Other Activities

Editorials

2026

• Mishina, M., He, M., Garikapati, V., Sobolevsky, S. (2026) Cities Reconceptualized: Unveiling Hidden Uniform Urban Shape through Commute Flow Modeling in Major US Cities. Submitted to Nature Urban Sustainability (2026), DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2411.05455.
  

2025

• Parigi, P., Makovi, K. (2025). Applied Computational Social Sciences. Frontiers in Big Data, 8, (2025) DOI: 10.3389/fdata.2025.1605788.

2024

• Helbing, D., Mahajan, S., Carpentras, D., Menendez, M., Pournaras, E., Thurner, S., Verma, T., Arcaute, E., Batty, M. and Bettencourt, L. M. A. (2024) Editorial: Co-Creating the Future: Participatory Cities and Digital Governance. Philosophical Transactions A, 382 (2285): 20240113. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2024.0113.

Poster Presentations

2025

• Abouzied, A. led a poster presentation on behalf of the CITIES research center at NYUAD’s AY 24–25 Research Institute Day. The event showcased recent developments in urban networks, mobility, and sustainability, and was attended by NYUAD Leadership and Tamkeen, May 7, 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Nguyen, V. did a poster and lightning-talk presentation for a study titled “Assessing the Health Impact of Indoor Air Purification Using Apple Watch Health Data: A Double Blind, Randomized, Crossover Study in the UAE” at the Air Sensors International Conference 2025 (ASIC 2024) conference, held in Bangkok, Thailand, from May 19-22, 2025.
• Nguyen, V., did a poster presentation for a study titled “Assessing the Health Impact of Indoor Air Purification Using Apple Watch Health Data: A Double Blind, Randomized, Crossover Study in the UAE” at the SE4GD Summer School 2025, held at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 23-27, 2025.
• Dovbischuk, T. did a poster presentation for a paper titled “Urban Housing Preferences Versus Choices: The Role of Green Spaces and Connectivity” at the International Population Conference (IPC 2025), held in Brisbane, Australia July 13–18, 2025.
• Dovbischuk, T. did a poster presentation for a paper titled “Urban Housing Preferences Versus Choices: The Role of Green Spaces and Connectivity” at the 9th Annual Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Showcase, held at New York University Abu Dhabi, on May 19, 2025.

2024

• Balsa-Barreiro, J., Hannoun, G. J., Batista, S. and Menendez, M. (2024). Estimating Urban Healthcare Accessibility in Madrid (Spain) via Traffic-Based GIS Scenarios. 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment (APTE), Singapore, Jul 8-10p.
• Lalropuia, K. C. did a poster presentation for a paper titled “Game Theoretic Modeling of Insider Threats in an Organization” at the Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2024) conference, held at New York University Abu Dhabi from March 5–8, 2024.

2023

• Wang, D. (2023) RIS-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems. The 6G Summit Abu Dhabi 2023, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 16-17, 2023.
• D’Agostino, D., Mitchell, M., Vaughan, G., Ripley, D., Burt, J. A. (2023). The Impact of Changing Salinities on Coral Reef Fish Physiology and Behavior. SEB Centenary Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK, 4-7 July, 2023.
• Yao, D. (2023), Game Theoretic Modeling of Malicious Insider Threat to Common Data Environment in the AEC Industry. The 7th Annual Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Showcase, 22 May, 2023.
• Gastoldi, L., D’Agostino, D., Haydon, T. D., Burt, J. A. (2023) Wastewater Impacts in the Arabian Gulf, NYUAD-Water Research Center Workshop, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2023.

Published Abstracts

2025

• Mehouachi, F. B., Jabari, S. E. (2025) Catastrophic Overfitting, Entropy Gap and Participation Ratio: A Noiseless lp  Norm Solution for Fast Adversarial Training. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop. December 2025, San Diego, USA.
• Chauhan, P., Choutri, S. E., Ghattassi, M., Masmoudi, N., Jabari, S. E. (2025). Learning the 1D Hughes Model Using Fourier Neural Operators. UAE Graduate Students Research Conference (UAE GSRC 2025), April 2025, American University of Sharjah, Abstract No. 1571116009.
• Saavedra, M., Muñuzuri, A. P., Menendez, M., Balsa-Barreiro, J. (2025). Analyzing Macroscopic Traffic Rhythms and City Size in Affluent Cities: Insights from a Global Panel Data of 25 Cities. 25th Congress of Statistical Physics (FisEs’25), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2025 (Abstracts Book, p.36).
• Saavedra, M. (CA), Muñuzuri, A. P., Menendez, M., Balsa-Barreiro, J. (2025). Exploring Spatiotemporal Traffic Dynamics in 25 Cities via Transfer Entropy-Driven Causal Networks. 14th International Conference on Nonlinear Mathematics and Physics (NoLineal 2025). Santiago de Compostela, Spain, , June 2025. (Abstracts Book, p.109-110). 

