CUNY CREST HIRES Director, Dr. Shakila Merchant and CREST Research Scientist, Dr. Vartika Saman visited the Lamont- Dohert Earth Observatory at the Columbia Climate School in New York on February 19, 2025. During the visit, the CREST team met with Steven L.
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Mr. Ali Haider, a CREST PhD student in Civil Engineering at CCNY, is building AI-based machine learning models to anticipate and forecast urban flooding situations in Mumbai, India. From mid-December 2024 to mid-January 2025, Ali traveled to India to collect important meteorological
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In January, CREST Executive Director, Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi visited Argentina with the goal of fostering partnerships and advancing scientific collaboration between the USA and South America. The trip focused on connecting with key academic institutions and government agencies to explore potential areas
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CUNY CREST Doctoral student in Civil Engineering at the City College of New York, Mr. Said A Mejia Manrique successfully defended his dissertation on December 6, 2024. Mr. Manrique conducted research on Deep Learning Architectures for Improving Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)
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CREST participated in the 105th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting from January 12 to 16, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. CREST Executive Director, Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi; CUNY CREST HIRES Director, Dr. Shakila Merchant, CREST External Advisory Board Member, Everette Joseph; Director
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Dr. Linda Y. Tseng. joined CCNY as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York and joined the CREST institute as its faculty member in Fall 2024 She teaches CE 31500 Computer Methods in Civil
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CREST Faculty affiliate and Professor of Civil Engineering at CCNY, Dr. Naresh Devineni welcomed his new Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Dr. JaeUng Yu on January 2, 2025. Dr. Yu’s research focuses on Statistical Analysis between rainfall and Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO). He aims
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CREST participated in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual meeting from December 9 to 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. CREST Executive Director, Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi, CREST Faculty affiliate and Professor of Civil Engineering at CCNY, Dr. Naresh Devineni, and CREST doctoral students,
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CREST hosted the first United Nations University (UNU) Hub —Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS) retreat at the City College of New York on February 13, 2025. The goal of the retreat was to deliberate, brainstorm and develop the
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CREST, under the leadership of CUNY CREST High School Initiative in Remote Sensing of the Earth Systems Engineering and Sciences (HIRES) Director, Dr. Shakila Merchant successfully completed the 2024 Bridge to College (B2C) on January 10, 2024. The B2C initiative began in
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