risk, consumer credit behavior, pensions, work and retirement decisions, job loss, geographic mobility, and accessible housing. Sewin is currently investigating the mobility decisions of young adults and the residential decisions of older households. She holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Research Description: We document a linkage between two empirical trends: the low levels of out-migration from weak labor markets, and the increasing rate at which young adults return to live with their parents (‘boomerang’). Using the American Community Survey, we show that boomerang moves are more likely to bring young adults to

labor markets with higher unemployment and lower wages. Using the geocoded Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a locational choice model, we find that the likelihood of a non- boomerang location being chosen by a young adult increases with local wages. However, for boomerang moves, wages have zero or a much smaller effect on the selection of locations, and the likelihood that a boomerang location is selected actually increases with the location’s unemployment level. This positive correlation with unemployment is substantive in magnitude and is highest for those without a college degree and for non-whites.

Shitong Qiao Law

Dr. Shitong Qiao is visiting NYU Law as the Jerome A. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law in the spring 2020 semester from the University of Hong Kong where he is a tenured associate professor of law. He served as Global Associate Professor of Law at NYU School of Law in Fall 2017. At the University of Hong Kong, he teaches comparative property law, law of cities, law and development, and Chinese law, and has won multiple research prizes and grants. He has also held visiting positions at Duke Law School and Peking University School of Transnational Law. Dr. Qiao is an expert on property and urban law with a focus on comparative law and China. In the past fifteen years, Dr. Qiao has conducted extensive fieldwork in multiple settings ranging from rural villages, urban villages, to urban middle class residential neighborhoods in China, exploring the interplay of law, social norms and the government’s role in these contexts. His first monograph, Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms, was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press and won the inaugural Masahiko Aoki Award for Economic Paper from Tsinghua University and was reviewed in leading international and Asian law journals. In dissertation form, it won the Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize (awarded annually to the best student paper written in law and economics at Yale Law School). His second monograph, The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China, is in progress and under contract with Cambridge University Press. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters. His research has been frequently cited by property and urban law theorists, scholars of China studies, and Chinese policy-makers and Supreme People’s Court justices, and has been covered by leading Chinese and English media.

Research Description: In the most unaffordable city in the world, only 4 percent of land is residential while 70% is country parks. However, reform efforts in the past two decades since the turnover have gone nowhere; or if anywhere, leading to public backlash which resulted in the resignation of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. It is a prevalent opinion that the ongoing political turmoil in Hong Kong is partly attributable to its housing crisis. We argue the opposite: Hong Kong’s housing crisis has been caused by a fragmented and gridlock political system which fails to pass through multiple veto points held by both public and private entities. In this sense, the ongoing housing crisis is a symptom of its failing political system instead of its reason. We extend Professor Michael Heller’s celebrated idea of the tragedy of the anticommons into the area of politics to describe the politics of land use in Hong Kong. This extension goes beyond Professor Heller’s focus on the allocation of property rights to the allocation of political and social power, and returns to latter’s impact on the former. … This article consists of four parts. Part I develops a theory of the tragedy of the political anticommons. Part II examines the ongoing housing crisis in Hong Kong and various

explanations of its origin. Part III presents our theory of the origin of the ongoing housing crisis. Part IV concludes.

Shlomo Angel Marron Institute

Shlomo Angel is a Professor of City Planning at the Marron Institute. He leads the NYU Urban Expansion based at the Marron Institute and the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. Angel is an expert on urban development policy, having advised the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He currently focuses on documenting and planning for urban expansion in the developing world. In 1973, he started a program in Human Settlements Planning and Development at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He taught at the Institute from 1973 to 1983, while researching housing and urban development in the cities of East, South, and Southeast Asia. From the mid-80s to mid-90s, he worked as a housing and urban development consultant to UN-Habitat, the Asian Development Bank, and the Government of Thailand. In 2000, he published Housing Policy Matters, a comparative study of housing conditions and policies around the world. From 2000 onward, he prepared housing sector assessments of 11 Latin America and Caribbean countries for the IDB and the World Bank.

Research Description: In order to densify meaningfully in the coming decades, cities need to make room within their existing footprints to accommodate more people. In the absence of adequate room within their existing footprints, cities create more room through the outward expansion of their present footprints. In this article, we introduce a quantitative dimension to this process, focusing on the shares of the population added to a global stratified sample of 200 cities between 1990 and 2015; estimating the shares of these added populations that were accommodated within their 1990 urban footprints; and comparing these shares to the shares accommodated in expansion areas, areas built between 1990 and 2000 and between 2000 and 2014. While overall densities in the 200 cities in the sample declined significantly in both time periods as they expanded, we find that in half of the cities we studied the 1990 urban footprints densified significantly. On average, slightly over half of the population added to these cities between 1990 and 2014 was accommodated through the densification of these 1990 footprints while the rest were accommodated in expansion areas. We present several findings that expand on these results and discuss their policy and planning implications.

