The VIDA Gazette

Vol. 1 — Data Science & VisualizationNYU Tandon School of EngineeringEst. 2024

news—May 27, 2026

VIDA faculty member Robert Krueger receives NSF CAREER award

Prof. Krueger has received the NSF CISE CAREER award for the project CAREER: Human-in-the-Loop Visual Analytics for Biomedical Spatial Profiling.

news—May 18, 2026

VIDA faculty member Rumi Chunara leads NYC E-Bike Health Study

VIDA faculty member Rumi Chunara is leading the NYC E-Bike Health Study, a first-of-its-kind collaboration with NYC Department of Transportation to examine how e-bike use and cycling infrastructure shape the cardiovascular health of New Yorkers.

news—April 24, 2026

VIDA Center's Claudio Silva & Chinmay Hegde to Participate in Federal Effort to Build AI Collaborator for Mathematics

A major DARPA award, led by VIDA Center faculty Claudio Silva and Chinmay Hegde, puts NYU at the forefront of one of the most ambitious bets in science: that AI can help mathematicians crack problems that have persisted for generations.

news—April 23, 2026

VIDA PhD alum Benjamin Feuer receives NYU-wide outstanding PhD dissertation award in Science and Technology

VIDA PhD alum Benjamin Feuer has received the NYU-wide outstanding PhD dissertation award in the category of Science and Technology.

news—April 13, 2026

VIDA PhD students Giancarlo Pereira and Yurong Liu recognized with the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award

VIDA PhD students Giancarlo Pereira and Yurong Liu recognized with the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award.

news—March 15, 2026

How AI Is Tracking Illegal Wildlife Trade Hidden In Online Marketplaces

A data collection and analysis system developed by a multi-institutional team led by Institute Professor and VIDA Center Co-director Juliana Freire has been featured in Forbes

news—February 26, 2026

Tracking Wildlife Trafficking in the Age of Online Marketplaces

A team of researchers led by VIDA Center Co-director Juliana Freire is using data science to track — and combat — the illegal animal trade.

news—December 15, 2025

VIDA Center research featured at Urban AI Symposium at NYU Tandon

Cláudio T. Silva, Institute Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Co-director of the VIDA Center, presented several projects at the event.

news—September 3, 2025

Professor Juliana Freire delivers keynote talk at the 51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

Freire's talk, Bridging Disciplines in Data Management Research to Solve Complex Data Problems, presents a research journey spanning three scientific paradigms and projects that illustrate how domain-driven problems reveal fundamental data management challenges and drive interdisciplinary innovation..

news—August 7, 2025

VIDA Center faculty member Christopher Musco receives rank of Institute Associate Professor

Prof. Musco receives the rank of Institute Associate Professor in recognition of significant accomplishments in research, teaching, and service.

news—July 25, 2025

Research team led by VIDA Center's Prof. Julia Stoyanovich reveals 78,000 Ukrainian students directly impacted by Russian war

Study shows 16% of graduating high school seniors displaced, with rural male students hit hardest by 'intersectional disadvantage.’

news—March 13, 2025

New research uses AI to unravel the complex wiring of the motor system

The nervous system is a marvel of biological engineering, composed of intricate networks that control every aspect of an animal's movement and behavior. A fundamental question in neuroscience is how these vast, complex circuits are assembled during development. A recent study by a group of researchers including Erdem Varol, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and a member of the Visualization, Imaging and Data Analysis Center, has provided new insights into this problem by studying how the neurons responsible for leg movement in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) establish their connections.

news—January 27, 2025

Professor Claudio Silva named a fellow of the ACM, the world's largest computer-science society

Silva’s seminal research has had a broad impact in various application areas and has led to numerous innovative methods and practical systems.

news—January 16, 2025

Professor Julia Stoyanovich receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Associate Professor Julia Stoyanovich, director of NYU's Center for Responsible AI, has received the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the highest U.S. government honor for young STEM researchers, for groundbreaking research at the frontiers of science and technology.

