Selected Media Coverage
NEWS • PRESS
2021
Fast Company
These scientists created a model city to figure out the most effective order to give the vaccine
2021
New York Post
Mass COVID-19 vaccinations accomplish more than targeted vaccine roll outs
2021
SciTechDaily
New Method for Measuring Spatial Dependencies Turns Less Data Into More
2019
PsyPost
New research indicates media coverage of gun control causes a spike in gun purchases after mass shootings
2019
Daily News
NYU study finds uptick in gun sales ‘unintended consequence’ of media coverage of gun control after mass shootings
2014
Wall Street Journal
Exploration, Rubik’s Cube and Robot Fish
2011
Wired Italia
Ho creato il pesce pinocchio (Italian)
2014
Nautilus
Animals Bow to Their Mechanical Overlords
2014
Popular Science
When One Fish Gets Drunk, Its Whole School Swims Faster
2012
Wired
Real Fish Welcome Robotic Overlord Into Their School
2012
NBC News
Robot Fish Leads the School
2012
Daily News
Polytech researchers in Brooklyn build robotic super fish to save other fish from danger
2012
Il Corriere della Sera
Il pesce-robot che guida i suoi simili (Italian)
2012
Daily Wired Italy
Il pesce robot con la stoffa da leader (Italian)
2012
New York Times
A Robot Plumbs the Depths of the Gowanus Canal
2012
Wired
Citizen Science – Aquatic Robot Division
2012
NBC News
With a wag of its tail, robo-fish draws attention of real thing
2011
NBC News
Real fish follow a robotic one
2010
Popular Science
Brilliant 10: Maurizio Porfiri, the Water Wizard
2010
La Repubblica
Tutti dietro al leader il carisma spiegato da un pesce-robot (Italian)
YOUTUBE • TV • OTHER VIDEO
Plenary talk
Maurizio Porfiri – Inference of causal relationships from raw time-series in fluid-structure interaction problems
(Università degli Studi della Tuscia)
Prof. Maurizio Porfiri’s lecture: Using mathematics and engineering to understand (a little more) zebrafish behaviour
I IZN Web Conference
(Zebrafish Neuroscience Web Conference)
This robot scares invasive fish into not reproducing
(GoBeats)
The 6th International Conference on Control Dynamic, and Robotics (CDSR’19)
(International-ASET)
Should You Work at Google, Apple or a Startup? CNBC’s Top Tips | Fortt Knox:
Interview with Ph.D. Candidate, Roni Barak Ventura
(CNBC Television)
Liquid Science
Season 1 Episode 8: Ocean blues
(Red Bull)
Meet the New Italian Scientists of New York
(iitaly)
Engineering the Ultimate Robotic Fish
(Motherboard)
Fish’n’robots – not a take-out food | Maurizio Porfiri | TEDxSMU:
Prof. Porfiri’s TED Talk
(TEDx Talks)
Fish and Finance (VIDEO)
(EurekAlert!)
Pied Piper of Fish
Spanish version: Robofish: entre pez robot y flautista de Hamelin
(SciFri)
Water Wizard’s Work on Robotic Fish
(NYU Polytechnic)
Robotic Fish – interview with Alex Morsanutto
(ajmpresents)
Robotic Fish – Pesce Robot (Italian)
(Sturlacchio)
RADIO • PODCASTS
2021
Data Science Conversations
Using Time Series Analysis to Uncover Why Gun Sales Increase After Mass Shootings
2021
Radio Free Brooklyn
Objection to the rule: Interview with Prof. Porfiri on gun violence
2021
Nature Podcast
11:40 How a sea sponge controls ocean currents
2020
BBC Sounds
Chinese mobile data predicts Covid-19 Spread
2019
Spotify
The Future of Medicine: Modeling & Imaging
An NYU Tandon School of Engineering Podcast
2017
BBC Radio 4
The Unbelievable Truth Series 18 Episode 6
2016
CBC Radio
Quirks & Quarks
A robotic replica of a zebrafish moves in a life-like way
2012
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Academic Minute
Robotic Fish
2012
Science Update podcast
ZEBRAFISH ROBOT
2012
NPR
Science Festival podcast