Sylvia Maier NYU School of Professional Studies Dr. Sylvia Maier is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Center for Global Affairs where she directs the MSGA Concentration in Global Gender Studies, the Global Field Intensive to the United Arab Emirates, and serves as faculty adviser to the MSGA Gender Working Group. Sylvia’s principal fields of interest and expertise are women’s rights in the Middle East, South Central Asia, and the Gulf States, with a particular focus on the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan, where she has taught and conducted extensive field research. Sylvia is especially interested in women’s culturally-situated strategies of (self-) empowerment and modes of resistance to patriarchy in deeply traditional societies, the “globalization-empowerment nexus” in the Gulf States, and the politics of integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe, chiefly the legal responses to cultural diversity and honor-based violence against women. Her co-edited book titled EU Development Policies: Between Norms and Geopolitics has just been published by Palgrave. Sylvia’s new research project, Making Cities Work for Women, is a comparative study of feminist urbanism in global cities—Berlin, Dubai, Vienna, New York—and explores in what ways feminist activists are influencing cities’ urban planning and design processes to reflect the needs, preferences, and lived realities of urban women.

Complementing her academic work, Sylvia is the co-founder and deputy editor-in-chief of Women Across Frontiers, a digital women’s rights magazine, and serves as Director of Education Programs as well as on the board of The Peace Project, Inc.

Research Description: In this presentation, which forms part of a larger comparative study of feminist urbanism in five global cities (Berlin, Vienna, Dubai, London, New York), Sylvia will discuss the extent to which the lived realities of women are formally included in Vienna’s and Berlin’s urban planning, design and public consultation processes on the city and borough levels as women exercise their “right to the city” (Lefebvre 1968) in order to achieve a socially just and inclusive urban space.

This project is based on the premise that an inclusive city must not stop at important but small changes relevant for women, such as designated parking spaces, better street lighting, curb cuts, and green markets, but cater to the existential needs of all its dwellers. Feminist urbanism proposes one such approach to holistic, inclusive, socially just urban planning. Berlin and Vienna, two of the great global cities, have regularly spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives on equality and inclusion. This project intends to ascertain if these two cities are once again pioneers in social justice.

Stanislav Sobolevsky CUSP Stanislav Sobolevsky is an Associate Professor of Practice and Director of Urban Complexity Lab at the Center for Urban Science + Progress at New York University and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With quantitative degrees - PhD (1999) and Doctor of Science habilitation (2009) in Mathematics earned in Belarus – his research interests lay on the crossroads of urban data science, network analysis and machine learning. Dr. Sobolevsky studies human mobility and social interactions through their digital traces and teaches Applied Data Science, Machine Learning For Cities, Urban Science Intensive, Urban Science Research Seminar, Networks Analysis, advising multiple masters and PhD students in US and abroad. Authored over a 100 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, 3 patents, 3 monographs and textbooks. His applied projects on transportation modeling, connected and autonomous systems, trajectory mining, anomaly, pattern and vulnerability detection in temporal urban networks are supported by foundations including US Department Of Energy, US Department Of Transportation, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and industrial partners, including Lockheed Martin, Future Cities Catapult, Arcadis, Mastercard.

Research Description: Detecting patterns and emergent phenomena in temporal networks of urban mobility and human interactions Detection of regular patterns as well as early- detection of anomalous developments in temporal urban networks, e.g. indicating major disruptions or emergent phenomena in urban mobility or social interactions, including those which might constitute potential threats to public safety, is a challenge of a critical importance. We address the problem by building a network representation framework fusing network analysis and deep representation learning approaches with elements of transfer learning. The approach is successfully evaluated in application to social network activity analysis and for-hire-vehicle ridership around major transportation hubs in New York City. The results demonstrate scalability of the proposed approach across datasets and geographies. The approach is readily applicable for other types of temporal networks, e.g. representing dynamics of financial markets, epidemic outbreaks or brain activity.

Stella S. Yi Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health Stella S. Yi, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Section for Health Equity in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Yi is a cardiovascular epidemiologist, and her work focuses on community, clinical and policy-based initiatives for the reduction of chronic disease morbidity and mortality. She possesses a unique viewpoint on health, policy and research that encompasses both a citywide big-picture, perspective paired with an understanding of specific health needs of disparity subgroups. Her areas of expertise include applied epidemiology in practice, lifestyle behaviors such as diet and physical activity for reducing chronic disease risk, and Asian American health disparities.

Research Description: I propose to present my research on diet in immigrant populations - with a particular focus on Chinese Americans and/or NYC. More specifically, I'll share our formative research on diet and food retail/grocery shopping behaviors in Chinese immigrants; description of a new community-facing, family-based nutrition education initiative we are launching in Brooklyn; and preliminary findings from analyses related to the effects of citywide policies on nutrition - including public charge/SNAP and Chinatown detention center construction/food access.

