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Faculty

Faculty in the Interactive Media Program at NYU Abu Dhabi come from all over the world with a wide range of teaching and research interests, ranging from software and education to hardware and art practice.

  • 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...

  • 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...