Faculty Advancement and Engagement
As Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Engagement, Azza ensures that faculty have access to all available resources at NYUAD to advance their professional goals and achieve world-class excellence in their work. Her office will support faculty through consultation, programs for faculty development, and building connections in collaboration with the Deans and Vice Provosts; provide resources for training, workshops, and structured programs to achieve excellence among faculty as envisioned by NYUAD’s academic strategy; and lead the development of special recognitions and awards that promote faculty research, teaching, and community engagement.
Azza's office expands faculty mentoring initiatives and provides resources for faculty as they prepare to advance through the process of tenure, promotion and contract renewal. Her work elevates the capacity of NYUAD faculty as academic leaders. In collaboration with experts across the NYU Global Network, her office expand the opportunities in career development for NYUAD faculty.
Azza Abouzeid joined NYUAD in 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Tandon School of Engineering and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. She received her doctoral degree from Yale University in 2013 and spent a year as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She is also one of the co-founders of Hadapt – a big data analytics platform.
Azza is one of the Co-Principal Investigators of the Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES). She leads the Human-Data Interaction Lab, which designs and builds tools that help users make sense of and take decisions with data in uncertain environments. Her innovative research combines techniques from various fields, such as human computer interaction (HCI), database systems, and AI. Her research has gathered numerous awards, including the Very Large Databases Test of Time Award, a 2019 research highlight in Communications of the Association Computing Machinery and a 2017 research highlight by the Special Interest Group on Management of Data. Her work is recognized by best paper and demo awards at key HCI and database system conferences. She received a 2022 Appreciation Award from the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center for her contributions to COVID-19 research through building tools that help decision-makers mitigate epidemics.
As former chair of the Faculty Council Steering Committee, the advisory committee that liaises between the faculty and leadership/senior academic administration, and former co-chair of the Faculty Council, Azza has established a clear track record of commitment to advocating for faculty.