CS3 Monthly Research Exchange

At each CS3 Monthly Research Exchange, faculty and student researchers in the field of smart urban planning will take the stage to share their latest findings, breakthroughs, and urban projects.

Joseph Fioresi, Ph.D. Student at the University of Central Florida

• Joe is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida (UCF) studying Computer Vision under Dr. Mubarak Shah. His main focus is on video understanding tasks, with an emphasis on learning useful representations under privacy and fairness constraints. He currently serves as the UCF representative on the CS3 Student Leadership Council.
• Presentation Abstract: Exploring various forms of bias and privacy concerns in video-level computer vision tasks, proposing methods to reduce the problematic biases and private information usage.

Caspar Lant, Ph.D. Student at Columbia University

• Caspar is a second-year PhD student at CS3 under PI Henning Schulzrinne. Before coming to Columbia, Caspar was a Fulbright fellow in Taiwan working on distributed environmental sensor systems. Caspar’s research interests include urban data, machine learning, and networking.
• Presentation Abstract: As the roadway becomes increasingly networked with the emergence of autonomous and electric vehicles, intersection scheduling will move from study-based estimates of traffic conditions to real-time queuing problems with complete information. So far, pedestrians (lacking built-in network hardware of their own) are excluded from this development. Caspar will present a transformer-based approach to predicting pedestrian behavior at intersections using GPS data.

The CS3 Monthly Research Exchanges are internal and open only to CS3 affiliated students, faculty, and staff. If you are interested in learning more about the research happening at CS3, please contact our team at streetscapes@columbia.edu.