Supriya Misra School of Global Public Health

Supriya Misra is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Global Public Health. She earned her Sc.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and her M.A. and B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.

Research Description: Psychotic disorders are a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality. Decades of global research, particularly from Europe, indicate that ethnic minorities have a higher incidence of psychotic disorders than the ethnic majority. Evidence to date suggests this is due to more prevalent, more severe, and more cumulative experiences of social adversities. In the United States, Black Americans also have higher rates compared to White Americans, but this is more commonly attributed to clinician bias and misdiagnosis and tends to neglect social and structural factors. We propose that our limited understanding of U.S. patterns of psychotic disorders is due to the failure of prior research to move beyond issues of poverty, income inequality, and health care access and quality and to delineate the ways in which, historically and currently, structural racism has shaped social factors, and made additional contributions through residential segregation, discriminatory incarceration, racialized police violence, and immigration policy.

Tae Hong Park Steinhardt, Dept. of Music and Performing Arts Professions, Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL)

Tae Hong Park is a composer, music technologist, and bassist. His work focuses on composition of electro-acoustic and acoustic music, machine learning and computer-aided music analysis, research in multi-dimensional aspects of timbre, and audio digital signal processing. Dr. Park has presented his music at national and international conferences and festivals including Bourges, ICMC, MATA, SCIMF, and SEAMUS. Among the ensembles and performers that have played his work are the Brentano String Quartet, California E.A.R. Unit, Edward Carroll, Ensemble Surplus, Zoe Martlew, Nash Ensemble of London, and the Tarab Cello Ensemble. Professor Park is author of Introduction to Digital Signal Processing: Computer Musically Speaking (World Scientific, 2010). He is the Chief Editor of Journal SEAMUS, serves as Editiorial Consultant for Computer Music Journal, served as President of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), and is Director of NYU Steinhardt's Composition program. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Research Description: Environmental footprints generated by human and machine activity largely define modern urban environments, many of which produce measurable pollutants. What is distinctively troublesome, however, is aircraft noise pollution, classified as the most disruptive noise source amongst standard transportation groups. For example, at Chicago O’Hare Airport, monthly noise complaints have risen from 201 to 460,189 between 2008 and 2017, according to the Chicago Dept. of Aviation. Despite the extraordinary rise in aircraft noise complaints, assessing community aircraft noise is challenging, as key socio- technological dimensions need to be resolved and carefully integrated for meaningful noise mitigation policies to emerge. The main objective of the current project is to create a smart, data-driven, and community-driven aircraft noise sensing system to better understand when, where, and why aircraft sound turns into noise. We report on our integrative research that renders noise assessment tools, methods, models, and outputs and current partnerships with community organizations.

Timothy H. Savage Schack Institute of Real Estate

Tim is a clinical assistant professor of real estate at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, where he is the Program Coordinator of Data Science and the Faculty Director of Hirsh Fellows. He is the former Senior Managing Economist and Principal Data Scientist of CBRE Econometric Advisors. His general focus is the use of machine learning to evaluate business strategy. He speaks frequently to institutional investors in commercial real estate on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and the potential impacts of big data and technological change. His commentary has appeared in the Economist and the Wall Street Journal. He is a research fellow of the NAIOP Research Foundation, where he provides industrial and office demand forecasting for the benefit of the industry. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Research Description: The research exams the critical role of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in the urban built space. It provides both positive and negative examples. If structured property PPPs can lead to real estate development for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Vasant Dhar CDS, Stern

Vasant Dhar is an Artificial Intelligence researcher and data scientist whose research addresses the following question: when do we trust AI systems with decision making? The question is particularly relevant to autonomous machine-learning-based systems that learn and adapt with ongoing data. Dhar’s research has been motivated by a building predictive models in a number of domains including finance where he founded one of the first automated machine learning based hedge funds in the 90s, as well as areas such as healthcare, sports, education, and business. Professor Dhar teaches courses on Systematic Investing, Prediction, Data Science, and Foundations of FinTech. He has written over 100 research articles, funded by grants from industry and government agencies such as the National Science Foundation. Professor Dhar received his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, and his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.

Research Description: Analysis of traffic patterns in urban Indian cities to help urban planners mitigate rising traffic density and increase in the number of "choke points" in cities. The analysis attempts to identify determinants of choke points and provide urban planners with actionable recommendations.

