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Engineering IDBE Seminar Series

The Engineering Division at NYU Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Office of Inclusion and Equity, is devoted to educating future engineers and aims to educate the community on how IDBE and Engineering are tied in our daily life, in terms of education and practices. Therefore, we established the Engineering IDBE Seminar Series at the core of our mission. The virtual monthly seminars will be attended by students, researchers, staff, and faculty from Engineering as well as from the diverse family of NYU Abu Dhabi. Click here for details on the talks scheduled for this year and to learn more about Engineering IDBE.

Engineering Seminar Series

Engineering conducts a well-structured seminar series with speakers and experts from the region and around the globe. The seminars will take place via Zoom on Sundays from 11am-12pm unless otherwise stated.

A theorem is proved, demonstrating that net-benefit maximizing maintenance strategies calculated with or without discounting lead to the same ranking of strategies under certain specific circumstances. The circumstances are referred to as a uniform network. They represent, as a mathematical abstraction, the application of a given maintenance strategy to a large network or, equivalently, calculating the expected value of a given strategy over a potential starting point. The ability to drop discounting from the formulations of these problems provides a significant mathematical simplification and therefore expands the set of maintenance optimization problems that can be solved analytically. Further, since infrastructures tend to last a long time, discounting tends to play a non-negligible role in the selection of the optimal strategy. Therefore, eliminating discounting during the search for the optimal strategy is very useful. An example application of the theorem is provided as a case study using an established pavement design equation.

Speaker:
Craig Richmond, ETH Zurich
The problem of deriving optimal policies for infrastructure management has a long heritage. In this paper, we investigate the problem while invoking the uniform network assumption. We show that the resulting mathematical simplifications permit the derivation of a nearly complete analytic solution to three alternative specifications of deterioration behaviour. If deterioration is specified as increasing in the repaving cycle number, then the optimal repaving intervals form a harmonic series. If deterioration is formulated as increasing in the age of the pavement structure, then the repaving intervals are all of the equal lengths. Both results are limited to the functional specifications used. Of greater generality are two results showing that, at an optimum solution, marginal variable cost at the end of each repaving cycle must equal average total cost over the whole reconstruction cycle and, consequently, marginal variable cost at the close of all cycles must be equal.

Speaker:
Craig Richmond, ETH Zurich

Past Events

Fall 2022

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the medical imaging technique that fills the gap between ultrasound and microscopy. It is already a standard diagnostic tool in ophthalmology and an emerging diagnostic tool for other tissues and pathologies (in oncology, skin diagnostics, mucosa diagnostics etc.). Due to OCT interferometric nature, the OCT signals contain a lot of features related as to optical properties (optical amplitude and phase and polarization) as well as speckle structure (spatial distribution functions, speckle contrast, temporal evolution etc.). OCT technique is rich in novel modalities for structural and functional imaging such as angiography, elastography, optical attenuation coefficient imaging, polarization-sensitive imaging and speckle contrast imaging. In the last decade, the OCT implementation for non-ophthalmological applications is based on utilizing the signal features via machine learning approaches often called «radiomix». Currently, we are in the phase of the rise of deep learning methods in OCT. In this seminar we will discuss 1) how the OCT signal features are related to the tissue microstructure and processes (such as flows, deformations etc.); 2) how new modalities based on these features were developed; 3) how these modalities and features were used for machine learning; 4) in what fields OCT deep learning is currently developing; 5) what tasks and applications of deep learning in OCT are most promising; 6) how it is possible to generalize models and jointly train them for further transfer learning.

Speaker:
Lev A. Matveev, Russian Academy of Sciences

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The growing clinical need for synthetics that specifically enhance the repair of large bone defects and aged bone matched by the escalating demand for grafts, is driven largely by an ageing population whose natural regenerative responses are impaired. This presentation will describe our strategies in 1) developing a platform of patented engineered nanostructured, 3D-printed biomaterials for cell-free personalised treatment to promote bone healing in load-bearing challenging situations. 2) our approach to replace direct stem cell transplantation for bone repair and regeneration. 3) Our anti-senescence biomaterial approach for enhanced regeneration of aged bone. Our technologies open avenues for skeletal tissue regeneration in various clinical applications.

