Monday
Rumi Chunara – New York University
Mapping Parks and Greenspaces for Healthier Cities
The overarching goal of Rumi Chunara’s research is to develop computational and statistical approaches for acquiring, integrating and using data to improve population-level public health. She focuses on the design and development of data mining and machine learning methods to address challenges related to data and goals of public health, as well as fairness and ethics in the design and use of data and algorithms embedded in social systems.
Tuesday
Pablo Ripollés – New York University
Intentional Music Listening for Stroke Recovery
Pablo Ripollés is an Assistant Professor with a joint position between the Department of Psychology and the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) at New York University. He received a B.M. in Computer Engineering from University of València (2009), an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Navarra (2011), and a PhD in Biomedicine from the University of Barcelona (2016). Dr. Ripollés’ work relies on creating a joint theoretical framework to study language, reward, memory and music with a clear objective: capitalize on music to shape cognition, and capitalize on cognition to shape music.
Wednesday
Erin Morrison – New York University
Linguistics is for the Birds
Dr. Erin Morrison is a Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. She holds a B.A. in Biology from Amherst College and received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. Morrison is an evolutionary biologist who investigates the mechanisms of diversification of color in birds. She predominantly focuses on the evolution of the carotenoid metabolic pathways that produce one of the major classes of pigments in avian coloration. Her work has been published in the journals Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Nature Communications, Evolution, The American Naturalist, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, PLoS One, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Biology Direct, Integrative and Comparative Biology, and Journal of Avian Biology. At New York University, Morrison teaches a wide range of courses that span from introductory biology to the Bridgerton TV show.
Thursday
Jackie Cosse – New York University
Rethinking Social Defeat
Jacqueline (Jackie) Cosse, LMSW, is a PhD candidate and adjunct instructor at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, with nearly a decade of experience as a psychodynamically-trained social worker. Jackie’s research explores how systems of power shape societal responses to harm and survival, with a specific focus on the criminalization of intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors under laws that mandate IPV arrest. Grounded in intersectional critical analysis, Jackie’s work examines how race, gender, and sexuality compound to influence the arrest and criminalization of survivors who are women, queer, and transgender/gender expansive people of color. Jackie’s overarching research aims to challenge dominant narratives that erase the systemic conditions that shape not only survivors’ lives, but the lives of all those rendered invisible by interlocking systems of oppression, centering the voices of those most marginalized in pursuit of a collective reimagining of systems of accountability and care.
Friday
Takahiro Yabe – New York University
Your Behavior Affects Your City
Takahiro Yabe is an Assistant Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Department of Technology Management and Innovation and the Center for Urban Science + Progress. His research focuses on computational social science and network science approaches to model the resilience of cities to disasters, pandemics, and disruptive mobility technology, and has been published in journals including Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Machine Intelligence. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) and the MIT Media Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2021, and his MS and BS from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2015, respectively.