Yu Chen Department of Population Health, School of Medicine

I am a chronic disease epidemiologist involved in multidisciplinary research that focuses on how host and environmental factors are related to chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. For the past 18 years, I have worked with colleagues from Columbia University and the University of Chicago to study health effects of arsenic exposure in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) in Bangladesh. Recently, I have been leading a project with colleagues at Vanderbilt University to investigate the role of the gastric and oral microbiome in gastric premalignant and malignant lesions. I also conduct research using resources from the NYU Women’s Health Study and the Asia Cohort Consortium. I am a recipient of the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. I direct a course on epidemiology methods for graduate students at NYU School of Medicine. I received my PhD with distinction in epidemiology from Columbia University in 2005. As of 2018, I have authored more than 170 journal articles.

Research Description: I work on projects related to chronic disease epidemiology. We have a cohort of 14000 women followed up since 1985 with residential history. We are interested in investigating how urban features are related to health, such as how neighborhood walkability is related to mortality and chronic disease risk.

Zhan Guo NYU Wagner

Zhan has conducted empirical work in Boston, London, Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, etc. His work has been covered by New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Economist, Le Monde, ABC Evening News, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, the Atlantic Cities, Nudges.org, etc. Zhan Guo received a B. Arch from Tianjin University, a MUD from Tsinghua University, China, and a MCP and a Ph.D in Urban Planning from MIT.

Research Description: Ride-hailing services and parking violations in New York City This research aims at exploring one potential ride-hailing services impact, taking the two biggest ridesharing companies Uber & Lyft as examples: whether daily Uber & Lyft trips affect New York City (NYC)’s parking violations. NYC daily Uber & Lyft trips, parking tickets data and some additional data were collected and aggregated by taxi zones. Initial results showed a negative correlation between the number of Uber & Lyft trips and parking tickets.

Keundeok Park PhD in Civil Engineering Civil and Urban Engineering I have completed my bachelor's and master's in Urban Planning at Hanyang University and worked as a research assistant at Urban Design and Spatial Analysis Lab. During the time, I involved several projects which are related to built environments and health. As a natural extension to the projects, I published the effects of the built environment on depression symptoms in the Journal of the Korea Planning Association, working with the medical school of Hanyang University. While I was writing a master's thesis, I studied Python and Javascript myself and I decided to take the formal courses relevant to the data analytics. Thus, I took the master's program at NYU CUSP and finally I am studying here in Civil and Urban Engineering as a Ph.D. student. Research Description: The research is developing an automated approach for quantifying human perception toward built environments regarding the sense of

restorativeness in urban settings. Since the restorative value of urban design has direct effects on mental fatigue, stress indicators, and quality of life of urban dwellers, quantification of such physical environments' restorativeness capabilities plays an important role in terms of the overall well-being of the city residents. In this study, we are using 6,000 street-level imagery (360 panoramas) near the Washington Square Park and 15 MetroTech area and crowdsourcing methods to collect perception regarding restorativeness. With collected evaluated images, we analyze the impacts of the urban design features on the restorativeness capacities using computer vision and deep learning. As a result, we expect that the result will show the effects of each urban design feature and the current map of evaluated streets in New York City.

Mackenzie D.M. Whipps PhD in Psychology and Social Intervention Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Applied Psychology I am a current doctoral candidate in Psychology and Social Intervention at New York University’s Steinhardt School. My research interests lie at the intersection of Public Health, Social Psychology, and Prevention Science. I’ve worked as a birth doula, postpartum doula, and childbirth educator for a decade, and I am certified as a Lactation Counselor. My work focuses on parenting behaviors, context, and health equity. My most recent research has focused on the basic social science of breastfeeding and bed sharing. I have also collaborated on the implementation and evaluation of a number of parenting programs, including those targeting book sharing, attachment quality, maternal mental health, and childbirth education. I am especially interested in innovative approaches to bringing parenting interventions to scale in the U.S. context. I have a passion for reproductive justice; I currently serve on the Board of Directors for The Doula Project and lead the Steering Committee for the Breastfeeding Students Empowerment Network of NYU. Research Description: Our team examined the influence of housing -- including housing security and housing conditions -- on an important public health indicator: exclusive breastfeeding. Previous research has found that factors associated with urban environments can impact successful breastfeeding; the effects of housing, however, are relatively understudied. In this study, we examined the predictive associations between urban housing security (using a multidimensional measurement approach), as well as individual indicators of housing conditions (over-crowding and chaos in the home), on breastfeeding intentions and actual breastfeeding behaviors for a sample of Medicaid-eligible families in Pittsburgh and New York City. We found

that housing insecurity predicts less-exclusive breastfeeding directly, as well as through changes to breastfeeding intention. Crowding, meanwhile, predicted more- exclusive breastfeeding intention, but did not directly predict breastfeeding behaviors. Understanding how features of urban living can act as barriers or facilitators to healthy infant feeding is crucial to promoting public health in America's cities.

