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He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, in 2000 and 2006; a “Laurea” in Electrical Engineering (with honors) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Toulon (dual degree program), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department since 2006, when he founded the Dynamical Systems Laboratory.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Porfiri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served in the Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Dynamics systems, Measurements and Control, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics, Flow: Applications of Fluid Mechanics, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Mathematics in Engineering, and Mechatronics. Dr. Porfiri is engaged in conducting and supervising research on complex systems, with applications from mechanics to behavior, public health, and robotics.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He is the author of approximately 400 journal publications, including papers in Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, and Physical Review Letters. He was included in the “Brilliant 10” list of Popular Science in 2010 and his research featured in major media outlets, such as CNN, NPR, Scientific American, and Discovery Channel. Other significant recognitions include National Science Foundation CAREER award; invitations to the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by National Academy of Engineering; invitation to the third and fourth World Laureate Forums; the Outstanding Young Alumnus award by the college of Engineering of Virginia Tech; the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award; the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; the ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award; and the Research Excellence Award from New York University Tandon School of Engineering.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--captioned-video paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="mt-5"></div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><article class="media media--type-video media--view-mode-default"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-video-embed-field field--type-video-embed-field field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="video-embed-field-provider-youtube video-embed-field-responsive-video"><iframe width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dDzVQmZkliI?autoplay=0&start=0&rel=0"></iframe> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="video-caption">Watch Office Hours with Maurizio Porfiri: The data illuminating gun violence</div> <div class="mt-5"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-research-interests field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Research Interests</div> <div class="field__item">Collective Behavior Complex Systems Network Science Theoretical Mechanics Urban Science</div> </div> <div id="accordion"> <div class="field field--name-field-accordion field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <a href="#0" id="heading-3126" class="accordion-header collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-3126" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-3126"> <h3>Education</h3> </a> <div id="collapse-3126" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-3126" data-parent="#accordion"> <div class="accordion-body"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <p><strong>Sapienza University of Rome</strong>, 2001<br /> Laurea (B.Sc./M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>Sapienza University of Rome</strong>, 2005<br /> Doctor of Philosophy, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University</strong>, 2000<br /> Master of Science, Engineering Mechanics</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>University of Toulon</strong>, 2005<br /> Doctor of Philosophy, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,</strong> 2006<br /> Doctor of Philosophy, Engineering Mechanics</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="my-0"> </div> <div class="field__item"> <a href="#0" id="heading-3575" class="accordion-header collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-3575" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-3575"> <h3>Experience</h3> </a> <div id="collapse-3575" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-3575" data-parent="#accordion"> <div class="accordion-body"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <p><strong>NYU Tandon School of Engineering</strong><br /> Institute Professor<br /> From: January 2020 to present</p> <p><strong>NYU Tandon School of Engineering</strong><br /> Professor<br /> From: September 2014 to present</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>NYU Tandon School of Engineering</strong><br /> Associate Professor<br /> From: September 2011 to August 2014</p> <p><strong>NYU Tandon School of Engineering</strong><br /> Assistant Professor<br /> From: July 2006 to September 2011</p> </div> <div> <p><strong>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</strong><br /> Post-Doctoral Associate<br /> From: July 2005 to June 2006</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="my-0"> </div> <div class="field__item"> <a href="#0" id="heading-4281" class="accordion-header collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-4281" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-4281"> <h3>Publications</h3> </a> <div id="collapse-4281" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-4281" data-parent="#accordion"> <div class="accordion-body"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><h3>Journal Articles (selection from the last ten years)</h3> <div> <ul> <li>Porfiri, M., 2020: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.168301">"Validity and limitations of the detection matrix to determine hidden units and network size from perceptible dynamics"</a>, <em>Physical Review Letters</em> 124(16), 168301</li> <li>Porfiri, M., Sattanapalle, R. R., Nakayama, S., Macinko, J., Sipahi, R., 2019: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0636-0">"Media coverage and firearm acquisition in the aftermath of a mass shooting"</a>, <em>Nature Human Behaviour</em> 3(9), 913-921</li> <li>Zhang, P., Rosen, M., Peterson, S. D., Porfiri, M., 2018: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2017.2781244">"An information-theoretic approach to study fluid-structure interactions"</a>,<em>Journal of Fluid Mechanics</em> 848, 968-986</li> <li>Golovneva, O., Jeter, R., Belykh, I., Porfiri, M., 2017: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2016.08.005">"Windows of opportunity for synchronization in stochastically coupled maps"</a>,<em>Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena</em> 340, 1-13</li> <li>Zino, L., Rizzo, A., Porfiri, M., 2016: <a href="http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.228302">"Continuous-time discrete-distribution theory for activity-driven networks"</a>, <em>Physical Review Letters</em> 117(22), 228302</li> <li>Mwaffo, V., Anderson, R. P., Butail, S., Porfiri, M., 2015: <a href="http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/102/20140884.short?rss=1">"A jump persistent turning walker to model zebrafish locomotion"</a>, <em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface</em> 12(102), 20140884</li> <li>Cha, Y., Porfiri, M., 2014: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2014.07.006">"Mechanics and electrochemistry of ionic polymer metal composites"</a>, <em>Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids</em> 71, 156–178</li> <li>Panciroli, R., Porfiri, M., 2013: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-013-1630-3">"Evaluation of the pressure field on a rigid body entering a quiescent fluid through particle image velocimetry"</a>, <em>Experiments in Fluids</em> 54(12), 1630</li> <li>Marras, S., Porfiri, M., 2012: <a href="http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/02/21/rsif.2012.0084.abstract">"Fish and robots swimming together: attraction towards the robot demands biomimetic locomotion"</a>, <em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface</em> 9(73), 1856–1868</li> <li>Abaid, N., Porfiri, M., 2011: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2010.2092270">"Consensus over numerosity-constrained random networks"</a>, <em>IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control </em>56(3), 649-654</li> <li>Aureli, M., Kopman, V., Porfiri, M., 2010: <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5272397">"Free-locomotion of underwater vehicles actuated by ionic polymer metal composites"</a>,<em>IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics</em> 15(4), 603-614</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="my-0"> </div> <div class="field__item"> <a href="#0" id="heading-4066" class="accordion-header collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-4066" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapse-4066"> <h3>Awards</h3> </a> <div id="collapse-4066" class="collapse" aria-labelledby="heading-4066" data-parent="#accordion"> <div class="accordion-body"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><ul> <li>Institute Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 2020</li> <li>ASME Fellow, 2019</li> <li>IEEE Fellow, Control Systems Society, 2019 ("For contributions to biomimetic robotics")</li> <li>ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award, 2015</li> <li>Invitee of Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, 2014</li> <li>Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2014</li> <li>ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Division Young Investigator Award, 2013 </li> <li>ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award, 2013 </li> <li>Outstanding Young Alumnus, College of Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2012</li> <li>Best student paper competition award at the 2012 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (with graduate students Youngsu Cha and Matteo Aureli)</li> <li>Invited speaker for the “lectio magistralis” at “Sapienza Ricerca”, 2011</li> <li>Best paper award at the 2011 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (with graduate student Nicole Abaid)</li> <li>Invitee of Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, 2011</li> <li>Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2011</li> <li>Popular Science "Brilliant Ten", 2010</li> <li>Best robotics paper award at the 2009 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (with graduate students Matteo Aureli and Vladislav Kopman)</li> <li>NSF Career award (Dynamical systems), 2008</li> <li>H2CU