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

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.edu
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...