Spenser Gwozdzik PhD in Public Administration Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Spenser Gwozdzik is a second-year doctoral student at NYU Wagner. His background is in education policy, and he previously worked as a research associate at the Tennessee State Board of Education with a focus on teacher policy. His current research interests lie at the intersection of education policy and social policy in the urban context, with a particular emphasis on the role housing policy plays. He holds an A.B. in Public Policy from Duke University and an A.M. in Urban Education Policy from Brown University. Research Description: Middle school is widely regarded as emotionally and socially challenging for many students, but it may be particularly difficult for students with disabilities (SWDs). Does it get better when these students move to high school? This paper examines the change in student perceptions of school environment for SWDs and their general education peers (GENs), as well as changes in the SWD-GEN gap, to shed light on whether (and how) high school climate improves for SWDs and their GEN peers. Our analysis uses longitudinal student-level data for five cohorts of 7th through 10th grade students enrolled in NYC public schools from 2006-07 through 2011-12. These rich administrative data provide sufficient power to analyze differences between SWDs and GENs in middle and high school and to explore heterogeneity in this relationship. Descriptive regression analyses provide systemic assessment of whether differences occur based on SWD status, either overall or for certain populations.

Zhuoya Shi PhD in Civil Engineering Department of Civil and Urban Engineering The urban façade inspection program is crucial to ensure public safety, especially in densely populated cities like New York City. This research used a Natural Language Processing algorithm to analyse all the digital façade inspection reports submitted to the Department of Buildings and extracted the three groups of key information so that the façade inspectors checked for the façade safety condition evaluation. The defects identified on the façade, the building elements that hold the defects, and the attributes of the defects. The most problematic building elements and the most frequently happened defects were identified for different types of façade. The mapping relationship among the key information are identified, which can help to develop a model-based façade inspection data management and visualization. Research Description: My research project aims to propose a computational approach that utilizes BIM and point cloud data to help with the façade inspection projects in densely populated cities. 09/ 2017 – Present: New York University (Ph.D. in Civil Engineering) 08/2015 – 08/2017: University of Southern California (Master of Science in Construction Engineering) 09/2014 – 07/2015: Chang’An University, China (Master of Science in Architecture and Civil Engineering) 09/2010 – 07/2014: Chang’An University, China (Bachelor Degree of Engineering in Construction Cost).

Erin M Brent EdD in Higher Education Administration NYU College of Dentistry, Associate Dean Finance and Academic Planning & Strategic Initiatives My research interests include higher education finance, return on investment for higher education and how it may be related to student demand. I have worked in higher education finance for 14 years, first in the Finance Office at New York University and then as the Associate Dean for Financial and Academic Planning and Strategic Initiatives for NYU College of Dentistry. Before NYU, I forecasted business tax revenue for NYC in the NYC Office of Management and Budget. My graduate work was in Public Finance at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and my undergraduate work was in Political Science at Duke University. I also interview candidates for undergraduate admission for Duke University. Research Description: I use data from the American Dental Association and IPEDS to investigate trends in dental school enrollment since the 1980s. Further, I use ADA data to assess the price sensitivity of first-year students at U.S. dental schools from 2011 - 2017. My research shows great stratifications across U.S. dental institutions: more expensive schools have higher rates of applications, admittances, and enrollment but lower yield rates. Across all U.S. dental schools, my research shows less student diversity at more expensive schools but no significant relationship between changes in tuition and student diversity over time. My results indicate fewer African American and Hispanic/Latino students enroll in expensive dental schools, across all schools and in the public and private sub-groups. On the contrary, Asian students are more likely to enroll in higher priced U.S. dental schools. Finally, my results suggest fewer female students enroll in higher priced schools, and fewer female students enroll as tuition increases.

URBAN INITIATIVE CO-DIRECTORS

Thomas Sugrue, Chair NYU Arts & Science, Collaborative on Global Urbanism Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an elected member of the Society of American Historians, and past president of both the Urban History Association and the Social Science History Association. He taught from 1991-2015 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was David Boies Professor of History and Sociology and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum.

Daniel Neill CUSP, Wagner & Courant Institute Daniel B. Neill is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Courant Institute Department of Computer Science, and Associate Professor of Urban Analytics at NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress. He was previously a tenured faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, where he was the Dean’s Career Development Professor, Associate Professor of Information Systems, and Director of the Event and Pattern Detection Laboratory. Daniel's research focuses on developing new methods for machine learning and event detection in massive and complex datasets, with applications ranging from medicine and public health to law enforcement and urban analytics He works closely with organizations including public health, police departments, hospitals, and city leaders to create and deploy data-driven tools and systems to improve the quality of public health, safety, and security, for example, through the early detection of disease outbreaks and through predicting and preventing hot-spots of violent crime.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi Gallatin Gianpaolo Baiocchi is a sociologist and an ethnographer interested in questions of politics and culture, critical social theory, and cities. He has written about and continues to research instances of actually existing civic life and participatory democracy. His most recent work is Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation (Stanford University Press, 2016), which he co-authored with Ernesto Ganuza. The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (co-authored with Elizabeth Bennett, Alissa Cordner, Stephanie Savell, and Peter Klein; Paradigm Publishers, 2014) examines the contours and limits of the democratic conversation in the US today. He is also the author, along with Patrick Heller and Marcelo K. Silva, of Bootstrapping Democracy: Experiments in Urban Governance in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Militants and Citizens: Local Democracy on a Global Stage in Porto Alegre (Stanford University Press, 2005). He is the editor of Radicals in Power: Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil (Zed Press, 2003). An engaged scholar, Baiocchi was one of the founders of the Participatory Budgeting Project and continues to work with groups improving urban democracy. He heads Gallatin’s Urban Democracy Lab, which launched in 2014 and which provides a space for scholars and practitioners to collaborate and exchange ideas for cultivating just, sustainable, and creative urban futures.

FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Kris Day, Vice Provost

Dr. Day’s academic background focuses on the role of built environment to influence human behavior and well-being; her specific research has examined urban planning and design strategies to encourage walking and physical activity, focusing on cities in the US and China. She has also studied ways in which public spaces can be safer and more inclusive for women and people of color. Dr. Day has been at NYU since 2010; as a faculty member in the Tandon School of Engineering, she served as the Associate Dean of Academic Administration. In this position, she oversaw faculty hiring and promotion, professional development, and diversity and inclusion.

Prior to joining the Tandon faculty, Dr. Day was professor of urban planning at the University of California, Irvine. At UC Irvine, she served as university-wide Director of Community Engagement. She is past Chair of the Environmental Design Research Association, and was a fellow of the American Council on Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Architecture (Environment-Behavior Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Joel Steckel, NYU Stern

Professor Steckel has been with NYU for more than 20 years. His primary research areas of interest include marketing research, marketing and branding strategy, approaches for one-to-one marketing, managerial decision processes and methodologies for measuring consumer performance and behavior. Professor Steckel has published numerous articles in publications including Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Science, Interfaces and Journal of Consumer Research.

He was the founding president of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science. Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Steckel held professorial positions at University of California at Los

Angeles and the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Marketing Letters.

At NYU Stern, Professor Steckel is the Vice Dean for Doctoral Education. Previously he served at chair of the Marketing Department.

Professor Steckel received his bachelor of arts in mathematics from Columbia University and his master of business administration in management science and his doctor of philosophy in marketing/statistics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton.

Kimberley Johnson, NYU Arts & Science

Kimberley Johnson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Affiliate Faculty Member of the Wagner School of New York University. Johnson’s research focuses on American and urban political development, urban and local politics, and race and ethnic politics. Johnson is the author of two books, Reforming Jim Crow (2010) and Governing the American State (2007) and numerous articles on American political development and its intersection with racial and ethnic politics. Current research projects focus on African American urban and suburban politics. Johnson is completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled, Dark Concrete, exploring the development of black power urbanism in Newark and East Orange, New Jersey and Oakland and East Palo Alto, California.

Clayton Gillette, NYU Law and Marron Institute of Urban Management

Clayton Gillette is the Director of NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management and the Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at the NYU School of Law. Gillette teaches in the areas of local government law, commercial law, and contracts. As Director of the Marron Institute, Gillette oversees programs in which Marron faculty members work directly with localities, other governmental entities, and private parties to improve the delivery of municipal services.

He is the author of Local Redistribution and Local Democracy: Interest Groups and the Courts, and co-author of Local Government Law: Cases and Materials (with Lynn Baker), and Municipal Debt Finance Law (with Robert S. Amdursky and Allen G. Bass). He has written numerous articles on various aspects of local government law, with particular focus on municipal finance. Gillette’s work in local government explores subjects ranging from the appropriate degree of municipal fiscal autonomy, to the scope of home rule, to the appropriate allocation of municipal resources among residents, creditors, and other stakeholders in municipal bankruptcy.

Eric Klinenberg, NYU Arts & Science

Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He’s also editor of the journal Public Culture, and an affiliated faculty member of the Wagner School of Public Service and the Department of Media, Culture, and Communications. Klinenberg is currently leading a major research project on climate change and the future of cities. Part of this work involves a sociological investigation of Superstorm Sandy and the challenge of adapting to the emerging age of extreme, dangerous weather. “Adaptation,” the first article from this research, appeared in the New Yorker in 2013. At NYU, Professor Klinenberg teaches courses on cities, climate change, culture, and media, as well as graduate seminars on research methods, ethnography, and urban design.

Michael Lindsey, McSilver Institute for Poverty, Policy, and Research

Dr. Michael A. Lindsey is a noted scholar in the field of child and adolescent mental health, as well as a leader in the search for knowledge and solutions to generational poverty and inequality. He is the Executive Director of McSilver Institute, the Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. He also leads a university- wide Strategies to Reduce Inequality initiative from the McSilver Institute.

