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April 1, 2019
Against the odds: Ursula Burns’ extraordinary rise to the top
Ursula Burns made history as the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO of Xerox in 2009. Her journey from a tough childhood in public housing to the top of this multibillion-dollar organisation is an inspirational one for many….Burns was an excellent student at Cathedral High School, a Catholic […]
MARCH 28, 2019
Working today with a focus on tomorrow
Event showcases how NYU Tandon is solving tomorrow’s problems and closing the STEM gender gap
March 21, 2019
Engineering a career in healthcare
No student at NYU Tandon needs to be convinced about the value of an engineering degree. For anyone wanting a career as a cybersecurity specialist, designer of transportation systems, roboticist, or a plethora of other jobs, engineering school is the natural first step. But what about doctor, dentist, veterinarian, nurse, pharmacist, or physical therapist? Alexandra […]
March 19, 2019
Dean Jelena Kovačević discusses the changing face of engineering
When the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) hosted a March 11 panel on the changing face of engineering, it was readily apparent that the face to which they were referring is, more and more, a female one. The panel, moderated by Google Chief Information Officer Ben Fried, was assembled in recognition of the fact that […]
March 18, 2019
Modern artificial intelligence — causality and fairness in recommendation systems
Video is taking over the internet, a fact that can be corroborated by identifying who’s hogging the web. Netflix alone is responsible for 15 percent of global internet traffic, according to a report published by bandwidth management company Sandvine. A key player in the staggering oligopoly that Netflix and its competitors have created is Tony Jebara, […]
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Visualizing Better Healthcare
Tandon Engineers Are Partnering With Clinicians to Help Make Disease Prediction, Diagnosis, and Treatment More Effective Than Ever
JANUARY 22, 2019
Automatic Machine Learning: Learning How to Learn
Iddo Drori, CDS Adjunct Associate Professor, Kyunghyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Claudio Silvaand Juliana Freire, Professors of Data Science, Computer Science, and Engineering, Remi Rampin, CDS Research Engineer, and Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Raoni de Paula Lourenco, Jorge Piazentin, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, contributed to the recent paper, AlphaD3M: Machine Learning Pipeline Synthesis.
January 8, 2019
Tandon Researcher Co-Authors One of 2018’s Top Papers on 3D Printing
With the worldwide market for 3D-printed parts now a $5 billion business, interest in the field is booming among members of industry, academia, and even the general public. One of the major sectors vying to remain on the cutting edge of additive manufacturing (AM), as 3D printing is also known, is aerospace, and as the editors […]
January 7, 2019
Vice Dean for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Co-authors Seminal Study on the Future of Plasma Science and Technology
Kurt Becker, NYU Tandon’s Vice Dean for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, is among a group of prominent plasma scientists from the U.S., Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, Japan, and Australia who published a seminal report on the Future of Plasma Science and Plasma Technology. The study, published in the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, […]
December 29, 2018
A response from the dean of Tandon to a column about the school’s efforts to promote gender equality and representation in STEM.
… It is long past time for gender barriers to fall in our field. … We should care because research shows that diversity makes us smarter and diverse groups perform better. We should care because we are scientists, and scientists respond to research. …