Speaker:
Hala Zreiqat, The University of Sydney, Australia

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Innovative systems such as Automated Taxis (AT) are not currently available in the market and consumers have not experienced them. This represents a major problem when estimating willingness to pay (WTP) for ATs because consumers have no preferences for products that they do not know and have never used. Even though ATs have been tested and deployed in a relatively small scale around the world, as an emerging and highly innovative new mode of transport, are still in the trial stage and related taxi services are not available to most of the public at the current stage. Since consumer preferences are formed by experiencing the product, an important research question is to which extent knowledge and experience (direct and indirect) shape consumers’ preferences and consequently the WTP for the new products. The literature on this topic is very limited and mostly applied to the case of electric vehicles (EV). In this seminar, I will discuss the extent to which WTP for AT is affected by different levels of knowledge and experience. These include the impact of simple information about the AT, information from someone who has directly used AT, the experience of AT operating in a city using a virtual reality environment, the experience of living in a city where ATs are currently operating and finally experience of direct use of an AT in reality. Data collected in major cities in China where ATs are in operation, and some other major cities where ATs are not operating, are used to estimate the impact of having used an AT and the impact of living in a city where ATs are operating and available for the public. Data collected in the UK, using an immersive virtual reality environment and online, are used to estimate the impact of having an immersive virtual experience of AT operating in a city. Levels of knowledge of and information about AT have been collected in all datasets and their impact on WTP for AT and its characteristics were estimated and compared across samples.

Speaker:
Elisabetta Cherchi, Newcastle University, UK

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Generating captions for ultrasound images and videos is an area that is yet to be fully studied and explored. The aim of our work is to learn joint image-text representations to describe ultrasound images with rich vocabulary consisting of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Preparing medical image captioning benchmarks is challenging for two reasons: (a) describing medical images with specific terminology requires expert knowledge of medical professionals; and (b) the sensitive nature of medical images prevents wide-scale annotation, for instance, using crowd-sourcing services (e.g. Amazon Mechanical Turk) and similar methods. Therefore, automatic image captioning has not been widely studied on ultrasound images before, the challenge being enhanced by the lack of readily available large datasets of ultrasound images with captions. We make the first attempt to perform automatic image captioning on fetal ultrasound images (video frames), using sonographer spoken words to describe their scanning experience.

Speaker:
Mohammad Alsharid, Khalifa University

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The development of machine learning algorithms geared towards drug discovery and chemoinformatics has seen unprecedented progress in recent years. Much of this revolution has derived from progress in deep learning and generative modelling. It is worth noting, however, that the ‘Ideas to Patient’ journey in a pharmaceutical setting is much more expansive and data-rich even beyond the discovery phases. There is a possibility of deriving significant value using AI algorithms in the phases of drug safety and efficacy evaluations, patient analytics and post-market surveillance as these stages involve the analysis of large amounts of multimodal information. In this talk, we shall discuss the potential for using machine learning approaches in these parts of the drug development pipeline.

Speaker:
Arijit Patra, University College Birmingham, UK

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The development of micro-electronic devices that bridge the gap between the rigidity of traditional electronics with the soft mechanics of biological systems is highly desirable. Having already demonstrated commercial success in areas such as light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics, electrically conducting polymers are now entering the biomedical arena. With the ultimate goal of fully integrated wearable sensors combined with IoT and autonomous at home diagnostic tests, organic bioelectronic technologies have been heavily explored over the past decade resulting in novel device configurations. Multiplexing capability, ability to adapt to complex performance requirements in biological fluids, sensitivity, stability, literal flexibility and compatibility with large-area processes are only some of the merits of conducting polymers. This talk will summarize our recent efforts on developing such smart platforms for health monitoring as well as for drug discovery.

Speaker:
Anna Maria Pappa, Khalifa University, UAE

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AY 21-22

September 26, 2021

Advanced multifunctional fibers - from wearable sensors to organ weaving

Speaker:
Mohsen Akbari, University of Victoria

October 3, 2021

What do cyber-physical systems security and resilience have in common?

Speaker:
Charalambos Konstantinou, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

October 10, 2021

How can we make tumour predictions when we do not understand everything?

Speaker:
Haralampos Hatzikirou, Khalifa University, UAE

Spring 2021

February 7, 2021	Dr. Mireille Elhajj \| Dependency of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Astra-Terra Ltd., UK
March 8, 2021	H. Vincent Poor \| Towards 6G Wireless Communication Networks: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and New Paradigm Shifts (IEEE Distinguished Seminar Series) Princeton University, USA 8-9PM
March 14, 2021	Khulood Alawadi \| Design Practice for Wicked Problems NYU Abu Dhabi

Fall 2020

October 18, 2020	Asimina Kazakidi \| The contribution of computational biofluid mechanics in cardiovascular problems University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 3:00 PM (GMT+4)
October 11, 2020	Mohammad Qasaimeh \| Lab-on-a-Tip Microfluidic Probes for Single Cell Analysis, Separations, and Manipulations NYU Abu Dhabi 11:00 AM (GMT+4)
October 4, 2020	Dr. Saad Jasim \| Impacts of Climate Change on Water Systems SJ Environmental Consultants (Windsor) Inc., Canada 10:00 (GMT+4)
September 27, 2020	Jeremy Teo \| (Immuno) Mechanobiology of Immune Cells NYU Abu Dhabi 11:00 AM (GMT+4)
September 13, 2020	K.R. Sreenivasan \| Massive Simulations of 3D Navier-Stokes Turbulence New York University 7:30 PM (GMT+4)