Dr. Lindsey’s current research, which is funded by the Robin Hood Foundation, involves the delivery of an innovative intervention aimed at decreasing PTSD and depression symptoms and improving positive parenting skills in child-welfare involved mothers with trauma-related disorders. As a child and adolescent mental health services researcher, he has received research support from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop and test the Making Connections Intervention, a treatment engagement intervention that promotes access to and use of mental health services among depressed and traumatized teens in schools.

Katherine O’Regan, NYU Wagner

Katherine O'Regan is Professor of Public Policy and Planning at NYU Wagner. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Public Policy Program and Faculty Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She spent April, 2014-January, 2017 in the Obama Administration, serving as the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and spent ten years teaching at the Yale School of Management prior to joining the Wagner faculty in 2000. She teaches courses in microeconomics, poverty, program evaluation, and urban economics, and has received teaching awards from Berkeley, Yale, and NYU.

Semiha Ergan, NYU Wagner

Semiha Ergan is a faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Urban Engineering with a courtesy appointment at NYU Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is also an associated faculty member at Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Prior to joining NYU, she was a research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her Ph.D.

Caran Hartsfield, NYU Tisch

Caran Hartsfield is an award winning screenwriter and director. Her film work has won awards at the Director’s Guild of America, Sundance Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival (among others). Her feature screenplay, Bury Me Standing, won the Sundance NHK Award, the Sundance Annenberg Award, the IFP Parks Screenplay Award, The Media Arts Grant (formally known as the Rockefeller Grant), and was a part of the Cannes Film Festival L’Atelier. Bury Me Standing was workshopped at the prestigious Sundance Screenwriter's Lab and later went on to the Sundance Filmmaker’s Lab. Professor Hartsfield has also won numerous honors and awards for writing and directing Double-Handed, Kiss it up to God, King, and Six Things I Never Told You including: 2nd Place at Cannes Film Festival, the Director’s Guild of America Award, “The Best of Sundance Film Tour”, the Martin Scorsese Fellowship, the Spike Lee Fellowship, the Warner Brothers Grant, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Film Fellowship, among others. She is currently in development on her next feature, Red Moon, Blue Cat as well as a new television series Human Resources.

Professor Hartsfield received her Bachelors of Arts from Hampton University and her Masters of Fine Arts from New York University’s Graduate Film Department. She has been teaching writing and directing film for over 15 years.

2019-2020 URBAN DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Folarin Ajibade Folarin Ajibade is a second year doctoral student in History. He specializes in the history of contemporary Africa, the African Diaspora, and their interrelatedness. Broadly, he is interested in how ideas of political economy, spatiality, and mass culture inform the socioeconomic lives of people situated within urban sites. He is currently working on a dissertation project about the longue durée history of gambling in urban Lagos.

Malcolm Araos Malcolm Araos is a doctoral candidate in Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, focusing on the sociology of climate change. He studies how cities adapt to climate impacts to reduce the vulnerability of their residents and protect their infrastructures. He focuses specifically on new forms of public participation and expertise that cities use in these processes. He is also interested in questions of climate justice: in the face of escalating climate crisis, who will receive protection to remain in place, who will be forced to move, and at what point will communities begin to contemplate a retreat? His research appears in Environmental Science & Policy and Nature Climate Change, among other journals. He is also a Contributing Author to the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees, and has articles in The Atlantic’s CityLab, the National Post, and MacLean’s.

Noor Maria Bey-Jones Noor is a doctoral candidate in the Urban Education program within the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and a predoctoral fellow with the Ford Foundation. She is the program director of EXCEL at NYU, a critical literacy and college access program for youth in the South Bronx, housed at the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. Noor has served as an educational equity consultant for NYU and the NYC DOE staff and administrators with the Center for Strategic Solutions. Additionally, she is a founding member of Dr. Carol Gilligan’s Radical Listening Project and a researcher on the Mathematics Learning Pathways with Dr. Jasmine Ma. Noor received an M.A. in Sociology of Education from New York University and a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her experiences as a student, educator, researcher and program director have equipped her with diverse skills and critical perspectives to design research and curriculum that is culturally relevant, responsive, and human-centered. As a transdisciplinary scholar, Noor engages across the disciplines of sociology, education, African American and diaspora studies, American studies, cultural studies, visual culture, and the learning sciences to examine issues of liminality, identity, space, and power. Her dissertation work examines intergenerational knowing of Black women and girls navigating in and out of schools. In her spare time, she loves to cook, dance, run marathons, travel, and stir up good vibes.

