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Indoor navigation team. L-R: Zhigang Zhu, Jin Chen, Arber Ruci, Hao Tang.

CCNY team develops pioneering indoor navigation system

In a major stride toward revolutionizing indoor navigation, a City College of New York-led team has developed groundbreaking technology that could chart real-time paths, delivering users—both sighted and low vision—a seamless and accurate indoor navigation experience complete with turn-by-turn guidance. The invention has earned a U.S. patent titled "System and Method for Real-time Indoor Navigation." The innovation is the brainchild of the City College-based CUNY Computational Vision and Convergence Laboratory (CCVCL) headed by Zhigang Zhu, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science in
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Grove School of Engineering facade

Grove School of Engineering joins ‘Doctoral Degrees Without Borders’ program

Doctoral students at nine New York City area graduate engineering programs, including CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, will soon be able to take courses at each other’s institutions without any additional tuition, as part of a new multi-school agreement. The Inter-University Engineering Doctoral Consortium (IUEDC), led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering, encourages PhD students to complement their primary program by taking courses of interest offered at different schools, providing access to specialty instruction and expertise that may not be available at their home universities. Students
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Akira Kawaguchi_Japan_Columbia_6G collaboration

CCNY partners with top Japanese institutions and Columbia in 6G development

91ĸƵ’s Grove School of Engineering is partnering with three leading Japanese institutes and Columbia University on a mission to innovate 5G/6G communications by developing a Floating Cyber Physical System (F-CPS). Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), KDDI Research, Inc., and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) are The City College’s Japanese collaborators in the project funded by a grant of nearly $1million by NICT. “The project aims to process spatial and temporal data for the applications by allowing the flexible transfer of
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Yang Liu, Grove School mechanical engineer

U.S. Dept. of Energy funds $800K groundbreaking CCNY plasma research

Funded by a $799,352 U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Science grant, research is underway at 91ĸƵ to fundamentally advance understanding of the critical processes in plasma-based anti-/de-icing approaches and plasma-assisted additive manufacturing and coating technologies. The three-year project is led by Yang Liu, assistant professor in the Grove School of Engineering and an expert in experimental fluid mechanics. According to Liu, plasma-droplet interactions have been recognized as the fundamental mechanisms of many industrial and natural processes, including
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Akira Kawaguchi, CCNY computer science chair, and Seta Bogosyan

NSF funds new CCNY program offering students AI/CAV research experience overseas

Preparing for a future in which artificial intelligence (AI), networked systems, autonomous vehicles (AVs) and connected AVs (CAVs) are integral to society, 91ĸƵ is launching an international program to train select students in mastering Avs. The three-year project -- in partnership with Turkey’s Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and California-based autonomous bus company ADASTEC Corp – is funded by a $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. “Future societies will depend more and more on AI and networked systems, and, in turn, on AVs and CAVs for many
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Jie  Wei NSF cardiovascular disease diagnosis proposal

$2.8M NSF grant funds CCNY project to develop AI-powered diagnostics for heart disease

A City College of New York-led project utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use, and high-precision system for the early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease is the recipient of a four-year $2.8 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The Ohio State University-based, NSF-funded AI-EDGE Institute is partnering with The City College in the project entitled: “AI/ML-driven edge computing for cardiovascular disease diagnosis/mechanism study.” “Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, so early
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Charles Rangel & Rep. Adriano Espaillat

Charles Rangel, Rep. Adriano Espaillat lead Capalino discussion on challenges facing NYC infrastructure

Retired U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel and U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat – his successor in Congress – lead a roster of distinguished speakers in the Capalino webinar, “The Future of New York: The Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative,” on Sept. 25. Available in the U.S. and Canada, it starts at 10:30 a.m. Click here to register. Other speakers include: Carlo A. Scissura, Esq., President & CEO, New York Building Congress; Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, President, 91ĸƵ; and Susan Hinkson-Carling (Moderator), Managing Director, Capalino. Based at The City
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"Science for Ukraine" participants at CCNY, July-August 2023

Interlude from war-time learning brings gifted Ukrainian HS students to CCNY

Summer school at 91ĸƵ for 36 outstanding students from two of war-torn Ukraine’s top specialized high schools for physics and mathematics began with a 12-hour bus ride from the capital Kyiv to the Polish border on the west. It would take another six hours to get to Warsaw, Poland’s main city, from where the weary travelers caught a 10-hour flight to JFK. Conflict has a way of complicating the simplest of things in life. Until Aug. 12, however, normalcy returns to the lives of these young, gifted minds from the Kyiv’s Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (UPML) and
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Xi Chen, Chemical Engineer and 2023 NSF CAREER Award winner

Grove School trailblazer Xi Chen wins NSF CAREER Award

Xi Chen, the City College of New York chemical engineer whose pioneering research includes water-responsive materials, is the winner of a coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Recipients of this prestigious award are considered the best and brightest talents in the United States. Many of the winners later became world-famous scientists and Nobel laureates. An assistant professor in The City College’s Grove School of Engineering, with affiliation to the Nanoscience Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), Chen is widely regarded as a leader in
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Grove School's Rosario Gennaro, Nelly Fazio and Samah Saeed.

Three Grove School faculty join $12 million Google cybersecurity research project

91ĸƵ is a participant in a $12 million Google initiative to stimulate the cybersecurity ecosystem and establish New York City as the global leader in cybersecurity. CUNY, Columbia University, Cornell, and New York University are the other institutions involved in the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program. Three faculty from The City College’s Grove School of Engineering -- Rosario Gennaro, Nelly Fazio (both computer science) and Samah Saeed (electrical engineering) are among the beneficiaries of the $12 million grant that will go towards cutting-edge research
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