2024

• Bogomolov, Y., Bretsko, D., Sobolevsky, S. (2024). Natural Language Querying for Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics. MadeAI’24, July 2024, Porto, Portugal. 
• Bogomolov, Y., Bretsko, D., Sobolevsky, S. (2024). Natural Language Interface for Urban Network Analytics. 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, December, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Discussion Paper Series

• Li, J., Trannoy, A., Wasmer, E. CEPR DP19954 Land and Property Taxation in a Dynastic Growth Economy — Tax the Chatelains! International Trade and Regional Economics Macroeconomics and Growth Public Economics H21 R14, 23 Feb 2025, https://cepr.org/publications/dp19954.
• Bruneel, C., Chapelle, G., Benoit-Eymeoud, J., Wasmer, E. CEPR DP19956 Housing Prices Propagation: A Theory of Spatial Interactions. International Macroeconomics and Finance International Trade and Regional Economics Asset Pricing R31 G12 D83 C61, 23 Feb 2025, https://cepr.org/publications/dp19956. 
• Le Fur, T., Wasmer, E. CEPR DP19955 Fighting for Resources: A Unified Growth Model of the Great Divergence. Economic History Macroeconomics and Growth Political Economy O11 N10 D74 F54. 23 Feb 2025, https://cepr.org/publications/dp19955.

Public or Invited Gatherings

2025

• García, B. (2025) Presented “LLMs for Enhancing Human-Machine Interaction in Construction Projects” at The First International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Innovations (AIE 2025). February 13, 2025, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2024

• García, B. & Undergraduate Students. (2024) Presented Collaborative Student Research at Mubadala-NYUAD, Project Awards AY 2023-2024. May 9, 2024, NYUAD (C2-East Forum), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• García, B. & Undergraduate Students. (2024) Presented “AI and Robotics for Autonomous Data Acquisition in Construction Projects” at Mubadala Research Summit. October 29, 2024, Mubadala Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• García, B. (2024) Presented “Robotics and Automation in Construction” at ALEC Innovation Day. November 20, 2024, Dubai, UAE.
• García, B. (2024) Presented “Why Cybersecurity is Building Security” at Big5 Global. November 29, 2024, Dubai, UAE.

Panels

2024

• Menendez, M. (2024) Panel Member for Navigating New Center Start-ups and Center Renewals, NYUAD Research Institute Day. May 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 
• Menendez, M. (2024) Panel Member for Reimagining Urban Mobility: Designing Cities for People, Not Cars. Big 5 Global. November 2024.

2023

• Burt, J. A. (2023) Panel Member for From Local to Global Extreme Environments as a Proxy for the Future. Mubadala ACCESS Panel Discussion, COP28, Dubai, UAE. December 4, 2023.
• Menendez, M. (2023) Panel Member for Green Mobility Forum, ITC, Abu Dhabi. November 28, 2023.
• García de Soto, B. (2023) Moderator of the panel for Digital Twins – A Paradigm Shift Setting a Global Technology Example. The 3rd Abu Dhabi Smart City Summit, Conrad Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 6-7 June 2023.
• Menendez, M. (2023) Panel Member for Enhancing Our Future Lives: Capturing a Snapshot of Mobility in Future Smart Cities. The Middle East Rail, Mobility Live ME and Roads & Traffic Expo, Abu Dhabi, UAE. May 15-16, 2023.
• Imbs, J (2023) 77th Economic Policy Panel Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden. April 20-21, 2023.

2022

• Menendez, M. (2022) Panel Member for 2022 Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit – Celebrating the Power of Connection, November 17, 2022.

2021

• Menendez, M. (2021) Panel Member for Future of Cities. The NYU President’s Global Council. October, 2021.