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LSE-NYU Research Projects

As universities renowned for their societal impact, LSE and New York University (NYU) share a commitment to addressing key global challenges. Through our longstanding partnership, the LSE-NYU joint fund empowers academics from both institutions to build collaborative teams and pursue groundbreaking work. The scheme advances world-leading research across diverse areas, including AI, Data Science and Society, Media and Communications, Urban Challenges, and more.

Find out more about the cutting-edge sustainability research and impact projects currently being undertaken by LSE and NYU scholars enabled through the fund.

Current projects:

Data science, AI, and Society

  • An aerial photo of Shenzhen, China at night

    Co-piloting AI innovations: Corporate-University Partnerships in the UK and China

    Professor Bingchun Meng, Media and Communications, LSE
    Dr Jing Wang, School of Arts and Sciences, NYU
    Dr Angela Xiao Wu, Media, Culture and Communication, NYU

  • Multiple cables plugged into a board of plugs

    Statistical Foundations and Methods for Sample-Efficient LLM Reasoning

    Dr Alessandro De Palma, Statistics, LSE
    Dr Borja Garcia de Soto, S.M.A.R.T. Construction Research Group Division of Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi

  • A model of a hand overlaid by abstract data pathways

    Governance of Emerging Digital Risks in Human-Agentic AI Systems

    Professor Bernhard von Stengel, Mathematics, LSE
    Dr Quanyan Zhu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU
    Galit Ashkenazi-Golan, Mathematics, LSE
    Milena Tsvetkova, Methodology, LSE

Media and Communications

  • Aerial view of railway construction

    Soft Power vs. Material Power: Comparing the Effects of Chinese Media Campaigns and Overseas Investment on Local Perceptions

    Dr Sichen Li, International Relations, LSE
    Dr Hao Zhang, Politics, NYU
    Dr Djellell Difallah, Computer Science, NYU Abu Dhabi

  • Crowd in the stands at a football stadium

    Social Identity Inferences from Source Agreement: A Bayesian Approach to In-Group/Out-Group Belief Revision

    Dr Jens Madsen, Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
    Professor Jay Van Bavel, Psychology, NYU
    Sonja Belkin, PhD candidate, Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE

Urban challenges

  • Graphic showing global migration

    Sheltered Entrepreneurship: Rethinking Migrant Shelters as Hubs of Innovative Entrepreneurial Strategy

    Dr Sandra Núñez, Management, LSE
    Dr Andrew Foley, Stern School of Business, NYU

  • A road lined with trees with a cyclist in a cycle lane

    Urban Canaries: Personal Sensing for Cooler and More Breathable Cities

    Dr Thomas Smith, Geography and Environment, LSE
    Dr Anamika Shreevastava, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU

Social movements and collective action

  • A crowd of people at a protest with raised fists, photographed from behind

    No Blueprint for Change: Historical Narratives of Resistance and Collective Efficacy in the UK and US

    Dr Sandra Obradović, Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
    Dr Rezarta Bilali, Applied Psychology, NYU

Projects from the 2024/25 funding round:

Data science, AI, and Society

  • Blurred figure standing before a circular pattern of glowing binary code numbers

    Rewiring Search: How AI Tools Reshape Consumer Information Processing

    Professor Amitav Chakravarti, Management, LSE
    Professor Geeta Menon, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU

  • Department of Statistics red and green data flow graphic

    Multi-task Representation Learning for Matrix Completion with Applications to Social and Behavior Data

    Dr Yunxiao Chen, Statistics, LSE
    Professor Yang Feng, School of Global Public Health, NYU

  • Top-down view of a crowded urban crosswalk with many people walking across multiple zebra crossings

    AI Rationales: How Technologists, Policy Makers and Lawyers Imagine Artificial Intelligence for Migration in London and New York City

    Professor Myria Georgiou, Media and Communications, LSE
    Dr Philipp Seuferling, Media and Communications, LSE
    Professor Radha Hegde, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NYU
    Dr Margaret Jack, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU

  • Abstract colors representing data

    LLM-Powered Time-Series Forecasting for Adaptive Inventory Management

    Professor Qiwei Yao, Department of Statistics, LSE
    Dr Yaqi Duan, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU

  • Illustration of a vote box with heads either side

    Beyond Engagement: How Attention-Based Algorithms Influence Political Opinion

    Dr Ben Tappin, Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
    Dr Christopher Barrie, Arts & Science, NYU

Political Science

  • Professionals attending a meeting, listening to a speaker while using laptops

    The Remaking of the Multilateral Order: Women Diplomats at the UN

    Professor Karen E. Smith, International Relations, LSE
    Dr Henriette Mueller, NYU Abu Dhabi

Sustainable Growth

  • Green tiered agriculture fields and irrigation channels cutting through a valley in Morocco.

    Mapping Site-level Climate Hazards to Industrial Animal Agriculture

    Professor Jonathan Birch, Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
    Dr Sonali McDermid, Arts & Science, NYU

  • Climate activists hold signs during a street protest calling for urgent environmental action.

    The Marketized Self as a Barrier to Ethical Citizenship for Sustainable Growth

    Dr Frédéric Basso, Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
    Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, NYU Abu Dhabi