medal, 2008</li> </ul> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="my-0"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="container fix-breaker d-print-none"> <div class="row mb-4"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"> <h2 class="h4">Research News</h2> </div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"> <div class="float-right d-none d-md-block"> <a href="/research-briefs" alt="NYU Tandon More Articles"> <strong>View More</strong> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="view view-content-grid view-id-content_grid view-display-id-research_brief_profile js-view-dom-id-efcde6c1b13fc1687bb033ded0f3037139d6c8f6bb6d5af2af7e148ea1df328d"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="content-grid"> <div> <article role="article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-briefs-search"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 "> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-9"> <h3 class="h4 mb-0 mb-sm-1 link"> <a href="/news/nyu-tandon-study-finds-political-views-not-race-shape-reactions-mass-shooting-data"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">NYU Tandon study finds political views, not race, shape reactions to mass shooting data</span> </a> </h3> <div class="hidden"> <div class="field field--name-field-structured-body field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03269">new study</a> from NYU Tandon School of Engineering suggests that when it comes to visualizations of mass shooting data, political ideology plays a more significant role in shaping emotional responses than racial identity. The research challenges assumptions about how people interpret data related to gun violence.</p> <p>The study involved 450 participants who were shown visualizations — in this case, bar charts — of mass shooting victim data highlighting different racial groups. Contrary to the researchers' expectations, participants did not show stronger emotional responses when viewing data about victims of their own race.</p> <p>"We anticipated seeing evidence of racial homophily, the tendency for people to identify more strongly with members of their own group," said <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/poorna-talkad-sukumar">Poorna Talkad Sukumar</a>, a postdoctoral associate in NYU Tandon’s Technology Management and Innovation Department and the lead author on the research which will be <a href="https://nc.ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/paper_v-short-1109.html">presented at VIS2024</a> next month. "But our findings suggest that the gravity of mass shootings as a topic may override such in-group preferences."</p> <p><figure role="group" class="caption caption-img"><img alt=" bar graph displaying Victims of Mass Public Shootings in US (see caption for details)" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="d25e8aad-3ade-4647-a040-8d246be7cac5" src="/sites/default/files/wysiwyg-images/Mass%20shooting%20image%20cropped.png" /><figcaption>This image shows a bar graph representing one of the three conditions used in the researchers' experiment, in this case the counts of victims in mass shootings in the U.S. from 2013 to 2023, highlighting the counts of Hispanic victims. The other two conditions consist of the same bar graph but highlighting the counts of White and Black victims, respectively. <br /><br /> Data in this graph is from a real source. The source defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people, not including the shooter(s), were killed in a public space and not connected to another crime. Hispanic population percentage in the US for each year was obtained from <a href="http://census.gov/">census.gov</a>. </figcaption></figure></p> <p>Instead, the study found that political views were the strongest predictor of how participants reacted emotionally to the visualizations. Those with more liberal political leanings tended to have more negative emotional responses across all conditions. </p> <p><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/oded-nov">Oded Nov</a>, the NYU Tandon Morton L. Topfer Professor of Technology Management and a member of NYU Tandon’s <a href="http://cusp.nyu.edu/">Center for Urban Science and Progress</a> (CUSP), is another author of the paper. He said the findings highlight the complex interplay between personal beliefs and data interpretation. "This research underscores how pre-existing ideological frameworks can shape our emotional reactions to information, even when presented in a seemingly neutral, visual format.”</p> <p><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/maurizio-porfiri">Maurizio Porfiri</a>, Director of CUSP and an Institute Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is also an author of the paper. He suggested that “studies like this are critical to helping us identify best practices to present data on firearm violence and sensitize the general public about firearm-related harms.”</p> <p>The study also revealed that even relatively simple bar charts elicited strong negative emotions from participants, regardless of their race or the racial group highlighted in the data. This finding could have implications for how sensitive topics are visually presented in media and public policy discussions.