Alex Cobb Boodrookas Alex Boodrookas is a doctoral candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies in FAS. His dissertation, “The Making of a Migrant Working Class: Contesting Citizenship in the Persian Gulf, 1925- 1975,” traces how struggles over citizenship and migration shaped popular politics, everyday life, and processes of state formation in the midcentury Gulf. Focusing on Kuwait, he examines how labor and nationalist movements deployed the rhetorics of citizenship to demand popular participation in government and the creation of comprehensive social safety nets. These struggles not only revolutionized the material quality of life in the Gulf, but altered the global trajectory of decolonization. He has also published work on urban space, organized labor, and the history of U.S. research libraries.

Diego Correa Diego is a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at the C2SMART center at the Tandon School of Engineering. He is presently working on his Ph.D. dissertation on transportation planning and sustainability problems, focusing on big data analytics, travel demand modeling, and the spatial supply and demand effects of for-hire vehicles before and after ride-sourcing became widely available in North America. Diego’s innovative approach to mobility has been recognized by the Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE as the Dr. Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Education Awardee, by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America ITS-NJ as the Outstanding Graduate Student Awardee, by the National Operations Center of Excellence NOCoE, as the TSM&O Student Champion, and by the Rudin Center at NYU, as an Emerging Leader in Transportation. He was also President of the ITE NYU’s student chapter. Diego holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Cuenca in Ecuador. He also holds an MCRS in Transportation Engineering from The Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation) from Rutgers University.

Sabrina Dycus Sabrina Dycus is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology of FAS, with research interests in law and society, science and technology atudies, the sociology of knowledge, and social theory. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study how courts respond to the introduction of new adjudicatory techniques, such as the rollout of videoconference technology in immigration courts. She also uses qualitative methods to explore how administrative adjudicatory bodies operate as sites of social control and how pro se litigants, particularly pro se litigants who are incarcerated, develop legal expertise. Sabrina is a licensed attorney and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.A. from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Before beginning her doctoral program, Sabrina was in private practice.

Kate Hausdorff Kate Hausdorff is a doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center. She is interested in urban economics and, in particular, developing research around low-income housing policy and homelessness. Currently she is working on a project examining the impacts of Source of Income Discrimination Laws on housing voucher-holders’ outcomes. Prior to her doctoral work, Kate worked as a Senior Analyst at Abt Associates conducting policy- relevant research. She holds an M.S. in Economics from Tufts University.

Katherine Hoffman Katherine Hoffmann Pham is a doctoral candidate in Information Systems at the Stern School of Business. Her research focuses on how big data, technology, and machine learning can be used to address policy problems. Her thesis studies the digital future of urban mobility, examining the relationship between ridesharing and public transportation during subway disruptions in New York City, as well as the parking behavior of e-scooter users in a large European city. She is also a Data Fellow with UN Global Pulse, where she has conducted research studying migrant and refugee movements using artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Stern she completed a B.A. in International Relations and Economics and an M.A. in International Policy Studies at Stanford, and spent four years working on randomized controlled trials with Innovations for Poverty Action.

Anisa Jackson Anisa Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Seattle, Washington. They are a first year American Studies doctoral student in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis in FAS. Their interests include critical poverty studies, housing and urbanism, and geographies of embodiments as a way to ask questions about affect, coalition building, and transformational politics. Their work has appeared as installation, moving image, performance, and as print and digital text. Anisa is a member of the Relational Poverty Network and received their B.A. in Geography from the University of Washington in 2015.

Don Jayamaha Don Jayamaha is a sixth year doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics in FAS, with research interests in macroeconomics and urban economics. His dissertation investigates the extent to which differences in land-use restrictions, through their impact on house prices, act as a barrier to labor mobility. Prior to NYU, he completed his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and enjoyed a tropical childhood in Sri Lanka. Currently on the job market, Don looks forward to a career in academia, studying the changing nature of cities and the migration patterns between them.

Zhenhuan (Reed) Lei Zhenhuan is a doctoral candidate in Political Science in the Department of Politics at New York University. He studies comparative political economy with a regional focus on China, and his substantive research interests include bureaucracy, distributive politics, infrastructure investment, judicial politics, political centralization, public finance, and state-business relations. In his dissertation project, he examines why politicians who enjoy relatively short tenures have (or do not have) incentives to initiate long-term, large-scale infrastructure projects in China and the United States.

Aanchal Modani Aanchal Modani is a doctoral candidate in the Silver School of Social Work. A native of India, she studies the impact of violence and marginalization on mental illness presentation, treatment preference and choices, community engagement and integration, and healthcare system organization. She has served as a Clinical Research Coordinator at New York State Psychiatric Institute in Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Division, where she worked on an NIMH grant studying neuropsychological and biological markers of suicide and depression. Aanchal has also worked on a mental health needs-assessment study of home-based female sex workers in rural parts of India, which fueled her passion to work with women who often experience violence and discrimination that result in negative mental health outcomes. She holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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