news—August 14, 2024

Stakeholders in the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) convene for high-level discussions at NYU

In late July, NYU Tandon Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and NYU CDS Associate Professor of Data Science Julia Stoyanovich — who directs the NYU Tandon-based Center for Responsible AI and is also a faculty member at both Tandon’s Visualization Imaging and Data Analysis Center (VIDA) — convened “Community-Informed Policies and Best-Practices for the NAIRR,” a multi-day workshop that brought dozens of academic researchers, and representatives from government agencies and from industry, to the university.

news—July 31, 2024

Urban computing to get a boost with new open-source platform funded by the National Science Foundation

A research team led by Institute Professor Claudio Silva and the Visualization Imaging and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is creating an open-source platform that aims to make complex urban data more accessible and usable, potentially leading to smarter, more sustainable cities.

news—July 17, 2024

New tool helps analyze pilot performance and mental workload in augmented reality

HuBar is a novel visual analytics tool designed to summarize and compare task performance sessions in AR — such as AR-guided simulated flights — through the analysis of performer behavior and cognitive workload.

news—September 21, 2023

VIDA Center research on AI Assistants featured in IEEE Spectrum

Prof. Claudio Silva's initiative to build visual analytics system to support the creation of advanced intelligent agents featured in IEEE Spectrum.

news—August 11, 2023

NYU Tandon researchers unveil tool to help developers create augmented reality task assistants

An interactive visual analytics tool, ARGUS is engineered to support the development of intelligent AR assistants that can run on devices like Microsoft HoloLens 2 or MagicLeap. It enables developers to collect and analyze data, model how people perform tasks, and find and fix problems in the AR assistants they are building.

publication—August 15, 2022

Haoyue Ping's paper accepted to SIGMOD

Congratulations to Haoyue Ping on having his first-author paper 'Most Expected Winner: An Interpretation of Winners over Uncertain Voter Preferences' accepted to SIGMOD.

publication—August 10, 2022

Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022

Congratulations to Mengwei Ren and Neel Dey on their paper 'Local Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Longitudinally-consistent Neuroimage Analysis' accepted to NeurIPS 2022.

publication—August 5, 2022

SUBPLEX paper in IEEE CG&A

Congratulations to Jun, Gromit, Brian, Kyle, Kim, Gustavo, Enrico and Claudio on their SUBPLEX paper in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.

publication—July 20, 2022

Calibrate paper accepted to IEEE VIS 2022

Congratulations to Peter, Joao and Claudio on their paper 'Calibrate: Interactive Analysis of Probabilistic Model Output' accepted to IEEE VIS 2022.

publication—July 15, 2022

GALE paper selected for Spotlight Talk at ICML Workshop

Congratulations to Peter, Gromit, Harish, Gustavo, and Brian on their GALE paper selected for a Spotlight Talk at the 2022 ICML Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Machine Learning.

publication—July 10, 2022

Neel Dey paper accepted to MICCAI 2022

Congratulations to Neel for his paper 'ContraReg: Contrastive Learning of Multi-modality Unsupervised Deformable Image Registration' accepted to MICCAI 2022.

milestone—June 15, 2022

Neel Dey successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Neel Dey on successfully defending his PhD thesis on medical image analysis and deep learning.

milestone—May 20, 2022

Peter Xenopoulos successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Peter Xenopoulos on successfully defending his PhD thesis on esports analytics.

award—April 20, 2022

Aécio Santos receives Deborah Rosenthal Award

Congratulations to Aécio Santos on receiving the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award for outstanding performance on the PhD qualifying examination.

award—April 18, 2022

Neel Dey receives Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award

Congratulations to Neel Dey for receiving this year's CSE best research Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award.

award—April 15, 2022

Andrew Bell receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Andrew Bell on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

publication—March 25, 2022

Urban Rhapsody paper accepted to EuroVis 2022

Congratulations to Joao, Fabio, Maryam and Marcos on their Urban Rhapsody paper accepted to EuroVis 2022.

