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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. …
December 21, 2018
NYU Collaboration Aims to Help Young Cerebral Palsy Patients Get Needed Hand Orthotics
To help cerebral palsy patients get the needed therapeutic braces and prosthetics that insurance companies can be reluctant to pay for, experts and innovators from New York University are collaborating on a new, low-cost approach to custom hand orthotics. The collaboration is coming together in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s MakerSpace, a cutting-edge laboratory designed […]
December 17, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (AIFI) Founded to Educate Investment Managers on Cutting Edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Theories and Tools
… Taught by a diverse staff of leading academics and practitioners, AIFI’s course will teach the theory and practical implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in investment management. … AIFI faculty will be composed of luminaries including: Igor Halperin, PhD, Research Professor at NYU Tandon.
December 12, 2018
Researchers Find Clue to Epidemics In “Bursty” Social Behavior
BROOKLYN, New York, Weekday, December 12, 2018 – Researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, have developed a mathematical model that could cure the potential to underestimate how quickly diseases spread. The team discovered that current predictive models may miss the influence of a critical aspect of the […]
December 5, 2018
NYU Tandon Financial Engineering Master’s Degree Program Ranked in Top 10 by QuantNet
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 – The New York University Tandon School of Engineering’s Financial Engineering master’s degree program has been named among the top ten in the 2019 QuantNet ranking.
November 19, 2018
At Women Leaders in Cybersecurity conference, security experts say a new approach to privacy legislation is needed
Election tampering, Facebook data harvesting, and other privacy breaches have stoked political and personal safety concerns and undermined faith in the cyber-structures that increasingly control modern life. What can individuals do to protect themselves against these attacks? And what amount of privacy are people willing to forfeit for increased security?
November 5, 2018
Protecting New York’s Utilities Means Protecting New York’s People
ConEd’s Cybersecurity Team Speaks to Students about Career Opportunities
November 1, 2018
To Fight Email Scammers, Take a Different View. Literally.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Agari Develop a Free Visualization Tool to Bring Cyber Criminals to Justice
October 25, 2018
We have “Big Data”, but do we know what to do with it?
“… How to move from pilot projects to large-scale initiatives is one of the challenges addressed by the II World Data Forum of the UN , which … brings together more than 2,000 data specialists from the public sector, private, academic and civil society in Dubai. … The co-founder of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab) of […]