</p> <p>The researchers note that their study had limitations, including a relatively small sample size, which limits the detection of subtle effects. They call for further research exploring different types of societal issues and visualization designs to better understand how viewer characteristics interact with data presentation.</p> <p>As debates around gun violence and racial disparities continue to occupy national attention, this study offers valuable insights into how Americans process related information. It suggests that bridging ideological divides may be more crucial than addressing racial differences when it comes to fostering a shared understanding of mass shooting data.</p> <p>This study contributes to Porfiri, Nov, and colleagues’ ongoing data-based research related to U.S. gun prevalence and violence, which they are pursuing under a 2020 $2 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953135&HistoricalAwards=false">firearm ecosystem</a>” in the United States. Prior published research under the grant explores:</p> <ul><li><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyc-ranks-safest-among-big-us-cities-gun-violence-new-research-nyu-tandon-school-engineering">the role that population size of cities plays on the incidences of gun homicides, gun ownership and licensed gun sellers</a>; </li> <li><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/fame-seeking-mass-shooters-more-likely-plan-surprise-attacks-and-novelty-their-locations-and">motivations of fame-seeking mass shooters</a>; </li> <li><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/statistical-study-tying-gun-purchases-fear-firearm-regulations-kicks-major-research-project">factors that prompt gun purchases</a>;</li> <li><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/tandon-team-captures-elusive-shadow-state-state-gun-ownership">state-by-state gun ownership trends</a>; and</li> <li><a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/new-statistical-model-accurately-predicts-monthly-us-gun-homicides-overcoming-limitations">forecasting monthly gun homicide rates</a>. </li> </ul><hr /><p>arXiv:2408.03269v1 [cs.HC] 6 Aug 2024</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--default cta_btn_look"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03269"> Read the Full Article </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mt-3 mt-lg-0"> <div class="align-self-center"> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-above">September 17, 2024</span> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <hr class="my-4"> <div> <article role="article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-briefs-search"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3"> <div class="card-image mb-4 mb-lg-0"> <a href="/news/new-research-explores-how-ant-colonies-regulate-group-behaviors" class="card-img-link" tabindex="-1"> <a href="/news/new-research-explores-how-ant-colonies-regulate-group-behaviors" class="card-img-link" tabindex="-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <div class="field__item"> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=4L0hZMEJ 620w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1_5x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=-FquHCpG 930w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_1x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=bB_AdvGj 938w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_2x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=vkpkK8W3 1240w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_1_5x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=hZikbMTY 1407w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_1024_1x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=qphW_fJ7 1500w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_2x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=9LG-rzf5 1876w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_1024_1_5x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=PAAMXcas 2250w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_1024_2x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=79zdsBm7 3000w" sizes="(min-width: 620px) 92vw, (min-width: 1024px) 83vw, 100vw" src="/sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1x/public/2024-07/Harvester%20ants.png?h=0c8e882e&itok=4L0hZMEJ" alt="Two Harvester ants entering a nest." /> </div> </div> </a> </a> </div> <div class="caret arrow-left d-none d-lg-block"></div> <span class="caret arrow-up-event d-block d-lg-none"></span> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6"> <h3 class="h4 mb-0 mb-sm-1 link"> <a href="/news/new-research-explores-how-ant-colonies-regulate-group-behaviors"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">New research explores how ant colonies regulate group behaviors</span> </a> </h3> <div class="hidden"> <div class="field field--name-field-structured-body field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In the world of social creatures, from humans to ants, the spread of behaviors through a group — known as social contagion — is a well-documented phenomenon. This process, driven by social imitation and pressure, causes individuals to adopt behaviors observed in their peers, often resulting in synchronized mass actions; Think of stampedes, or standing ovations. </p> <p>Social contagion is a double-edged sword in highly integrated societies. While it facilitates cohesion and collective efficiency, unchecked contagion can lead to detrimental mass behaviors, such as mass panic. Thus, nature has evolved regulatory mechanisms to keep such behaviors in check. </p> <p>One such mechanism is<em> reverse</em> social contagion. In reverse social contagions, increased interactions between individuals engaged in a behavior lead to a higher likelihood of them <em>stopping</em> that behavior, rather than engaging in it.