By Stephanie Kanowitz Dec 11, 2020 A new deep-learning system can help cities predict the time between the reporting and resolution of an emergency. Researchers at Binghamton University built DeepER, a model that uses recurrent neural networks, to predict the future resolution times of incidents based on historical data. To do this, the system also looks for interdependencies among emergency event types. The team – comprised of Arti Ramesh and Anand Seetharam, assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, and three students – used eight years of data from New York City’s NYC Open Data portal showing the times incidents were reported and closed.