Category: Highlights

The CUNY CREST Institute participated in the Geospatial Technologies for the Earth: Commemoration & Showcase Day hosted by the CUNY Bronx Community College in partnership with Hunter College on August 21, 2025. CREST’s Executive Director, Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi, Deputy Director, Dr. Shakila
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Karin Sjöstrand, Deputy Executive Director of Operations of the United Nations University Hub at CCNY- Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS) attended important meetings at the United Nations Headquarters  in New York from July 8 to 10, 2025. These
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Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi represented the CUNY CREST Institute at The 45th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), flagship conference of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), in Brisbane, Australia, from August 3 to 8, 2025.  The overarching theme of
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The CUNY CREST Institute welcomes Dr. Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The City College of New York (CCNY) and The Graduate Center, CUNY, as a new faculty affiliate. Dr. Bandyopadhyay joined CCNY on August 26, 2025, bringing expertise in
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Said A. Mejia-Manrique, CREST & R-SIRUS Post-Doctoral Fellow, published a research paper in Natural Hazards titled Dynamic landslide susceptibility for extreme rainfall events using an optimized convolutional neural network approach on June 7, 2025.  The project was a collaborative effort that brought
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Ana M. Mejia-Manrique and Eromosele Emmanuel Osuide, CREST doctoral students and R-SIRUS fellows, recently completed a research field trip to Puerto Rico to advance their studies on flood risk and resilience.  Ana’s research, Inland Flooding in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
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Dr. Shakila Merchant delivered a professional development seminar on Nonprofit Capacity Building and Career Readiness with The VirtualIntern powered by Mobilizegreen on July 25, 2025.  The VirtualIntern platform connects college students with nonprofits through paid, project-based virtual internships focused on sustainability and
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On June 18 2025, Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi delivered a talk on Urban Flood Forecasting and Community-Based Risk Mitigation: Integrated Approaches from Mumbai to the Caribbean and New York City at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health’s (UNU-INWEH) Science
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CREST faculty affiliate and Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) and the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, Dr. Naresh Devineni is serving as a 2025-26 University Faculty Leadership Fellow in the
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