</p> <p>In a <a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/7/pgae246/7699677?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=pnasnexus&utm_medium=email">new paper published in <em>PNAS Nexus</em></a>, researchers led by <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/maurizio-porfiri">Maurizio Porfiri</a> — NYU Tandon Institute Professor of Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Civil and Urban Engineering, as well as the director of its Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) — describe this unique phenomenon in colonies of harvester ants (<em>Pogonomyrmex californicus</em>) in order to understand the energetic consequences of highly integrated social behavior. </p> <p>“Ants colonies reduce their energy spending per individual as the colony grows, similar to the size-dependent scaling of metabolic costs in birds and mammals discovered by Kleiber almost a century ago,” said Porfiri. “To date, a convincing explanation of how this collective response emerges is lacking.” </p> <p>Utilizing tracked video recordings of several colonies, they discovered that individual ants did not increase their activity levels in proportion to the colony size. This was a curious finding, because larger colonies means more interactions between their members, and more opportunities for reinforcing behaviors. </p> <p>To decode this behavior, the team — who also includes <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pierodelellis">Pietro De Lellis</a> from the University of Naples, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eighdi-Aung">Eighdi Aung</a> and (Tandon alum) <a href="https://math.vt.edu/people/faculty/abaid-nicole.html">Nicole Abaid</a> from Virginia Tech, <a href="https://biology.providence.edu/faculty-members/james-waters/">Jane S. Waters</a> from Providence College, and <a href="https://www.theswarmlab.com/">Santiago Meneses</a> and <a href="https://people.njit.edu/profile/garnier">Simon Garnier</a> from the New Jersey Institute of Technology — applied scaling theories typically used to study human settlements. They derived relationships linking colony size to interaction networks and activity levels, hypothesizing that reverse social contagion was at play. Their hypothesis was supported by respirometry data, which revealed a potential connection between ant activity and metabolism.</p> <p>Imagine you are an ant, and you see one of your fellow workers foraging for food. If you are governed by social contagion, you might also begin foraging so you don't look lazy. But the energy you expend foraging might not be worth it if one ant can efficiently gather the food. In this case, reverse social contagion tells you to kick your feet up and relax while you let your compatriot do the work, because you’ll need your energy later for another task. In this way, restraining social contagion makes the colony more efficient.</p> <p>The study draws a fascinating parallel between insect colonies and human cities. In both systems, social interactions influence energy expenditure, but in opposite directions. Insect colonies exhibit hypometric scaling—activity levels do not increase proportionally with colony size. In contrast, human cities show hypermetric scaling, where energy expenditure grows faster than the population size.</p> <p>“Human behavior is often driven by personal gain” says Simon Garnier, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at NJIT and senior author on the paper. “Ants, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the needs of the colony over their own. This has huge implications for understanding the differences between the organization of human and social insect societies.” </p> <p>Unlike humans, ants manage their energy as a colony rather than individually, somehow displaying a cooperative response. This study shows that ants use reverse social contagion to regulate their overall activity and energy use. Essentially, when many ants are busy with a task, some will stop to prevent the entire colony from overworking. This behavior aligns with scaling laws and metabolic patterns seen in other biological systems.</p> <p>In simpler terms, think of an ant colony as one big organism where every ant's actions are coordinated for the colony's benefit, not just their own. Future research will look into how exactly these ants communicate and manage their energy so efficiently.</p> <p>This research not only sheds light on the regulatory mechanisms in ant colonies but also offers insights into the broader principles of social regulation across species. As we continue to explore these parallels, we may uncover more about the fundamental dynamics that govern both natural and human-made systems.