Roni Barak Ventura
Roni Barak Ventura
Assistant Professor, School of Applied Engr & Tech
251 Fenster Hall (FENS)
Education
Ph.D.; New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; 2021
M.S.; New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; 2017
B.Sc.; University of Rochester; Evolutionary Biology and Ecology; 2014
M.S.; New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; 2017
B.Sc.; University of Rochester; Evolutionary Biology and Ecology; 2014
Research Interests
Causal inference, Complex systems, Firearm violence, Future of work, Human behavior, Human-computer interactions, Interface design, Quantitative policy evaluation, Telerehabilitation, Time series analysis, Virtual and augmented reality.
Journal Article
Inês Figueira, Rayan Succar, Roni Barak Ventura, Maurizio Porfiri. 2025. “Urban scaling with censored data.” PLOS Complex Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. e0000029.
Roni Barak Ventura, James Macinko, Manuel Ruiz-Marín. 2024. “Association of state firearm laws with firearm ownership and mortality.” American Journal of Preventative Medicine Focus, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 100250.
Rayan Succar, Salvador Ramallo, Rishita Das, Roni Barak Ventura, Maurizio Porfiri. 2024. “Understanding the role of media in the formation of public sentiment towards the police.” Communications Psychology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 11.
Rayan Succar, Roni Barak Ventura, Maxim Belykh, Sihan Wei, Maurizio Porfiri. 2023. “Fame through surprise: How fame-seeking mass shooters diversify their attacks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 120, no. 20.
Roni Barak Ventura, Manuel Ruiz Marín, Maurizio Porfiri. 2022. “A spatiotemporal model of firearm ownership in the United States.” Patterns, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 100546.
Roni Barak Ventura, James Macinko, Manuel Ruiz-Marín. 2024. “Association of state firearm laws with firearm ownership and mortality.” American Journal of Preventative Medicine Focus, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 100250.
Rayan Succar, Salvador Ramallo, Rishita Das, Roni Barak Ventura, Maurizio Porfiri. 2024. “Understanding the role of media in the formation of public sentiment towards the police.” Communications Psychology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 11.
Rayan Succar, Roni Barak Ventura, Maxim Belykh, Sihan Wei, Maurizio Porfiri. 2023. “Fame through surprise: How fame-seeking mass shooters diversify their attacks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 120, no. 20.
Roni Barak Ventura, Manuel Ruiz Marín, Maurizio Porfiri. 2022. “A spatiotemporal model of firearm ownership in the United States.” Patterns, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 100546.
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Roni Barak Ventura, Kora Stewart Hughes, Oded Nov, Preeti Raghavan, Manuel Ruiz-Marin, Maurizio Porfiri. 2022. “Data-driven classification of human movements in virtual reality–based serious games: Preclinical rehabilitation study in citizen science.” JMIR Serious Games, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. e27597.
Roni Barak Ventura, Oded Nov, Manuel Ruiz-Marin, Preeti Raghavan, Maurizio Porfiri. 2021. “A low-cost telerehabilitation paradigm for bimanual training.” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 395-406.
Roni Barak Ventura, Shinnosuke Nakayama, Preeti Raghavan, Oded Nov, Maurizio Porfiri. 2019. “The role of social interactions in motor performance: Feasibility study toward enhanced motivation in telerehabilitation.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. e12708.
Roni Barak Ventura, Oded Nov, Manuel Ruiz-Marin, Preeti Raghavan, Maurizio Porfiri. 2021. “A low-cost telerehabilitation paradigm for bimanual training.” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 395-406.
Roni Barak Ventura, Shinnosuke Nakayama, Preeti Raghavan, Oded Nov, Maurizio Porfiri. 2019. “The role of social interactions in motor performance: Feasibility study toward enhanced motivation in telerehabilitation.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. e12708.
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Conference Proceeding
“Automating the assessment of wrist motion in telerehabilitation with haptic devices”
SPIE, May 2024.
“Detecting impaired movements of stroke patients in bimanual training from motion sensor data”
SPIE, May 2024.
“Automated classification of bimanual movements in stroke telerehabilitation: a comparison of dimensionality reduction algorithms”
SPIE, March 2021.
SPIE, May 2024.
“Detecting impaired movements of stroke patients in bimanual training from motion sensor data”
SPIE, May 2024.
“Automated classification of bimanual movements in stroke telerehabilitation: a comparison of dimensionality reduction algorithms”
SPIE, March 2021.