publication—March 20, 2022

IntentVizor paper accepted to CVPR 2022

Congratulations to Guande and Jianzhe on their paper 'IntentVizor: Towards Generic Query Guided Interactive Video Summarization' accepted to CVPR 2022.

publication—February 15, 2022

Paper accepted to WWW 2022

Congratulations to Peter for his paper 'Analyzing the Differences Between Professional and Amateur Esports Through Win Probability' accepted to WWW 2022.

award—January 20, 2022

Juliana Freire elected AAAS Fellow

Congratulations to Juliana Freire on being elected an AAAS Fellow!

milestone—July 20, 2021

Heejong Kim successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Heejong Kim on successfully defending her PhD thesis on longitudinal brain imaging analysis.

publication—July 15, 2021

Peter Xenopoulos paper accepted to KDD 2021

Congratulations to Peter Xenopoulos on his paper 'ggViz: Accelerating Large-Scale Esports Game Analysis' accepted to KDD 2021.

milestone—June 10, 2021

Jorge Piazentin Ono successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Jorge Piazentin Ono on successfully defending his PhD thesis.

milestone—May 15, 2021

Gromit Chan successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Gromit Chan on successfully defending his PhD thesis on visual analytics for machine learning.

milestone—April 20, 2021

Ke Yang successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Ke Yang on successfully defending her PhD thesis on fair ranking.

news—March 22, 2021

Professor Christopher Musco receives NSF award for promising young researchers

The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected an NYU Tandon School of Engineering professor who is spearheading a project to democratize big data modeling with novel algorithms to receive one of its most prestigious awards for promising young academics.

publication—April 15, 2020

Julia Stoyanovich co-authors paper in Nature Machine Intelligence

Julia Stoyanovich co-authored with Jay Van Bavel and Tessa West a comment paper on Nature Machine Intelligence about the imperative of interpretable machines.

publication—March 20, 2020

Raoni Lourenço papers accepted to SIGMOD 2020

Congratulations to Raoni de Paula Lourenço who had both a full paper and a demo paper accepted to SIGMOD 2020 describing his work on debugging computational pipelines.

publication—March 18, 2020

Harish Doraiswamy and Juliana Freire paper accepted to SIGMOD 2020

Congratulations to Harish Doraiswamy and Juliana Freire on their paper 'A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries' accepted to ACM SIGMOD 2020.

publication—February 15, 2020

Paper accepted to VLDB 2020

Congratulations to Masayo Ota and Heiko Mueller on their paper 'Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets' accepted to VLDB 2020.

publication—January 20, 2020

Gromit Chan paper accepted to WWW 2020

Congratulations to Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan on his paper 'Real-Time Clustering for Large Sparse Online Visitor Data' accepted for oral presentation at WWW 2020.

publication—January 15, 2020

Papers accepted to CHI 2020

Congratulations to Francis Williams on 'Unwind: Interactive Fish Straightening' and Fabio Miranda on 'Urban Mosaic: Visual Exploration of Streetscapes Using Large-Scale Image Data' accepted to CHI 2020.

news—August 15, 2019

Professor Freire's research featured on Science Magazine

Professor Freire's research on Artificial Intelligence was featured on Science Magazine.

news—July 20, 2019

NYU Tandon helps American Museum of Natural History relaunch Apollo 11

With NYU Tandon's help, the American Museum of Natural History relaunches Apollo 11 visualization.

FlowSense receives Best Paper Award at VAST 2019

award—July 15, 2019

Paper accepted to WWW 2019

Kien Pham and Aécio Santos paper 'Bootstrapping Domain-Specific Content Discovery on the Web' accepted to WWW 2019.

award—October 15, 2018

Best Demo Award at SIGMOD 2018

Congratulations to the Vizier team for receiving the Best Demo Award at SIGMOD 2018.

award—June 15, 2018