Faculty

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

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

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...

Borja García de Soto, Assistant 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...

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

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...

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

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: BS Ain Sham University, Egypt; MS University of California, Berkeley; PhD University of California, ...

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

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...

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

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

Research Interests: Advanced Structural Materials; Innovative Retrofitting of Structures