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  • Tarek Abdoun, Program Head of Civil and Urban Engineering; Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: tarek.abdoun@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York

  • Fares Abu-Dakka, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: fa2656@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD, Polytechnic University of Valencia

    Research Interests: Robot learning; geometric control; learning from demonstration; physical interactions

  • Khulood Alawadi, Lecturer of Engineering Design Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: khulood.alawadi@nyu.edu
    Education: MSc Imperial College London, MA Royal College of Art

    Research Interests: Human-centered design; ethnographic design research; women in design; forecasting for design futures...

  • Tuka Waddah Alhanai, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: tuka.alhanai@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: Computer-Human Intelligence

  • Kemal Celik, Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kemal.celik@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, Berkeley

    Research Interests: Construction materials, energy efficiency, sustainable and functional structural materials

  • Marwa Chafii, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: marwa.chafii@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD CentraleSupélec

    Research Interests: Wireless Communications; Integrated Sensing and Communication; Waveform Design; Localization

  • Elisabetta Cherchi, Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: elisabetta.cherchi@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Cagliari, Italy

    Research Interests: Modelling transport consumers behaviour and decision making process

  • Mohammed Daqaq, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mfd6@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Virginia Tech

    Research Interests: application of nonlinear phenomena to improve the performance of micro-power generation systems, mic...

  • Ali Diabat, Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: Diabat@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Purdue University

    Research Interests: optimization and operations, logistics, supply chain management, healthcare management, production p...

  • Mohamad Eid, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mae8@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Ottawa

    Research Interests: haptics, multi-modal human computer interaction, gaming, biofeedback technologies

  • Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Visiting Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: he2244@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Karlsruhe (TH)

    Research Interests: Facial image processing; biometrics; computer vision; machine learning; deep learning

  • Waleed El-Sekelly, Visiting Associate Professor Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: we20@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY

    Research Interests: Experimental modeling; geotechnical centrifuge; numerical modeling; soil dynamics; liquefaction eval...

  • Yi Fang, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering; Associate Professor of Computer Science (Affiliated) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: yf23@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Purdue University

    Research Interests: 3D Computer Vision, Multimedia Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

  • Borja García de Soto, Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: garcia.de.soto@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich

    Research Interests: construction automation, cybersecurity in the AEC industry, artificial intelligence, lean constructi...

  • Pradeep George, Clinical Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Coordinator of Engineering Capstone Design Projects Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: pradeep.george@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rutgers University

    Research Interests: computational modeling and optimization

  • Andras Gyorgy, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: ag6378@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: networked dynamical systems

  • Sohmyung Ha, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sohmyung@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California San Diego

    Research Interests: Biomedical circuits and sensors for implantable and wearable applications

  • Raed Hashaikeh, Program Head of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: rh143@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD McGill University

    Research Interests: Advanced Materials, Nanofibers, Membranes, Desalination

  • Nidal Hilal, Professor of Engineering; Director of NYUAD Water Research Center Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: nidal.hilal@nyu.edu
    Education: DSc University of Wales; PhD Swansea University

    Research Interests: Desalination; water treatment; membrane technology

  • Saif Jabari, Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sej7@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Research Interests: data analysis, theoretical traffic flow modeling

  • Ramesh Jagannathan, Research Professor of Engineering; Managing Director of StartAD Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: rj31@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Clarkson University

    Research Interests: entrepreneurial technology

  • Daniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: djj2026@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Nottingham

    Research Interests: Water treatment, wastewater treatment, membrane technology, atomic force microscopy, colloid and int...