Spring 2020

3rd NYU Biomedical and Biosystems Conference

January 12-14, 2020

March 1, 2020	Tilo Pompe \| Mimicking physiological and pathological situations in 3D biopolymer-based matrices in vitro Leipzig University
February 24, 2020	Marten van Dijk \| Buffer Zones for Defending against Adversarial Examples in Image Classification University of Connecticut
February 23, 2020	Antonio Adán Oliver \| Automatic extraction of semantic models of buildings with robots 3D Visual Computing & Robotics Lab, Castilla La Mancha University
February 9, 2020	Ahmed Elwakil \| Modeling Biological Tissues Using Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy University of Sharjah
February 2, 2020	Carlos Guedes \| Engineering music and musifying engineering: 20 years of personal research at the intersection of music, engineering and computer science New York University Abu Dhabi

December 10, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Nigel Wilson Title: Using Automated Data Sources to improve the performance of Public Transport Systems: a framework and applications
December 8, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Mihai Sanduleanu Title: CMOS Integrated Transceivers for mm-Waves and Broadband Communications
November 27, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| S. Feyza Cinicioglu Title: Geotechnical Failures and Likelihood of Prevention
November 24, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Oliver Otto Title: Label-free cytometry in virtual fluidic channels: high-throughput single-cell rheology and tissue mechanics
November 21, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Vijaykrishnan Narayanan Title: Is it Logic or Memory? - Blurring the Gap
November 17, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Nektarios Tsoutsos Title: Building Zero Knowledge Proofs for any Application
November 13, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Guido Gerig Title: Computer vision/medical image analysis, clinical studies
November 3, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Fan Zhu Title: Research and Development of Computer Vision in UAE
October 27, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Pinar Menguc Energy Efficiency as a Transdisciplinary Concept: Research and Applications
October 17, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Timothy Wangler Digital Concrete: Material and Processing Challenges
October 14, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Magdi Mohareb Modern finite element tools for lateral-torsional buckling analysis
October 13, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Ali Asghar Bhagat Medical Device Translation and Commercialization
October 6, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Dr. Hemant Unadkat Materiomics for Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration
September 23, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Dr. Ali K. Okyay In-Situ Monitoring of Plasma-ALD Processes for III-nitrides and Emerging Semiconductor Materials
September 22, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Dr. Niti Dhutia A Love-Hate Relationship: Machine Learning and the Cloud
September 15, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Ibrahim (Abe) M. Elfadel Title: A Love-Hate Relationship: Machine Learning and the Cloud
September 8, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Mohamed Omar Abdelgawad Title: Microfluidics Tools for Reproductive Health
September 8, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Mohamed Omar Abdelgawad Title: Microfluidics Tools for Reproductive Health
September 4, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Tuka Hanai Title: Detecting Cognitive Impairment from Spoken Language

Spring 2019

3rd International Symposium on Infrastructure Asset Management

March 31 to April 1, 2019

2019 International Symposium on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

March 10-11, 2019

April 22, 2019	Dyson Workshop \| Hwasoo Yeo Title: Innovation in Engineering & Design
April 21, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Hwasoo Yeo Title: How to Build Smart City from Infrastructure Engineering Perspectives
April 17, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Agostino Gibaldi Title: The visual system and the natural environment: perceptual, behavioral and computational advances
April 16, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Janaka Wansapura Title: Non-invasive assessment of Fibrosis
April 11, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Deji Akinwande Title: Graphene Electronic Tattoo Sensors
April 10, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Mohammed Zourob Title: An Integrated and Ultrasensitive Biosensors and Diagnostic Tools for Biomedical Applications
March 31, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Zhibin Chen Title: A Cost-Competitiveness Analysis of Charging Infrastructure for Electric Bus Operations
March 19, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Dario Martelli Title: Innovative solutions to reduce the risk of falling
March 17, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Khalil Ramadi Title: Microinvasive modulation of neural physiology
March 14, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Halil Sezen Title: Performance Assessment and Sustainability of Structures
March 6, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Muhammad Shafique Title: Towards Extreme Energy-Efficiency with Brain-Inspired Computing: From Approximate Computing to Neural Processing
March 3, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Dimitrios Milioris Title: Positioning based on Probabilistic Methods, Sensing and Learning
February 25, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Shadi Hassan Title: Revolution and advancements of electrically enhanced membrane bioreactor (eMBR) for wastewater treatment and water reuse
February 24, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Arnab Chanda Title: Biomechanical Testing of Soft Tissue Damage Interventions
February 21, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Wenzhi Liao Title: Data mining and fusion for image analysis and interpretation
February 20, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Ismail Ben Mabrouk Title: On the Performance of Radio Communications in Underground Gold Mines
February 19, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Aissa Ikhlef Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Future Wireless Networks: 5G and Beyond
February 18, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Chao Liu Title: Desalinated seawaters in distribution systems: Formation of disinfection by-products and mitigation of toxicity
February 17, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Jian Li Title: Learning to cache: Accuracy or Speed
February 13, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Antonio Franchi Title: Aerial Robotics: Novel Design Control Methods for Enabling Physical InteractiveTasks in Real World
February 12, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Muataz Atieh Title: Nano-Materials for Water Treatment and Desalination
February 11, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Eliseo Ferrante Title: Swarm robotics: Designing scalable self-organized collective robotic platforms that combine the strengths of engineered and biological systems
February 10, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Kemal Celebi Title: 2D Materials for Membrane Separations and Functional Coatings
February 5, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Greg Cashion Title: Top 10 things all engineers need to know about construction law
February 5, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman Title: 3D Printing and Bioprinting for Tissue Engineering Applications

