Mohamad Eid
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD University of Ottawa
Research Websites: Applied Interactive Multimedia Laboratory
Research Areas: haptics, multi-modal human computer interaction, gaming, biofeedback technologies
Mohamad Eid is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the Applied Interactive Multimedia Research Lab (AIMLab) at New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2010. He was previously a teaching and research associate at the University of Ottawa from June 2008 until April 2012.
Eid is the co-author of the book: Haptics Technologies: Bringing Touch to Multimedia, Springers 2011. He is the recipient of several best paper awards in several international conferences such as ICBAE 2016, DS-RT 2008 and the ACM Multimedia 2009 Grand Challenge Most Entertaining Award. He has more than 140 conference and journal publications and five patents. He is an editor at the IEEE Transactions on Haptics journal and a guest editor in several journals related to haptics. His academic interests include EEG-based neurohaptics, affective haptics, and soft haptics.