Public Events

CUSP x Transit Techies
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Career Talk: Sharon Nunes in conversation with Jurij Paraszczak
Friday, January 30, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Career Talk: Dan Popadynec in conversation with Semiha Ergan, & Jurij Paraszczak
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Eric Masanet – Analyzing data center water demands: Best practices and critical questions
Friday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

NASA JPL- NYU workshop on Land Cover Change and Urban Heat Extremes
Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

CUSP Urban Observatory Expansion Launch
Friday, February 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Urban Futures Hackathon Co-Hosted with NYIT
Friday, February 20 – 21, 2026

Katia Lamer — Filling Data Deserts to Understand Urban Airflow and Heat Mitigation
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

NYU-2026 PIT-UN Tech for Change Urban Informatics for Safe, Just, and Thriving Communities
Monday, March 5 – 7, 2026

Nancy Rodriguez — A journey through the use of mathematical models to gain insight into sociological phenomena
Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

CUSP Alumni Founders: Meredith McCarron & Punit Vats
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

CUSP x Transit Techies | Chris Whong on NYC Subwaysheds
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Burcak Ozludil — Simulating History: Agent-based Modeling, Machine Learning, and Spaces of Madness
Monday, March 30, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Maria D’Orsogna — A data-driven and mathematical modeling perspective on alcohol and drug-overdose deaths in America
Monday, April 13, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Panel Discussion — The Role of Community Engagement in Achieving Sustainability Goals
Maria d’Orsogna, Yuki Miura, Andrea Silverman, and Bridger Ruyle in conversation with Maurizio Porfiri and Miguel Modestino
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Alper Erturk — Next-generation Smart/Meta-material Concepts for Dynamic Problems in Clean Energy, Defense, and Healthcare
Wednesday, April 15, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Paul Horn — The Evolution of Non-Human Intelligence, The Future of Humanity
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Urban Data Science Showcase
Friday, May 1, 2026, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Andrew Sonta: Data-driven integration of social and environmental perspectives for a sustainable built environment
Monday, June 8, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Andrea Baronchelli — Social Conventions in Human and LLM Populations: Emergence, Robustness, and Bias
Monday, September 15, 2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Radley Horton — Climate Resilience and Complexity in Urban Contexts
Monday, September 15, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Technology-driven City Water Resilience
Monday, September 22, 2025 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Nicole Kennard — Food, Place, and Belonging: From Global Visions to Local Sustainability
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Climate Storytelling: A Community-Engaged Workshop
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

GeoFlood Studio: Interactive 3D Flood Mapping for Decision-Making and Risk Management
Friday, September 26, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Zhong-Ren Peng — AI-Human Co-Creation in Urban Planning: The CORE Framework
Monday, September 29, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Will Payne — Measuring Urban Consumption Footprints in Changing Cities
Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Urban AI Symposium
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 (all day)

From FDNY to Vice President at Morgan Stanley: A Conversation with Nicholas Gaudiosi on Career Resilience
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Zhaonan Wang — Beyond When & Where: Paradigm Shift of Geospatial AI from Predictive, to Generative and Adaptive
Friday, November 7, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Luís Bettencourt — Urban Science Research Seminar
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Danny Yuxing Huang — RouterSense: A Low-Cost, Unobtrusive, Privacy-Respecting Way to Monitor Health from Everyday Internet Use at Scale
Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Vito Telesca — Using Machine Learning to Link Emergency Room Admissions & Environmental Factors
Wed, Mar 12, 2025 — 2:00 PM

Daniel T. O'Brien —The Pointillistic City
Mon, Mar 17, 2025 — 1:00 PM

Cynthia Zeng — Machine Learning for a Changing Climate: Forecast, Risk, Adapt
Wed, Apr 9, 2025 — 2:00 PM

Greg Morrisett
Mon, Apr 14, 2025 — 1:00 PM

Timon McPhearson — Anthropocene climate risks and resilience in cities
Tues, Apr 22 — 2:00 PM

Sybil Derrible — Solving the Biggest Infrastructure Challenges of This Century
Fri, Apr 25 — 4:40 PM

Ning Lin — Tropical Cyclone Hazards and Risk Analysis
Mon, Apr 28, 2025 — 1:00 PM

Saif Eddin Jabari — Investigating Vulnerabilities in Autonomous Vehicle Perception Algorithms
Mon, May 19, 2025 — 1:00 PM

Applied Urban Science Showcase
Fri, Apr 25 — 4:00 PM

Dr. Klaus-Dieter Weltmann — Plasma Medicine: Bridging Physics and Life Sciences for Medical Innovation
Wed, May 7, 10:00 AM – 11 AM

Christina Geldschläger — Best Practices in Entrepreneurship Education within the German Leibniz Association
Wed, May 7, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Dr. Klaus-Dieter Weltmann — From Idea to Product: Knowledge and Technology Transfer at INP Greifswald as a Path to Technological Sovereignty
Wed, May 7, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Listening for Bias: The Politics and Potential of Speech AI
Thu, Apr 10 — 3:30 PM

Christian Casazza on The Open Data Stack
Fri, Feb 21 — 6 PM

Bianca Ng on The Museum of Transversal Art
Fri, March 28 — 6 PM

Nissim Ram on Creating Heatmaps with Python
Fri, May 9 — 6 PM