Fall 2018

Precious Plastic WANA Conference 2018

December 16-17, 2018

The 4th NYUAD Transportation Symposium

Nov 18-19, 2018

January 10, 2019	Engineering Seminar Series \| David Lange Title: The Future of 3D Printing of Concrete Infrastructure
November 29, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Muhammad Shafique Title: Enabling Extreme Energy-Efficiency through Brain-Inspired Computing: A Cross-Layer Approach towards Approximate Computing and Energy-Efficient Neural Processing
November 25, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Debjani Paul Title: Microfluidic devices for blood analysis
November 22, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Mahmoud I. Hussein Title: Phononics: An Emerging Field Targeting Structural Dynamics of Materials and Beyond
November 20, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Paulo Montiero Title: Multiscale X-Ray Tomography of Concrete
November 19, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Bhargab Bhattacharya Title: Design of Free-Flowing Lab-on-Chip with 3D Microfluidic Network for Sample Preparation
November 18, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Khalil Ramadi Title: Minimally invasive neural drug delivery: a window to a future of precision medicine
November 13, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Michalis Vlachos Title: Interpretable Machine Learning with Applications in B2B Recommender Systems
November 11, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Ehab El-Sadaany Title: Embedded Distributed Energy Resources; A Problematic Solution
November 4, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Mohamed Al-Fandi Title: Toward Smart Micro/Nano Systems
October 28, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Baker Mohammad Title: Memristor: A new Paradigm in Electronics Computing, Sensing and Memory
October 14, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Cesare Stefanini Title: Healthcare Engineering Innovation within Khalifa University and the UAE ecosystem
October 2, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Sanjeeva Weerawarana Title: Ballerina: A Modern Programming Language Focused on Integration
September 30, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Hicham Chatila Title: Connectivity Analysis for Non-Motorized Transport
September 23, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Athanasios (Thanasis) Triantafyllou Title: Advanced Composite Materials and Structures: Past, Present and Future Challenges
September 16, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| Hamid Abderrahmane Title: Swirling flow in bucket paradigm
September 9, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series \| TieJun Zhang (TJ) Title: Enhancing Light-Heat-Fluid Transport by Tailoring Optical and Wetting Properties of Surfaces presented

Spring 2018

January 14, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Roozbeh Jafari
January 21, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Xiangliang Zhang
January 22, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Ali AlQassim
Jan 22 to Jan 24, 2018	11th International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-11) Convened by Philip K. Panicker, Senior Lecturer Mechanical Engineering, NYUAD
Jan 28 to Jan 29, 2018	Theory and Modern Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics: In Memory of Ali H. Nayfeh Convened by Mohammed Daqaq, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, NYUAD
January 30, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Prof. Mahmoud I. Hussain
February 1, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Imran Akhtar
February 5, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: SeongHwan Cho
February 11, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Hassan Arafat
February 25, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Osama Abdullah
March 4, 2018	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Julian Garnder

Fall 2017

October 23, 2017	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Ozge Akbulut
October 29, 2017	Joint Cyber Security Center and Engineering Division Seminar Series Speaker: Chengmo Yangi
November 5, 2017	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Vassos Soteriou
November 12, 2017	Engineering Industry Advisory Council Meeting Speaker: Industry Advisory Council Members
November 14, 2017	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: David Brownstone
Nov 19 to Nov 20, 2017	3rd NYUAD Transportation Symposium
December 3, 2017	Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Pantelis Georgiou

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Spring 2021

Fall 2020

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3rd NYU Biomedical and Biosystems Conference

Fall 2019

37th IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Design

First CITIES Symposium

The 5th Transportation Symposium

Spring 2019

3rd International Symposium on Infrastructure Asset Management

2019 International Symposium on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2018

Precious Plastic WANA Conference 2018

The 4th NYUAD Transportation Symposium

Spring 2018

Fall 2017