Faculty

Tarek Abdoun, Global Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tarek.abdoun@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY; MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY

Hoda Al Khzaimi, Research Assistant Professor, Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ha59@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble; PhD, Danm...

Research Interests: cryptology

Tuka Waddah Alhanai, Assistant Professor/Emerging Scholar Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tuka.alhanai@nyu.edu
Education: BS The Petroleum Institute; MS, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Computer-Human Intelligence

Felix Hardmood Beck, Assistant Professor of Practice of Design Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: felix.beck@nyu.edu
Education: Meisterschüler, University of the Arts Berlin; Diplom, University of the Arts Berlin

Research Interests: design, user-experience

Kemal Celik, Assistant 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

Mohammed Daqaq, Program Head, Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mfd6@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Tech (2003); PhD, Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Tech (2006)

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: MSc, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, North Carolina State University; PhD, Industria...

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

Mohamad Eid, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer 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

Yi Fang, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 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, Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: garcia.de.soto@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of California at Berkeley; PhD ETH Zurich

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

Pradeep George, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Engineering Capstone Design Projects Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pradeep.george@nyu.edu
Education: MS and PhD, Rutgers University

Research Interests: computational modeling and optimization

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

Research Interests: networked dynamical systems

Sohmyung Ha, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sohmyung@nyu.edu
Education: MS in Electrical Engineering, KAIST; MS and PhD in Bioengineering, UC San Diego

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

Hamidou Tembine, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ht36@nyu.edu
Education: PhD INRIA and University of Avignon

Research Interests: evolutionary games, mean-field stochastic games, distributed strategic learning

Raed Hashaikeh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rh143@nyu.edu
Education: MSc and PhD McGill University

Research Interests: Advanced Materials, Nanofibers, Membranes, Desalination

Nidal Hilal, Professor of Engineering and 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, Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sej7@nyu.edu
Education: MS and PhD University of Minnesota Twin Cities;

Research Interests: data analysis, theoretical traffic flow modeling

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

Research Interests: entrepreneurial technology

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

Matthew Karau, Lecturer of Engineering Design Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mkarau@nyu.edu
Education: BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA,...

Research Interests: interactive systems

Sunil Kumar, Vice Provost of Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs, Global Network Professor of Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sunil.kumar@nyu.edu
Education: University of California at Berkeley, Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: transport of light and thermal radiation

Samer Madanat, Dean of Engineering, NYUAD; Global Network Professor of Engineering, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: smm17@nyu.edu
Education: MS and PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests: transportation infrastructure management

Michail Maniatakos, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm6446@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, University of Piraeus, Greece; MSc, MPhil, and PhD, Yale University

Research Interests: computer architecture, systems security

Monica Menendez, Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering and Director of the Research Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: monica.menendez@nyu.edu
Education: MSc and PhD, UC Berkeley

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

Philip Panicker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Engineering Academic Laboratories Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pkp3@nyu.edu
Education: MS and PhD, University of Texas, Arlington

Research Interests: waste-to-energy conversion, CubeSats, experimental gas dynamics, supersonic and hypersonic aerodynam...

Mohammad Qasaimeh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: maq4@nyu.edu
Education: MASc, Concordia University; PhD, McGill University

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

Mahmoud Rasras, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer 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

Vijayavenkataraman Sanjairaj, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vs89@nyu.edu
Education: B Eng College of Engineering Guindy; PhD National University of Singapore

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

Khaled Shahin, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Engineering Assessment Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kos3@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Civil Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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

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

Research Interests: Machine Learning in Healthcare; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence

Ozgur Sinanoglu, Associate Dean of Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Center of Cyber Security Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ozgursin@nyu.edu
Education: MS and PhD, The University of California San Diego

Research Interests: design-for-test, design-for-security, design for trust for VLSI circuits

Yong Rafael Song, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ys50@nyu.edu
Education: MS and PhD, RWTH Aachen University of Technology, Germany

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

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

Research Interests: immune-mechanobiology, biomaterials, biomimetic in vitro system, bioartificial organs

Athanasios Triantafyllou, Visiting Global Distinguished Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: thanasis.triantafillou@nyu.edu
Education: Diploma University of Patras; MSc , PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Advanced Structural Materials; Innovative Retrofitting of Structures

Anthony Tzes, Program Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: anthony.tzes@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, PhD The Ohio State University

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