TDA affiliate Anish Arora, professor of computer science and engineering and a specialist in sensor networks, is collaborating with scientists from New York University to examine noise pollution in New York City. Using machine learning, sensor networks designed at Ohio State, and data analytics, the NSF-funded initiative—dubbed the Sounds of New York City—will ultimately help decision-makers address urban noise, which in New York are frequently at levels the EPA considers harmful.

Anish Arora
The research team is lead by Juan Pablo Bello, director of NYU’s Music and Audio Research Lab at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and includes R. Luke DuBois, Oded Nov, and Claudio Silva from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Justin Salamon and Charlie Mydlarz, senior research scientists at NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress.