Events

Title: Imaging and Diagnosing Biological and Pathological Processes with Light, Not Labels
Stephen A. Boppart, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: Buildings: From Environmental Assessment of Materials to Regulating Whole Buildings
Arpad Horvath, L. E. Peirano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Title: Dynamic operations of urban multimodal  passenger mobility under uncertainty
Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands

Title: Forward Thinking PFAS Solutions: From Waste Remediation to Safer Alternatives
Mohamed Ateia, Rice University, USA

Title: Optoacoustic imaging, monitoring, and sensing: Pre-clinical and clinical studies
Rinat O. Esenaliev, University of Texas Medical Branch, US

Title: Medical Image Processing and Multimodal AI for Precision Medicine: The Challenge of Trustworthy AI Toward Clinical Translation 
Konstantinos Marias, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Title: Sustainable Geotechnical Practices in The Climate Change Era
Sherif Lotfy Abdelaziz, Virginia Tech, US

Title: Safe tracking controllers for Robot systems
Srikant Sukumar, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Title: Adaptive finite element methods and machine-learning-based surrogates for the phase field fracture model
Ravindra Duddu, Vanderbilt University, USA

Human-Centric AI
Enis Kayis, Ozyegin University

Topic TBC
Hussam Mahmoud, Colorada State University

Topic TBC
Yaser Abu-Lebdeh, NRC-Canada

Topic TBC
Francesco Dal Corso, University of Trento

Breaking Barriers: Advancing Accessibility in Healthcare through AI Technology
Siba Siddique, MedTech Startup

Three Tiny Tales from the World of Construction Materials
Nishant Garg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pontryagin meets Bellman: on combining Pontryagin’s Principle and Dynamic Programming
Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College London

On Proving the Equivalence of the Newton-Euler and Euler-Lagrange Formulations and Modeling and Koopman-Based Control of Multirotor UAVs
Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver

Integrating Lean Ergonomics and Design Thinking for Developing Innovative Products
Amalia Suzianti, University of Indonesia

Applying machine learning software to the generative design and operation of climate-resilient residential infrastructure
James Ehrlich, Stanford Medicine/CCARE

Digital Twin Systems in the Built Environment
Erika Parn, University of Cambridge

Optical Coherence Elastography: imaging tissue stiffness on the micro-scale
Brendan Kennedy, University of Western Australia

Social Robots, Robot Vision, and HDR Vision
Hrisha Barua, TCS Research

Catalyzing Electrochemistry Through Engineering Of Functional Materials
Maryam Sultan, Khalifa University

Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture
Eleni Kelasidi, SINTEF Ocean AS

Assured Autonomy, Safe Learning, and the Robotarium
Magnus Ergestedt, Samueli School of Engineering

Light-matter-interaction within extreme dimensions for optical biosensing
Qiaoqiang Gan, KAUST

Deep Learning-enabled Computational Microscopy and Diffractive Imaging
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA

User-Centric Gender Rewriting AND Embracing Graph Neural Networks for Hardware Security (1)

Exploring Microfluidic and Bioprinting Strategies for Understanding Gum Health and Disease (2)

Speaker:
Bashar Alhafni, Graduate Research Assistant (1)

Lilas Alrahis, Postdoctoral Associate (2)

Electrochemical upgrading of industrial high-pressure CO2

Speaker:
Xu Lu, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

International Womens day

Speaker:
Khulood Alawadi, NYUAD

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo-Subset Simulation (HMC-SS) methods for rare event probability estimation

Speaker:
Marco Broccardo, University of Trento

Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Programs

Speaker:
Dr. Tia McNair, American Association of Colleges & Universities

Self-standing, malleable doughs of advanced ceramics enable low-number production on a benchtop

Speaker:
Özge Akbulut, Sabancı Üniversity

AI in the Womb: Enhancing Fetal Ultrasound Analysis with Deep Learning

Speaker:
Mohammad Alsharid, Khalifa University

Turning Agricultural and Paper Waste into High-Value Materials: A Focus on Nanocellulose

Speaker:
Dr. Hatem Abushammala, Abu Dhabi University

Translating research to commercial products and services: From breast models for surgical education to aerial robotics for infrastructure digitalization

Speaker:
Özge Akbulut, Sabancı Üniversity

Social Innovation

Speaker:
Dr. Hayat Sindi, Institute Of Quality

Exploring Microfluidic and Bioprinting Strategies for Understanding Gum Health and Disease

Speaker:
Sriram Gopu, NUS, Singapore

Heart Repair using stem cells and biomaterials

Speaker:
Carmine Gentile, UTS, Australia

Exploiting nonlinearities of electrostatic MEMS resonators for sensing applications

Speaker:
Mehdi Ghommem, AUS

The history of race as a scientific concept

Speaker:
Prof. David Gresham,  Professor of Biology, Faculty Director of Bioinformatics; Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Science, New York University

The New frontier of Science Discovery: Machine Learning for Science

Speaker:
Simon See, Global Head, Nvidia AI Technology Center

Applying machine learning software for the generative design and operation of bio-regenerative and resilient residential infrastructure and retrofits

Speaker:
James Ehrlich, Director of Compassionate Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Institute (Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education)

Engineering nano-biomaterials for tissue fabrication and regenerative medicine

Speaker:
Prof. Su Ryon Shin, Harvard University

Advancements and Opportunities in Next-Generation MIMO Wireless Communication

Speaker:
Robert Heath, Professor, North Carolina State University

Integrating model and data-driven approaches for high accuracy localization in mmWave networks

Speaker:
Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

A new unified arc-length method for damage mechanics problems (1)

Human blastoid from primed human embryonic stem cells with a non-cell-adhesive hydrogel  (2)

Speaker:
Roshan Philip Saji, NYUAD (1)

Satoshi Imamura, NYUAD (2)

Public health, equity, and ethics in the design and use of data and algorithms

Speaker:
Rumi Chunara, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Health Data Science New York University

Social Entrepreneurship: Building Technology for Good

Speaker:
Ketaki Desai, Cofounder and CEO, Tracer Techstars Mentor

Modeling pedestrian-vehicle interactions using on-road and wearable technology

Speaker:
Linda Boyle, NYU Tandon

Unraveling the Future: A Journey through 3D Bioprinting, Bioinks, and Organ Bioprinting (1)

Electric Forces at Play: Dielectrophoresis for investigating and manipulating biological cells (2)

Speaker:
Gopinathan Janarthanan, NYUAD (1)

Waqas Waheed, NYUAD (2)

Epilepsy Detection at the Edge: Where Machine Learning Meets Patient-Specific Wearable Healthcare

Speaker:
Jerald Yoo, National University of Singapore

Wireless Hybrid Electrical-Acoustic Systems for Body-Machine Interface

Speaker:
Mehdi Kiani, Penn State University

Towards real time information processing systems based on artificial allosteric proteins

Speaker:
Kirill Alexandrov, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

AIoT: Harnessing the scale via distributed learning and fast inference

Speaker:
Nick Freris, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Speaker:
Sidi Bencherif, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

The Banality of Evil Design

Speaker:
Goffredo Puccetti, Associate Professor of Practice of Visual Arts, NYUAD

First Flight from Earth to Mars

Speaker:
Loay Elbasyouni, Blue Origin

Effective Evaluation Practices: Evidence from research on bias and its consequences

Speaker:
Joyce Yen, Director of University of Washington (UW) ADVANCE, University of Washington, USA (KUCARS)

Modeling and Control of Soft Robots with Geometric Mechanics

Speaker:
Federico Renda, Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS)

Speaker:

Abiy Yeshitla, Vice President – ISV Technology & Cloud, EMEA from Oracle

Introducing UN-Habitat work in migration context in Egypt

Speaker:
Rowaida Dweik, Urban Planner Coordinator for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Magnetoelastomers modeling experiments and instabilities

Speaker:
Kostas Danas, Ecole Polytechnique

Discovering Physical Laws via Symbolic Learning

Speaker:
Hao Sun, Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China

Traffic Flow as a Simple Fluid: Towards a Scaling Theory of Urban Congestion

Speaker:
Prof. Jorge Laval, Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

3D Printed Swimming “Microrobots” for Targeted Cargo Transport

Speaker:
Igor S Aronson, Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Speaker:

Jason Cao, Professor of Planning Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Eccentric Engineering

Speaker:
Tega Brain, Industry Associate Professor, NYU Tandon

Speaker:

Tingting Zhu, University of Oxford

Speaker:

John Brigham, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Tips in Designing Good Multidimensional Constellations

Speaker:
Monireh Vamegh, Senior Wireless Research Engineer at Huawei Technologies, Canada

2D materials: MXene applications

Speaker:
Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University

Applied AI in High-Expertise Settings, or Curation as Programming

Speaker:
Bill Howe, University of of Washington, USA

Robot Imagination: Affordance-Based Reasoning about Unknown Objects

Speaker:
Gregory S. Chirikjian, National University of Singapore

Speaker:

Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Professor, University of Maryland, Project Management Center of Excellence at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Impact Loading of 3D Printed Stochastic Cellular Materials

Speaker:
Oraib Al-Ketan, Research Instrumentation Scientist 1 - Advanced Manufacturing, CTP, NYUAD

Bioelectronic sensors: from diagnostics to drug discovery

Speaker:
Anna Maria Pappa, Khalifa University

(1) Cooperative Flight: Towards Autonomous Multi-Agent Aerial Transportation

(2) Biomimetic fracture model of lizard tail autotomy

Speaker:
(1) Dimitrios Chaikalis, NYUAD

(2) Ajymurat Orozaliev, NYUAD

Women in Engineering

Speaker:
Kim Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

Artificial Intelligence and Imaging in the pharmaceutical industry

Speaker:
Arijit Patra, Senior Principal Scientist (Associate Director) in the Data & Translation Sciences group, UCB

(1) A Machine-Learning-Based Neurocognitive Framework to Evaluate the Experience of Haptic Delay

(2) Plasmonic biosensor for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease

Speaker:
(1) Haneen Alsuradi, NYUAD

(2) iGem Team, NYUAD

Human Rights in Scientific Communities

Speaker:
Katepalli Sreenivasan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Describing Ultrasound Visuals by Generating Text with Deep Learning Models

Speaker:
Mohammad Al Sharid, University of Oxford

Virtual or real experience? Does it make a difference in the willingness to pay for automated taxis?

Speaker:
Elisabetta Cherchi, Newcastle University

Strength in Diversity: A BioEngineering Journey

Speaker:
Hala Zreiqat, The University of Sydney

Novel engineered synthetic approaches to innovative BioEngineering

Speaker:
Hala Zreiqat, The University of Sydney

AI meets Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): from signal features to deep learning

Speaker:
Dr. Lev A. Matveev, Senior Scientist at the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Speaker:

Caroline Schauer, Associate Dean for Research, Drexel University, USA

Jointly optimal policies for pavement maintenance, repaving, and reconstruction: a different approach

Speaker:
Craig Richmond, ETH

What is it all for? Designing with Others in Mind

Speaker:
Jessica Rush Leeker, Director of Undergraduate Education and Stephen Dunn Professor of Engineering Management, University of Colorado Boulder and Founder of RL Strategies, USA

Development and clinical application of an injectable biomaterial for regeneration of articular cartilage defects

Speaker:
Dr. Vyacheslav Ogay, National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan

In Memory Computing Architectures for Robot Vision and Computer Vision Applications

Speaker:
Jorge Dias, Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS)

Strength and toughness of brittle metamaterials

Speaker:
Stavros Gaitanaros, John Hopkins University

Smart Cognitive Network Quality of Service, Security and Energy Optimization

Speaker:
Erol Gelenbe, Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Advanced multifunctional fibers - from wearable sensors to organ weaving

Speaker:
Mohsen Akbari, University of Victoria

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

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

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

Speaker:
Haralampos Hatzikirou, Khalifa University, UAE

Dr. Mireille Elhajj  |  Dependency of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
Astra-Terra Ltd., UK

H. Vincent Poor  |  Towards 6G Wireless Communication Networks: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and New Paradigm Shifts (IEEE Distinguished Seminar Series)
Princeton University, USA

Khulood Alawadi  |  Design Practice for Wicked Problems
NYU Abu Dhabi

Asimina Kazakidi  |  The contribution of computational biofluid mechanics in cardiovascular problems
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Mohammad Qasaimeh   |  Lab-on-a-Tip Microfluidic Probes for Single Cell Analysis, Separations, and Manipulations
NYU Abu Dhabi

Dr. Saad Jasim  |  Impacts of Climate Change on Water Systems
SJ Environmental Consultants (Windsor) Inc., Canada

Jeremy Teo  |  (Immuno) Mechanobiology of Immune Cells
NYU Abu Dhabi

K.R. Sreenivasan  |  Massive Simulations of 3D Navier-Stokes Turbulence
New York University

Tilo Pompe  |  Mimicking physiological and pathological situations in 3D biopolymer-based matrices in vitro
Leipzig University

Marten van Dijk   |  Buffer Zones for Defending against Adversarial Examples in Image Classification
University of Connecticut

Antonio Adán Oliver  |  Automatic extraction of semantic models of buildings with robots
3D Visual Computing & Robotics Lab, Castilla La Mancha University

Ahmed Elwakil  |  Modeling Biological Tissues Using Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy
University of Sharjah

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

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Nigel Wilson
Title: Using Automated Data Sources to improve the performance of Public Transport Systems: a framework and applications

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Mihai Sanduleanu
Title: CMOS Integrated Transceivers for mm-Waves and Broadband Communications

Engineering Seminar Series  |  S. Feyza Cinicioglu 
Title: Geotechnical Failures and Likelihood of Prevention

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Oliver Otto  
Title: Label-free cytometry in virtual fluidic channels: high-throughput single-cell rheology and tissue mechanics

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
Title: Is it Logic or Memory? - Blurring the Gap

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Nektarios Tsoutsos
Title: Building Zero Knowledge Proofs for any Application

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Guido Gerig
Title: Computer vision/medical image analysis, clinical studies

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Fan Zhu
Title: Research and Development of Computer Vision in UAE

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Pinar Menguc
Energy Efficiency as a Transdisciplinary Concept: Research and Applications

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Timothy Wangler
Digital Concrete: Material and Processing Challenges

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Magdi Mohareb
Modern finite element tools for lateral-torsional buckling analysis

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Ali Asghar Bhagat
Medical Device Translation and Commercialization

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Dr. Hemant Unadkat
Materiomics for Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Dr. Ali K. Okyay
In-Situ Monitoring of Plasma-ALD Processes for III-nitrides and Emerging Semiconductor Materials

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Dr. Niti Dhutia
A Love-Hate Relationship: Machine Learning and the Cloud

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Ibrahim (Abe) M. Elfadel
Title: A Love-Hate Relationship: Machine Learning and the Cloud

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Mohamed Omar Abdelgawad
Title: Microfluidics Tools for Reproductive Health

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Mohamed Omar Abdelgawad
Title: Microfluidics Tools for Reproductive Health

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Tuka Hanai    
Title: Detecting Cognitive Impairment from Spoken Language

Dyson Workshop |  Hwasoo Yeo
Title: Innovation in Engineering & Design

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Hwasoo Yeo
Title: How to Build Smart City from Infrastructure Engineering Perspectives

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Agostino Gibaldi
Title: The visual system and the natural environment: perceptual, behavioral and computational advances

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Janaka Wansapura
Title: Non-invasive assessment of Fibrosis

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Deji Akinwande
Title: Graphene Electronic Tattoo Sensors

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Mohammed Zourob
Title: An Integrated and Ultrasensitive Biosensors and Diagnostic Tools for Biomedical Applications

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Zhibin Chen
Title: A Cost-Competitiveness Analysis of Charging Infrastructure for Electric Bus Operations

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Dario Martelli
Title: Innovative solutions to reduce the risk of falling

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Khalil Ramadi
Title: Microinvasive modulation of neural physiology

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Halil Sezen
Title: Performance Assessment and Sustainability of Structures

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Muhammad Shafique
Title: Towards Extreme Energy-Efficiency with Brain-Inspired Computing: From Approximate Computing to Neural Processing

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Dimitrios Milioris
Title: Positioning based on Probabilistic Methods, Sensing and Learning

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Shadi Hassan
Title: Revolution and advancements of electrically enhanced membrane bioreactor (eMBR) for wastewater treatment and water reuse

