Faculty
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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