NYU Tandon School of Engineering

06/24/2026

“Together, we're not just imagining a better New York—we're building it.” — Juan J. de Pablo, Executive Dean of NYU Tandon and New York University’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology

Just over a month into Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s term, NYU and The City University of New York joined forces to host Building a Fairer Future for NYC — an all-day event where academia and industry leaders discussed ways to partner with civic leaders to improve our city through transportation tech, responsible AI, and data science.

The day kicked off with an address from Deputy Mayor Helen Arteaga PhD, who encouraged researchers and entrepreneurs to view government as a partner in developing solutions for New Yorkers. Juan de Pablo, Executive Dean of NYU Tandon and NYU’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology, then highlighted NYU’s commitment to addressing real-world challenges through partnerships with city agencies.

Click the link to learn more about academia & industry’s vision for a smarter city.

https://engineering.nyu.edu/fairer-future

06/23/2026

Research from NYU Tandon Ph.D. student Felicia Fang-Yi Tan and Technology Management and Innovation Professor Oded Nov shows that brief delays in chatbot responses can boost perceived thoughtfulness and usefulness, revealing that timing is not just a technical detail but a powerful psychological cue in human-AI interaction.

“We tend to attribute human-like qualities to LLMs,” Tan said to Washington Square News. “We attribute that to the AI deliberating, the AI thinking, the AI going deeper into what I asked.”The findings contrast with long-standing assumptions in human-computer interaction that faster systems are always better. Wen Yin, doctoral student at Tandon and co-author of the study, who worked on the technical design and data analysis, said that this perception may stem from everyday interactions.


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06/22/2026

On June 18th, Semiha Ergan, Associate Department Chair of Department of Civil, Urban, & Environmental Engineering at NYU Tandon, and Joseph Chow, Institute Associate Professor & Deputy Director of C2SMART Center, took part in the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Energy Summit & Expo at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Ergan moderated the panel "Powering Resilient Cities in the Age of AI: Grid Readiness & Data Center Coordination" with Sean Casey CEM, ENV SP, LEED AP of AECOM, Bill Grinstead of Orenda, Inc and Christine Weydig of Schneider Electric.

Chow took part in the panel "NYC Lens: Future of EV Charging Infastructure — Deployment, Equity, and Grid Coordination" alongside Tiya Gordon of it's electricm David Hammer of Popwheels and Shelby Thompson of Voltpost. This panel was moderated by H.G. Chissell of Advanced Energy Group.

Shoutout to Adam Cohen of NineDot Energy, who took part in the panel "Generation & Distribution: Scaling Clean Energy Technologies to Build a Resilient Grid." NineDot Energy is based out of the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon — a hub for best-in-class climatetech startups with a focus on clean energy and sustainable urban infrastructure solutions.

06/22/2026

On April 25, the NYU Tandon Department of Biomedical Engineering convened a symposium that put a spotlight on an emerging truth in modern medicine: many of the most consequential discoveries now begin not at a lab bench or an operating table, but in the terabytes of sequencing data generated every day by hospitals and research centers around the world.

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06/21/2026

Last month, Management of Technology students shared their capstone projects for their peers and a handful of faculty judges in Pfizer auditorium.

06/20/2026

Last month, first year students presented their projects, posters and prototypes at the EG-1004 poster session in 6 Metrotech.

And the winners of this year's Gunter Georgi Award were Sherry Xie, David Jeong, Suraj Bantwal Shenjoy and Hallie Xia. These students were supported by their lab mentors this semester, undergraduate students Aderline Diaz Fernandez and Maria Sanmartin Puig.

06/19/2026

Meet alum Regvina Oliveira, who alongside her husband Daniel Schwartz, a New York-based anesthesiologist and critical-care physician, and her sister Limisha, a web designer and digital strategist, has founded House of Artiglo — a textile company that exports handmade Kashmiri shawls, wraps, and accessories to customers in the United States, while putting the artisans' names, faces, and stories at the center of the brand.

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06/19/2026

Congratulations to Civil Engineering Senior Matteo Przyszczykowski on winning the regional ASCE Mead Prize for his paper "Invisible Structures, Visible Consequences: Ethics and Data Centers in Civil Engineering."

This year's prompt asked entrants to wrestle with a deceptively simple question: how should civil engineers honor the historical, cultural, and social needs of the communities they build for?

Przyszczykowski’s answer to this year’s question pulls back the curtain on something many of us interact with regularly yet rarely think: data centers.

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06/18/2026

Can you believe it's been one month since the Class of 2026 officially became alumni?


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06/17/2026

A new research project from the Resilient Urban Networks Lab, led by Takahiro Yabe — an assistant professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Department of Technology Management and Innovation at NYU Tandon School of Engineering — is using anonymized mobility data and advanced AI models to better understand how people choose where to spend time and how those choices shape the local economy.

Developed in collaboration with the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), the work aims to provide a practical tool for retail planning and economic development.

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