</p> <p>“This is the first step we are taking to understand and model energy regulation in ant colonies,” said Porfiri. “Is energy regulation accompanied by improved performance for the collective? Can we design algorithms for robot teams inspired by ants that can maximize performance and minimize energy costs? Can we learn some lessons for our city transportation networks? These are just some of the questions we would like to address next. ”</p> <p>This work was funded in part <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222418">by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation</a>, which over five years will aim to create a new paradigm for a better understanding of how loosely connected units can nonetheless collectively maintain function and homeostasis.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Porfiri, M., De Lellis, P., Aung, E., Meneses, S., Abaid, N., Waters, J. S., & Garnier, S. (2024). Reverse social contagion as a mechanism for regulating mass behaviors in highly integrated social systems. PNAS Nexus, 3(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae246 </em></p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--default cta_btn_look"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/7/pgae246/7699677?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=pnasnexus&utm_medium=email"> Read the full paper </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mt-3 mt-lg-0"> <div class="align-self-center"> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-above">July 11, 2024</span> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <hr class="my-4"> <div> <article role="article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-briefs-search"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3"> <div class="card-image mb-4 mb-lg-0"> <a href="/news/nyu-tandon-researchers-develop-technology-may-allow-stroke-patients-undergo-rehab-home" class="card-img-link" tabindex="-1"> <a href="/news/nyu-tandon-researchers-develop-technology-may-allow-stroke-patients-undergo-rehab-home" class="card-img-link" tabindex="-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <div class="field__item"> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=-R5fSo0e 620w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1_5x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=rLcGG2UN 930w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_1x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=4AiGfWB1 938w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_2x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=SvKiWWM_ 1240w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_1_5x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=eU16LHMe 1407w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_1024_1x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=1uO8HrVE 1500w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_620_2x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=u-CArXGP 1876w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_1024_1_5x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=6yVY-mmz 2250w, /sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_1024_2x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=kJWYmjrL 3000w" sizes="(min-width: 620px) 92vw, (min-width: 1024px) 83vw, 100vw" src="/sites/default/files/styles/cinema_large_default_1x/public/2024-05/stroke%20robot.png?h=92229be0&itok=-R5fSo0e" alt="Hand manipulating a controller." /> </div> </div> </a> </a> </div> <div class="caret arrow-left d-none d-lg-block"></div> <span class="caret arrow-up-event d-block d-lg-none"></span> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6"> <h3 class="h4 mb-0 mb-sm-1 link"> <a href="/news/nyu-tandon-researchers-develop-technology-may-allow-stroke-patients-undergo-rehab-home"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">NYU Tandon researchers develop technology that may allow stroke patients to undergo rehab at home</span> </a> </h3> <div class="hidden"> <div class="field field--name-field-structured-body field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For survivors of strokes, which afflict nearly 800,000 Americans each year, regaining fine motor skills like writing and using utensils is critical for recovering independence and quality of life. But getting intensive, frequent rehabilitation therapy can be challenging and expensive.</p> <p>Now, researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering are developing a new technology that could allow stroke patients to undergo rehabilitation exercises at home by tracking their wrist movements through a simple setup: a smartphone strapped to the forearm and a low-cost gaming controller called the Novint Falcon.</p> <p>The Novint Falcon, a desktop robot typically used for video games, can guide users through specific arm motions and track the trajectory of its controller. But it cannot directly measure the angle of the user's wrist, which is essential data for therapists providing remote rehabilitation.</p> <p>In a <a href="https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12948/129480F/Automating-the-assessment-of-wrist-motion-in-telerehabilitation-with-haptic/10.1117/12.3010545.full#_=_">paper</a> presented at <a href="https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/smart-structures-nde?webSyncID=1795133b-4827-6e89-3776-99a84a693940&sessionGUID=b5b1da6e-2cd6-ec87-dbe2-0220b6684670#_=_">SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation 2024</a>, the researchers proposed using the Falcon in tandem with a smartphone's built-in motion sensors to precisely monitor wrist angles during rehab exercises.