CUSP Professor Daniel Neill and colleagues recently published a paper on pre-syndromic disease #survillance. The authors present a new machine learning approach "MUSES" for detecting newly emerging #health #threats, using free-text data from hospital emergency department visits.

Our The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech alums continue to make us proud. Anika Tabassum presented her work AI for Science during #NeurlPS2022 conference. Collaborators included another alum Nikhil Muralidhar. In addition to their Ph.D.s Virginia Tech Computer Science, both also earned the Urban Computing @ VT graduate certificate.

Beat the heat - Barbara Micale's article about our NSF Heat Resilience project, led by Theo Lim (@chaolim85.bsky.social) with Nathan Self, Shengzhe Xu and others - Urban Computing @ VT in action! vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/…

Congrats to new The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech alum Nikhil Muralidhar (Nikhil Muralidhar) who earned a Ph.D. in computer science and the Urban Computing @ VT graduate certificate. He has joined the CS Department Stevens Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. Virginia Tech Computer Science Naren Ramakrishnan Anuj Karpatne

Project "Dashboard for Power Outage Forecasts for an #Emergency Response to #Hurricanes" aims to visualize forecasted power outages by developing a pipeline that utilizes National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration #weatherforecasts to predict outages before a storm impacts.

President Sands (Timothy D Sands) will share more details on what's in store for 2023 and beyond when he gives his seventh State of the University address tomorrow, Jan 18, 3:30 p.m. at Moss Arts Center. Event will also be live streamed. More info here: vt.edu/state-of-unive…

Project "Data-Driven Model for Medium #Voltage #Cable Fault" seeks to carry out a model for the #fault phenomenon, which identifies its dependence on the grid’s constitutive parameters and external causes, exploiting the information collected in the #urban area of #Rome.

Interesting and relevant blog by Rutvik Deshpande for Urban Computing @ VT grad students learning the latest methods in analyzing massive datasets to study key issues concerning urban populations.

Unsurprisingly, public transit was a tension point trib.al/tYMIpGZ

A new study analyzed millions of Google Street View images to explore how the built environment affects physical and mental health trib.al/4rYCY0I

Use this map to learn about trees growing across New York City trib.al/zCg0DMH

A new study analyzed millions of Google Street View images to explore how the built environment affects physical and mental health trib.al/m3MH85b

A new study analyzed millions of Google Street View images to explore how the built environment affects physical and mental health trib.al/tGdRayM

Virginia Tech AI & ML expert Naren Ramakrishnan works to solve municipal problems in the DC area by developing data science methods for school redistricting, disease forecasting, & traffic ridership prediction through an NSF Urban Computing @ VT grant. The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech fal.cn/3xnnS

CityLab Daily: What Covid-19 did and didn't change in cities trib.al/6eIEglI

Several years ago Ph.D. students in the Urban Computing @ VT program began research to help schools with redistricting. It is still going strong!

It is defense season! Congrats to Urban Computing @ VT fellow Whitney Hayes Whitney Hayes on a successful PhD defense! It was a 1st for me as Whitney's is the 1st committee Virginia Tech Department of Sociology Virginia Tech Liberal Arts I co-chaired, w/ Ashley Reichelmann (co-chair) & James Hawdon, David Brunsma (members).

Congrats to AlexandriaVAGov -- home to new Innovation Campus @VTmetroDC -- for achieving Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities certification. Learning to use data to meet/solve city challenges is the primary goal of Urban Computing @ VT graduate certificate program, administered The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech.

Congratulations 🎉👏🎉Dr. Hayes on earning a Ph.D. @VTSoc and the Urban Computing @ VT certificate! The Urban Computing program, offered through The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech is open to grad students in all fields of study.