  • Margaret Julias, Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mj67@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rutgers University

  • Ken-ichiro Kamei, Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Biology and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kk4801@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: Stem Cell Biology; Organs-on-a-Chip; Nano/microtechnology; Drug discovery; Regenerative medicine

  • Nikolaos Karathanasopoulos, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: n.karathanasopoulos@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich

    Research Interests: Structural Mechanics; Advanced Materials and Structures; Scientific Computing

  • Matthew Karau, Director of the Engineering Design Studio; Senior Lecturer of Engineering Design Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mkarau@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: interactive systems

  • Safiya Khalil Alhashmi, Assistant Professor Emerging Scholar of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: safiya.alhashmi@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rice University

    Research Interests: Materials and nanoscience; energy and sustainability

  • Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kk4812@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Research Interests: Robotics; Autonomous Systems; Automatic Control

  • Sunil Kumar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sunil.kumar@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, Berkeley

    Research Interests: Transport of light and thermal radiation

  • Samer Madanat, Dean of Engineering; Program Head of Urbanization; Global Network Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: smm17@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: transportation infrastructure management

  • Michail Maniatakos, Program Head of Computer Engineering; Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mm6446@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Yale University

    Research Interests: computer architecture, systems security

  • Monica Menendez, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs; Director of the Research Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES); Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: monica.menendez@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, Berkeley

    Research Interests: monitoring, modeling, and control of multimodal transportation systems, considering new technologies...

  • Mostafa Mobasher, Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mostafa.mobasher@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Columbia University

    Research Interests: Computational methods; fracture mechanics; finite elements; multiphysics, material modeling

  • Mohamed Moustafa, Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mohamed.moustafa@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, Berkeley

    Research Interests: Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC); accelerated bridge construction (ABC); vision-based structur...

  • Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: qurrat.nadeem@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

    Research Interests: Wireless communications; signal processing; massive MIMO; programmable metasurface applications

  • Mohammad Qasaimeh, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Associate Director of Faculty Scholarship Development Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: maq4@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD McGill University

    Research Interests: microfluidic and MEMS devices for biomedical applications, point of care diagnostics

  • Khalil Ramadi, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kramadi@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: Neuroengineering; Translational Medicine; Medical Devices; Drug delivery

  • Mahmoud Rasras, Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mr5098@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Catholic University of Leuven

    Research Interests: Photonic components for next-generation optical and microwave photonic networks

  • Je Ir Ryu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: jryu@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, Berkeley

    Research Interests: Aerospace Propulsion; Energy Science; Reactive Flows; Combustion; Detonation; Hypersonics; High-Per...

  • Vijayavenkataraman Sanjairaj, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: vs89@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD National University of Singapore

    Research Interests: 3D Printing and bioprinting for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug testing, and medical...

  • Muhammad Shafique, Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: muhammad.shafique@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Research Interests: Brain-inspired Computing, Embedded Machine Learning and AI, Energy-Efficient Computing, Robust Compu...

  • Khaled Shahin, Clinical Associate Professor of Civil & Urban Engineering; Coordinator of Engineering Assessment Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kos3@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Dalhousie University

    Research Interests: computational structural mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics of adhesively bonded joints, mech...

  • Farah Emad Shamout, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: fs999@nyu.edu
    Education: DPhil University of Oxford

    Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Science, Applications in Healthcare

  • Sandra Siby, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sandra.siby@nyu.com
    Education: PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

    Research Interests: Cybersecurity; privacy

  • Ozgur Sinanoglu, Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Director, Center for Cyber Security; Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: ozgursin@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, San Diego

    Research Interests: Hardware Security

  • Yong Rafael Song, Program Head of Bioengineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: ys50@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University (RWTH), Aachen, Germany

    Research Interests: design and manufacturing of MEMS devices, fluid mechanics, micro/nanofabrication

  • Rita Leal Sousa, Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: rita.sousa@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Research Interests: Tunneling automation, natural threat risk assessment, soil erosion, stochastic modeling

  • Jeremy Teo, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: jeremy.teo@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD National University of Singapore

    Research Interests: immune-mechanobiology, biomaterials, biomimetic in vitro system, space immunology, bioartificial org...

  • Anthony Tzes, Alan Howard Distinguished Professor in Artificial Intelligence; Program Head, Electrical Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: anthony.tzes@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Ohio State University

    Research Interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles, surgical robots, mechatronics, control engineering

  • Murat Uysal, Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: murat.uysal@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Texas A&M University

    Research Interests: Communication theory; Wireless communications; Optical communications

  • Azhar Zam, Associate Professor of Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: azhar.zam@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

    Research Interests: Medical Imaging; Biomedical Optics, Biomedical Spectroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Pho...