</p> <p>"Patients would strap their phone to their forearm and manipulate this robot," said Maurizio Porfiri, NYU Tandon Institute Professor and director of its Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP), who is the paper’s senior author. "Data from the phone's inertial sensors can then be combined with the robot's measurements through machine learning to infer the patient's wrist angle."</p> <p>The researchers collected data from a healthy subject performing tasks with the Falcon while wearing motion sensors on the forearm and hand to capture the true wrist angle. They then trained an algorithm to predict the wrist angles based on the sensor data and Falcon controller movements.</p> <p>The resulting algorithm could predict wrist angles with over 90% accuracy, a promising initial step toward enabling remote therapy with real-time feedback in the absence of an in-person therapist.</p> <p>"This technology could allow patients to undergo rehabilitation exercises at home while providing detailed data to therapists remotely assessing their progress," Roni Barak Ventura, the paper’s lead author who was an NYU Tandon postdoctoral fellow at the time of the study. "It's a low-cost, user-friendly approach to increasing access to crucial post-stroke care."</p> <p>The researchers plan to further refine the algorithm using data from more subjects. Ultimately, they hope the system could help stroke survivors stick to intensive rehab regimens from the comfort of their homes.</p> <p>"The ability to do rehabilitation exercises at home with automatic tracking could dramatically improve quality of life for stroke patients," said Barak Ventura. "This portable, affordable technology has great potential for making a difficult recovery process much more accessible."</p> <p>This study adds to NYU Tandon’s body of work that aims to improve stroke recovery. In 2022, Researchers from NYU Tandon <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyu-researchers-partner-fda-identify-biomarkers-stroke-rehabilitation">began collaborating with the FDA</a> to design a regulatory science tool based on biomarkers to objectively assess the efficacy of rehabilitation devices for post-stroke motor recovery and guide their optimal usage. A <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyu-researchers-develop-neural-decoding-can-give-back-lost-speech">study</a> from earlier this year unveiled advances in technology that uses implanted brain electrodes to recreate the speaking voice of someone who has lost speech ability, which can be an outcome from stroke.</p> <p>In addition to Porfiri and Barak Ventura, the study’s authors are Angelo Catalano, who earned an MS from NYU Tandon in 2024, and Rayan Succar, an NYU Tandon PhD candidate. The study was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. </p> <hr /> <p><em><a href="https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/profile/Roni.Barak-Ventura-4073553">Roni Barak Ventura</a>, Angelo Catalano, Rayan Succar, and <a href="https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/profile/Maurizio.Porfiri-41901">Maurizio Porfiri</a> "Automating the assessment of wrist motion in telerehabilitation with haptic devices", Proc. SPIE 12948, Soft Mechatronics and Wearable Systems, 129480F (9 May 2024); <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3010545">https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3010545</a></em></p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--default cta_btn_look"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4yjkmbtp"> Read the full paper </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mt-3 mt-lg-0"> <div class="align-self-center"> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-above">May 30, 2024</span> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <hr class="my-4"> <div> <article role="article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-briefs-search"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3"> <div class="card-image mb-4 mb-lg-0"> <a href="/news/deep-sea-sponges-zero-energy-flow-control-could-inspire-new-energy-efficient-designs" 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</div> </div> </a> </a> </div> <div class="caret arrow-left d-none d-lg-block"></div> <span class="caret arrow-up-event d-block d-lg-none"></span> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6"> <h3 class="h4 mb-0 mb-sm-1 link"> <a href="/news/deep-sea-sponges-zero-energy-flow-control-could-inspire-new-energy-efficient-designs"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Deep-sea sponge's “zero-energy” flow control could inspire new energy efficient designs</span> </a> </h3> <div class="hidden"> <div class="field field--name-field-structured-body field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Venus flower basket sponge, with its delicate glass-like lattice outer skeleton, has long intrigued researchers seeking to explain how this fragile-seeming creature’s body can withstand the harsh conditions of the deep sea where it lives.</p> <p>Now, new research reveals yet another engineering feat of this ancient animal’s structure: its ability to filter feed using only the faint ambient currents of the ocean depths, no pumping required. </p> <p>This discovery of natural ‘“zero energy” flow control by an international research team co-led by University of Rome Tor Vergata and NYU Tandon School of Engineering could help engineers design more efficient chemical reactors, air purification systems, heat exchangers, hydraulic systems, and aerodynamic surfaces.