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Announcing the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G™” List for 2026 On 14th February 2026, Women in 6G™ proudly presents the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G” List for 2026.

Congratulations to Institute Professor Elza Erkip on being named on the 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G list for 2026! Erkip was named alongside New York University Abu Dhabi's Associate Professors Marwa Chafii and Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem.

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Office Hours with Dharik Mallapragada: Decarbonizing the World’s Energy Economies It’s one thing to invent a process or technology that promises lower carbon outputs. It’s quite another to implement it into the incredibly complex, labyrinthian energy markets that encompass…

Assistant Prof Dharik Mallapragada develops mathematical modeling approaches to analyze low-carbon technologies and their energy system integration under different policy and geographical contexts.

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On February 13th, NYU Tandon hosted the NYC Microplastics Symposium, with industry, government, NGOs & academic experts addressing one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time — plastics pollution and its impact on human and environmental health.

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NYU Tandon's Game Design Future Lab Receives Medal.tv Gift for Startup Support | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Looking for News or Events?

A gift from Medal. TV will send the @gdfl.bsky.social's inaugural cohort of startups to the 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming in San Francisco and provide expanded operational support for the newly launched incubator at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

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NYU Tandon in the News: March 2nd, 2026

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NYU Engineers Team Up to Revolutionize Glaucoma Treatment | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Looking for News or Events?

A collaborative research project between NYU Tandon and NYU Abu Dhabi aimed at improving treatment for glaucoma — the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide — has been awarded a 2025-26 Faculty Fellowship from 19 Washington Square North.

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Meta Shares 'Truth' About Troubled AI Chatbot That Overwhelmingly Failed To Protect Minors: 'Did Not Launch This Product' - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) Meta Platforms Inc. said it never launched a chatbot product after internal tests showed it failed to block harmful content involving minors nearly 70% of the time, even as the findings surfaced in a…

Professor Damon McCoy testified in a New Mexico lawsuit that Meta's internal testing showed its AI chatbot failed to block harmful content involving minors nearly 67% of the time, prompting Meta to halt the product's release.

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Meet Christopher Clark, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering’s New Industry Professor and Director of Experiential Learning.

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Meet Pranav Motarwar (M.S. Computer Science, '25) a data engineer at TikTok who made a powerful impact on both industry and academia during his time as a graduate student.

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Huge congratulations to NYU Tandon Manager of Undergraduate Programs Kat Arredondo on being awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Administrator and Staff Award!

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NYU Tandon graduate student Bhavitha Mandava ('25) became the first Indian model to open a Chanel runway show after being discovered on a New York subway platform while pursuing her master's in Integrated Design and Media.

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Congratulations to Professor Shivendra Panwar on being named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society.

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Biphasic Coating Achieves 88% Material Savings For Scalable Quantum Dot Films Researchers have developed a new dip-coating technique that reduces waste by up to 20-fold when making films for infrared photodetectors, paving the way for more sustainable and cost-effective…

NYU Tandon researchers Shlok Joseph Paul, Letian Li, and Zheng Li developed a biphasic dip-coating technique that reduces quantum dot ink consumption by up to 20-fold, achieving 88% material savings for optoelectronic device manufacturing.

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Brand new NYU Tandon Newsletter highlighting the research of Roy Maimon, Stephen Kim and Khalil Ramadi.

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Causal Effects of Media and Twitter Advocacy on Firearm Purchases | SIAM New research explores how media coverage of violent crimes and firearm special interest groups influence citizens’ decisions to purchase a weapon.

Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri and collaborators found that Twitter activity by anti-regulation advocacy groups and media coverage of gun laws directly drive short-term firearm purchases in the United States.

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Researchers Find Brain Mechanism Behind ‘Flashes of Intuition’ NYU Langone Health researchers have determined how the brain computes flashes of insight as it recognizes objects.

NYU Tandon PhD candidate Xujin Chris Liu and Professor Yao Wang are part of an NYU Langone-led research team identifying the brain region where stored images are retrieved to enable instant recognition after seeing something just once.

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Where Physics Meets Soil: The Collaboration Tackling the UXO Depth Prediction Challenge A unique SERDP-funded collaboration between longtime friends and colleagues Dr. Stephan Bless, and Dr. Magued Iskander, marries two distinct scientific approaches to address one of the most…

Research Professor Stephan Bless and Professor Magued Iskander developed the GeoPoncelet model to predict how deep unexploded ordnance penetrates soil, helping cleanup teams improve safety and efficiency at former defense sites.

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Moments of Serendipity: Gathering Promotes Cross-Campus AI Research Collaboration 30 faculty members convened at NYU Abu Dhabi for the second Serendipity Research Confluence.

Assistant Professor Rosanna Bellini joined faculty from NYU's New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai campuses at the second Serendipity Research Confluence to develop cross-campus AI research collaborations.

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NYU Tandon is among the first institutions conducting research with Fauna Robotics' Sprout, a compact humanoid robot designed for safe human interaction. Professor Ludovic Righetti noted it gives students confidence to experiment more boldly in The AI Insider.

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What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements?

Professor Julian Togelius shared concerns about AI systems designed to generate hypotheses and read scientific literature, noting they raise questions about the future role of human researchers in Undark.

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AI Agent Goes Rogue, Spamming OpenClaw User With 500 Messages Chris Boyd, a software engineer, began tinkering with a digital personal assistant called OpenClaw at the end of January, while he was snowed in at his North Carolina home. He used it to create a…

Professor Justin Cappos warned that giving new AI agents system access is like "giving a toddler a butcher knife," as AI companies roll out features faster than security experts can assess risks in Bloomberg.

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NYU Tandon in the News: February 19th, 2026

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ICE's Use of AI Will Lead to Big Mistakes. Maybe That's the Point Cybersecurity experts say that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be indifferent to how their artificial intelligence tools work.

Professor Damon McCoy warned that ICE's reliance on AI-powered surveillance will lead to wrongful arrests as the technology is prone to errors in Rolling Stone.

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Meet Adam Munawar Rahman: Leveraging AI for Humanitarian Use | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Looking for News or Events?

Meet Computer Engineering master's student Adam Munawar Rahman, an IBM software engineer whose project DreamMeridian runs AI-powered spatial queries entirely offline on a simple Raspberry Pi.

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On February 3rd, NYU & CUNY cohosted Building a Fairer Future for NYC — an all-day event packed with panels, keynotes and startup pitches where academia and industry leaders discussed ways to partner with civic leaders to improve our streets & systems.

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NYU Tandon students & staff celebrate 100 nights before commencement — this is the home stretch for the Class of 2026!

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Wildfire Prevention Models Miss Key Factor: How Forests Will Change Over Decades | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Looking for News or Events?

Assistant Professor Augustin Guibaud has led a research team in projecting how forests will evolve through 2060 — revealing that ignoring vegetation dynamics produces fundamentally incomplete fire risk projections.

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New York University has launched the Simons Center for Computational Geophysical Flows.

Climate risk modeling faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering will be joining the center.

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Professor Ted Rappaport Honored by Major Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Societies | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Looking for News or Events?

Congratulations to Ted Rappaport, David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor & Founding Director of NYU WIRELESS, on being elevated to IEEE Life Fellow and elected ACM Fellow for pioneering wireless communications research, including millimeter-wave radio spectrum development.

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Brand new NYU Tandon newsletter featuring the research of Augustin Guibaud, Christopher Clark and Bridger Ruyle.

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