Faculty

Michael Ang, Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: michael.ang@nyu.edu
Education: MPS New York University ITP; BASc Computer Engineering University of Waterloo

Research Interests: Interactive Art; Physical Computing; Installations; Public Performance

Domna Banakou, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Affiliation: Visiting
Email: domna.banakou@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Ionian University; MSc University College London; PhD Universitat de Barcelona

Research Interests: immersive virtual reality; embodiment; body ownership illusions; empathy; prosocial behavior; mental...

Joerg Blumtritt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media, Creative Technologist Affiliation: Visiting
Email: joerg.blumtritt@nyu.edu
Education: Diplom Statistiker (Unversität München)

Research Interests: Future of Media, Slow Media, Future Political Representation

Juo-Hsin Chen, Adjunct Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jhc551@nyu.edu
Education: MPS ITP New York University

Research Interests: Interaction design; VR/AR; Multiplayer; 3D

Sarah Fay Krom, Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sfk3@nyu.edu
Education: BFA Carnegie Mellon University; MFA University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests: interactive storytelling, computational cinema and character performance, procedural animation, visu...

Merritt Moore, Distinguished Artist in Residence, Adjunct Professor of Practice Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: merritt.moore@nyu.edu
Education: BA Harvard College, PhD University of Oxford

Research Interests: Robots, Quantum Physics, Dance

Sara Niroobakhsh, Visiting Assistant Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sn2616@nyu.edu
Education: MFA, Art and Technology Studies, School of Art Institute of Chicago

Research Interests: Bio Art, Interactive Art, Performance Art, AR, VR

Aya Mohamed Salaheldin Riad, Associate Program Head, Interactive Media; Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Affiliation: Visiting
Email: aya.riad@nyu.edu
Education: BSc American University in Cairo (AUC), MArch Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)...

Research Interests: Interactive design and architecture, emotive AI, affective computing, parametric architecture, botto...

Aaron Sherwood, Associate Arts Professor of Interactive Media Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sherwood@nyu.edu
Education: Master's in Interactive Telecommunications, New York University (2014); BFA Jazz and Contemporary Mu...

Research Interests: Applied explorations of consciousness, cosmopoiesis, embodiment, entropy, and semiotics in multi-sen...

Michael Shiloh, Program Head, Interactive Media; Associate Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ms10632@nyu.edu
Education: BS, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: participatory installations, machine art, conceptual furniture

Nimrah Syed, Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Affiliation: Visiting
Email: nimrah.syed@nyu.edu
Education: BDes PIFD; MDes OCAD University

Research Interests: Alternative futures, discursive and speculative design, design research, collective imagination, par...

Marina G Zurkow, Adjunct Instructor Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: mz46@nyu.edu

Jack B. Du, Associate Arts Instructor of Interactive Media Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jackbdu@nyu.edu
Education: BS New York University Shanghai

Research Interests: algorithmic art, robotic art, interactive art