Oct 5, 2023 | People
Soumitra Bhuyan, Associate Professor in the Health Administration program of the Bloustein School, is interested in understanding the role of emerging technologies like mobile health applications on the management of people with chronic conditions with a goal to...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Advisor – State Projects Marc H. Pfeiffer retired in 2012 from a 37-year career in New Jersey local government administration, having served as a municipal administrator in several municipalities, and 26 years of service in the State’s local government oversight...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Dr Will Payne is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Development program, where he teaches and researches GIScience and Urban Informatics. His doctorate is from University of California at Berkeley. He uses quantitative and qualitative methods to...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Juan Ayala is a highly skilled design professional with national and international experience in managing and designing complex architectural, urban design, planning and community design projects. He has over 25 years of experience in leading a wide range of projects...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Dminitris Metaxas is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Arts and Sciences in Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research interests are in computational biomedicine, computer vision, computer graphics, scientific...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Radha Jagannathan is a Professor in the Urban Planning & Policy Development Program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She received a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Matthew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, at Rutgers University. With more than a decade of experience researching information ecosystems, organizations and communities, he focuses on the use of...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Dr. Woojin Jung is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers School of Social Work. She is also a core faculty member at Rutgers Global Health Institute, as well as a faculty affiliate of the Urban and Civic Informatics Lab at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Clint Andrews is Director of the Rutgers Green Building Center, and a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Bloustein School. He teaches public informatics and environmental planning. Andrews performs research on how people use the built environment and the...
Oct 5, 2023 | People
Faculty Affiliate Wenwen Zhang is an assistant professor of Public Informatics at the Bloustein School. Her research centers on understanding the social and policy impacts of emerging transportation technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, e-scooters, and...
Oct 3, 2023 | News
This map, created by Gavin Rozzi, showcases the diverse population density of New Jersey communities at the Census tract level through the use of 3D visualization techniques and selected annotations of municipalities. It took first place in NJDEP’s 34th Annual GIS...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
The field of healthcare administration is concerned with better patient care and healthcare delivery. The RUCI Lab is interested in using emerging technologies and novel sources of data for analytics to improve upstream determinants of health such as transportation...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
Recent increases in the use of wearable technology has opened up many new avenues of research. There are now vast numbers of wearable devices on the market which are used to record fitness and other leisure activities, monitor personal health and safety, and for...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
A lot has changed in New Jersey since the beginning of COVID. Dr. Vonu Thakuriah and RUCI Lab researchers have used a variety of data sources to track how places and people’s movements are changing over time, as we move beyond the health emergency. Based on cell phone...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
Woojin Jung, Assistant Professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work, and RUCI Lab Faculty Affiliate, is focused on utilizing geospatial data analytics, with a particular emphasis on poverty alleviation analytics in developing countries and communities. This body of...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
RUCI Lab Research Affiliate Dr. Wenwen Zhang is an Associate Professor in Informatics in the Edward J Bloustein School. Her research primarily focuses on the potential impacts of new and emerging transportation technologies, particularly Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)....
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
The principals in the Lab have domain expertise and experience in a number of research areas of relevance to cities, civil society and government. These are transportation, environment, energy, and the medical sciences. The proliferation of new forms of data have...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
Event detection or identifying disruptions in the city’s economic, social or behavioral patterns are of great interest in Urban Informatics. Social media data offers the potential to understand trends and patterns, real-time monitoring of disruptions and events, as...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
As a part of the RUCI Lab’s ongoing research into the social, economic and public health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey through the use of data analytics, we have created an interactive dashboard that focuses on how foot traffic to local businesses has...
Oct 3, 2023 | Projects
The New York Times created a public dataset tracking the spread of COVID-19 by county since the beginning of the year. This national, county-level dataset is a valuable resource for researchers and is a result of the collaborative effort journalists working across the...
