Congratulations to Assistant Professor Juan Carlos Perdomo, who has been named a 2026 #AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences.
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@nyutandon.bsky.social@nyutandon.bsky.socialAssistant Professor Nana Obayashi and PhD student Daniil Filimonov built WorMa, a worm-like robot that pumps water between its head and tail to crawl, climb steps and swim with the same gait, TechEBlog reported.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialInstitute Professor Elza Erkip (wireless sensing), Professor Andre Taylor (low-carbon desalination) and NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor Nikos Karathanasopoulos (AI cooling systems) won inaugural Sydney x NYU Ignition Grants with University of Sydney partners.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialIndustry Assistant Professor Anton Rozhkov developed a geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) framework that combines traffic forecasting, spatial mapping and a locally hosted large language model.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialProfessor Debra Laefer told Vox that shared underground utility tunnels, like Disney World's "utilidors," cost more up front but would be far cheaper over time for cities that are constantly digging up their streets.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialNYU Tandon in the News: October 8th, 2026
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe sat down with Industry Assistant Professor Mark Lee, who has spent more than a year building a case that could reshape how the FDA thinks about pharmaceutical training.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialProfessor Justin Cappos explained to CBS News why open-weight AI models, which anyone can download and modify, are more vulnerable to manipulation and harder to oversee.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe spoke with Assistant Professor Rosanna Bellini about why conventional cybersecurity models often miss interpersonal abuse.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialMeet Scott Rechler, CEO and Chairman of the real estate company RXR, the brand new chair of the NYU Tandon board.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe have launched the NYC Center for Healthier Plastic Solutions, the first research center in the United States dedicated to understanding the full range of health and environmental threats posed by plastics, and to developing new materials that curtail them.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialAssistant Professor Nana Obayashi and PhD student Daniil Filimonov built an undulatory robot that pumps water between its head and tail to climb slopes, clear steps and swim, all while keeping the same basic gait.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe're excited to welcome faculty fellow Jing Zhang to campus!
At Tandon, Zhang sees opportunities to extend her work through collaborations across the university's robotics community.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe're excited to welcome Industry Assistant Professor Michelle Choi to campus!
@nyutandon.bsky.socialNYU Tandon names second cohort of Game Design Future Lab, set to debut at New York Games Week.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe're excited to welcome Industry Assistant Professor Aarati Akkapeddi to campus!
Akkapeddi joins the department of technology, culture, & society and brings that interdisciplinary approach to the Integrated Design & Media program.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialAssistant Professor Hamed Rahmani is making wireless smarter at every scale
@nyutandon.bsky.socialBrand new NYU Engineering Explorations newsletter featuring the research of Anton Rozhkov, Juanita Hidalgo, C2SMART Center, Semiha E., Dharik Mallapragada and Pavel Kots.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialVisiting Research Professor Ngoc Cindy Pham, also of Brooklyn College, wrote in the Hechinger Report that her workshop series pairing Tandon and CUNY students found engagement, not school, predicted real-world AI skill.
@nyutandon.bsky.socialWe're excited to welcome Professor Onur Mutlu to campus!
Mutlu joins the faculty with appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.