</p> <p>In a study published in <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.208402">Physical Review Letters</a>, the team found through extremely high-resolution computer simulations how the skeletal structure of the Venus flower basket sponge (Euplectella aspergillum) diverts very slow deep sea currents to flow upwards into its central body cavity, so it can feed on plankton and other marine detritus it filters out of the water.</p> <p>The sponge pulls this off via its spiral, ridged outer surface that functions like a spiral staircase. This allows it to passively draw water upwards through its porous, lattice-like frame, all without the energy demands of pumping. </p> <p>"Our research settles a debate that has emerged in recent years: the Venus flower basket sponge may be able to draw in nutrients passively, without any active pumping mechanism," said <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/maurizio-porfiri">Maurizio Porfiri</a>, NYU Tandon Institute Professor and director of its Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP), who co-led the study and co-supervised the research. "It's an incredible adaptation allowing this filter feeder to thrive in currents normally unsuitable for suspension feeding."</p> <p>At higher flow speeds, the lattice structure helps reduce drag on the organism. But it is in the near-stillness of the deep ocean floors that this natural ventilation system is most remarkable, and demonstrates just how well the sponge accommodates its harsh environment. The study found that the sponge’s ability to passively draw in food works only at the very slow current speeds – just centimeters per second – of its habitat.</p> <p>"From an engineering perspective, the skeletal system of the sponge shows remarkable adaptations to its environment, not only from the structural point of view, but also for what concerns its fluid dynamic performance," said Giacomo Falcucci of <a href="https://en.uniroma2.it/">Tor Vergata University of Rome</a> and Harvard University, the paper’s first author. Along with Porfiri, Falcucci co-led the study, co-supervised the research and designed the computer simulations. "The sponge has arrived at an elegant solution for maximizing nutrient supply while operating entirely through passive mechanisms."</p> <p>Researchers used the powerful Leonardo supercomputer at CINECA, a supercomputing center in Italy, to create a highly realistic 3D replica of the sponge, containing around 100 billion individual points that recreate the sponge's complex helical ridge structure. This “digital twin” allows experimentation that is impossible on live sponges, which cannot survive outside their deep-sea environment.</p> <p>The team performed highly detailed simulations of water flow around and inside the computer model of the skeleton of the Venus flower basket sponge. With Leonardo's massive computing power, allowing quadrillions of calculations per second, they could simulate a wide range of water flow speeds and conditions. </p> <p>The researchers say the biomimetic engineering insights they uncovered could help guide the design of more efficient reactors by optimizing flow patterns inside while minimizing drag outside. Similar ridged, porous surfaces could enhance air filtration and ventilation systems in skyscrapers and other structures. The asymmetric, helical ridges may even inspire low-drag hulls or fuselages that stay streamlined while promoting interior air flows.</p> <p>The study builds upon the team’s prior <a href="https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/novel-research-revealing-how-unique-sponge-goes-flow-could-improve-man-made-structures">Euplectella aspergillum research</a> published in Nature in 2021, in which it revealed it had created a first-ever simulation of the deep-sea sponge and how it responds to and influences the flow of nearby water. </p> <p>In addition to Porfiri and Falcucci, the current study’s authors are Giorgio Amati of CINECA; Gino Bella of Niccolò Cusano University; Andrea Luigi Facci of University of Tuscia; Vesselin K. Krastev of University of Rome Tor Vergata; Giovanni Polverino of University of Tuscia, Monash University, and University of Western Australia; and Sauro Succi of the Italian Institute of Technology.</p> <p>A grant from the National Science Foundation supported the research. Other funding came from CINECA, Next Generation EU, European Research Council, Monash University and University of Tuscia.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--default cta_btn_look"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.208402"> Read the full paper </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mt-3 mt-lg-0"> <div class="align-self-center"> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-above">May 16, 2024</span> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <hr class="my-4"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2>Research Centers, Labs, and Groups</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-related-content field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <article role="article" class="node mt-5 node--type-research-group 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