At NYU Tandon, we’re exploring and developing new modes of communication that are impacting not only the worlds of art and entertainment but education, business, and healthcare. New York is the heart of the media universe, and NYU Tandon has its finger on the pulse.

Integrated Digital Media The Online NYU Tandon’s IDM program is a STEAM Transparency Project engine, driving creative practice, Social media’s oversized role in shaping experimentation, media design, and the 2016 election prompted Computer engineering. Our projects include using Science and Engineering Assistant motion capture technology to re-imagine Professor Damon McCoy’s research team theatrical performance; harnessing AR/ to turn their advanced data scraping and VR to radically change the way people AI skills to the problem on a worldwide The RLab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard engage with information, entertainment, scale. Already, their Online Transparency the environment, and one another; Project has revealed insight into the creating citizen science tools to empower opaque (and sometimes nefarious) world The RLab New York City residents; and helping of political advertising in both the United The RLab is the nation’s first city-funded NASA develop next-generation user States and Canada, with more countries center for research, entrepreneurship, and interfaces for space exploration. We are to come. education in virtual and augmented reality constantly modifying industry-standard Their regularly updated analyses of and related technologies. Administered technologies and creating new ones, Facebook, Google, and Twitter online by NYU Tandon with a participating and we’re doing it with deep technical advertising is becoming a staple for consortium of New York City universities, expertise, across multiple sectors investigative reporters and the public, the RLab is located in Building 22 of the including media and entertainment, offering insights that are otherwise Brooklyn Navy Yard and cements New health, training and education, tourism, unavailable from the new-media giants. York City’s status as a global leader in VR/ commerce and retail, engineering and AR, which is expected be a $215 billion design, architecture and construction, per year market by 2021. civic technology and smart cities.

The annual IDM showcase shows off NYC Media Lab the work and NYC Media Lab connects media and Lab funds projects and programs that projects of IDM students technology companies like Hearst, foster collaboration across an array of Bloomberg, and NBC with NYU Tandon disciplines and emerging technologies. and other area universities to drive The Combine, the Lab’s venture platform, innovation, entrepreneurship, and talent helps companies connect to startups development. A public-private partnership within the City’s thriving technology launched by the New York City Economic ecosystem. Development Corporation, NYC Media 5G COVET: Sniffing out email scams Virtual reality, real learning With email fraud on the rise, a team of Deep expertise in K-12 STEM education NYU Tandon researchers led by Associate collides with groundbreaking research in Professor of Computer Science and wireless technology at NYU Tandon to Engineering Enrico Bertini is helping law deliver a potential killer app for teaching: enforcement crack down on scammers, 5G COVET. thanks to a new visual analytics tool that dramatically speeds up forensic Using VR to peer inside Employing the popular escape room buildings (and emotions) investigations and highlights critical links game format, students don virtual reality within data. Dubbed Beagle – a play on We spend 90% of our time indoors, so goggles to solve math problems aligned the sharp search skills of canines used to our quality of life depends on the spaces with their middle school curriculum, sniff out evidence – the new tool features in which we live and work. Since 2016, moving through a holographic home an interface that can return queries as Semiha Ergan, an assistant professor of setting as they conquer each problem. well as summarize emails and highlight civil and urban engineering and recipient commonalities between them, even of a prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Public school teachers who helped in fields investigators might otherwise Award, has been sending people into develop 5G COVET report that even overlook — such as the time an email is virtual reality (VR) architectural spaces disengaged students became fascinated sent, the geographical location of victims, with psychometric gear to measure their with solving STEM challenges, and the and keywords and content patterns. physiological, cognitive, and emotional development team, led by Electrical and responses to built spaces. The research Computer Research Assistant Professor Thanasis Korakis, is creating a platform was just tapped as “Editor’s Choice” in OpenSpace lets visitors to a planetarium the American Society of Civil Engineers adaptable to a wide range of age groups or anyone with a laptop visit the planets. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. and STEM subjects.

Ergan’s research quantifies human experience in architectural spaces by Making computer fusing VR gear with noninvasive body interaction effective area sensor networks to tap into skin and meaningful conductance, brain activity, heart rate, Professor of Technology Management and and other metrics while subjects navigate Innovation Oded Nov is discovering new and perform tasks in virtual environments. modes of human-computer interaction. His research previously demonstrated how meaningful packaging and Visualizing the When art and tech intersect presentation of data can lead to wiser known universe Can 21st-century data science and financial planning decisions and better A voyage to space doesn’t always visualization revolutionize the impact of understanding of personal genomic data. require a ride in a rocket. The OpenSpace art created millennia ago? Experts Now, working under a $2 million NSF Project, a NASA-funded open- at NYU Tandon’s Visualization and Data grant, he’s leading a team that shines source collaboration, lets visitors to a Analytics (ViDA) research center and art a light on the opaque artificial intelligence planetarium or anyone with a laptop historians at The Frick Collection, one tools used by medical personnel. visit the planets, travel to the far reaches of New York’s most prestigious cultural The goals: to encourage more effective of the solar system, and venture to the institutions, collaborated to create ARIES, use of healthcare technologies, more ends of the universe. The immersive an intuitive web-based software platform efficient use of human capabilities in visualization platform, whose developers that simplifies the exploration, analysis, restructured healthcare occupations, include Claudio Silva, a professor of and organization of digital collections and a healthier and better-informed computer science and engineering, by allowing experts to easily manipulate population. In an increasingly complex and Jonathas Campi Costa, a research images. While it is designed for art online world, Nov is dedicated to associate at NYU Tandon’s Visualization historians, curators and conservators, making it easier to allocate our time and Data Analytics Center (ViDA), creates it can be used by editors, photographers, and attention in optimal ways. opportunity for shared simultaneous and even, potentially, physicians — experiences among audiences worldwide. anyone whose work involves manipulating and comparing images. engineering.nyu.edu • #NYUTandonMade

UPDATED 10/22/19