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Arnab Chanda
Title: Biomechanical Testing of Soft Tissue Damage Interventions

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Wenzhi Liao
Title: Data mining and fusion for image analysis and interpretation

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Ismail Ben Mabrouk
Title: On the Performance of Radio Communications in Underground Gold Mines

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Aissa Ikhlef 
Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Future Wireless Networks: 5G and Beyond

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Chao Liu
Title: Desalinated seawaters in distribution systems: Formation of disinfection by-products and mitigation of toxicity

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Jian Li 
Title: Learning to cache: Accuracy or Speed

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Antonio Franchi
Title: Aerial Robotics: Novel Design Control Methods for Enabling Physical InteractiveTasks in Real World

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Muataz Atieh 
Title: Nano-Materials for Water Treatment and Desalination

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Eliseo Ferrante
Title: Swarm robotics: Designing scalable self-organized collective robotic platforms that combine the strengths of engineered and biological systems

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Kemal Celebi
Title: 2D Materials for Membrane Separations and Functional Coatings

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Greg Cashion
Title: Top 10 things all engineers need to know about construction law

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman
Title: 3D Printing and Bioprinting for Tissue Engineering Applications

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

Engineering Seminar Series |  Debjani Paul
Title:  Microfluidic devices for blood analysis

Engineering Seminar Series |   Mahmoud I. Hussein
Title: Phononics: An Emerging Field Targeting Structural Dynamics of Materials and Beyond

Engineering Seminar Series |  Paulo Montiero
Title: Multiscale X-Ray Tomography of Concrete

Engineering Seminar Series |   Bhargab Bhattacharya
Title: Design of Free-Flowing Lab-on-Chip with 3D Microfluidic Network for Sample Preparation

Engineering Seminar Series |  Khalil Ramadi
Title: Minimally invasive neural drug delivery: a window to a future of precision medicine

Engineering Seminar Series |  Michalis Vlachos
Title: Interpretable Machine Learning with Applications in B2B Recommender Systems

Engineering Seminar Series |  Ehab El-Sadaany
Title: Embedded Distributed Energy Resources; A Problematic Solution

Engineering Seminar Series |   Mohamed Al-Fandi
Title: Toward Smart Micro/Nano Systems

Engineering Seminar Series |  Baker Mohammad
Title: Memristor: A new Paradigm in Electronics Computing, Sensing and Memory

Engineering Seminar Series |   Cesare Stefanini
Title: Healthcare Engineering Innovation within Khalifa University and the UAE ecosystem

Engineering Seminar Series |  Sanjeeva Weerawarana
Title: Ballerina: A Modern Programming Language Focused on Integration

Engineering Seminar Series |  Hicham Chatila
Title: Connectivity Analysis for Non-Motorized Transport

Engineering Seminar Series |  Athanasios (Thanasis) Triantafyllou
Title: Advanced Composite Materials and Structures: Past, Present and Future Challenges

Engineering Seminar Series  |  Hamid Abderrahmane
Title: Swirling flow in bucket paradigm

Engineering Seminar Series  |  TieJun Zhang (TJ)
Title: Enhancing Light-Heat-Fluid Transport by Tailoring Optical and Wetting Properties of Surfaces presented

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Roozbeh Jafari

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Xiangliang Zhang

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Ali AlQassim

11th International Conference on Plasma Assisted Technologies (ICPAT-11)
Convened by
Philip K. Panicker, Senior Lecturer Mechanical Engineering, NYUAD

Theory and Modern Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics: In Memory of Ali H. Nayfeh
Convened by
Mohammed Daqaq, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, NYUAD

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Prof. Mahmoud I. Hussain

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Imran Akhtar

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: SeongHwan Cho

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Hassan Arafat

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Osama Abdullah

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Julian Garnder

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Ozge Akbulut

Joint Cyber Security Center and Engineering Division Seminar Series
Speaker: Chengmo Yangi

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Vassos Soteriou

Engineering Industry Advisory Council Meeting
Speaker: Industry Advisory Council Members

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: David Brownstone

3rd NYUAD Transportation Symposium
 

Engineering Seminar Series
Speaker: Pantelis Georgiou